NUART FESTIVAL

In May's newsletter, I look at text-based street art, and how bringing language into the streets reshapes our relationship with public space.

Read it here: https://giuliablocalblog.substack.com/p/poetry-is-in-the-streets

Nuart Aberdeen NUART FESTIVAL

Jofre Oliveras for Nuart Aberdeen 2022, produced on the car park at the side of Aberdeen’s Mosque thanks to the wonderful support of the local Imam. A powerful critique on how power uses and abuses “flag nationalism” to manipulate the populace into a state of fear and anxiety of “the other”, blinded by the flag into ignorance. Last three slides, new from Banksy 2026. Same but different, much like us ourselves. .oliveras

Hundreds of of works, poems, projects and events went up over the last 14 days of Nuart and yet it was this little innocuous gem down a side alley off a main through road between an Indian restaurant and a lapdance club that resonated most with me today. A glimmer in a sea of triggers. The only solution, F**k Art, Let’s Dance, tonight at Exodus between 11-3pm for sad souls in need of a dance !

Loving this project in Aberdeen ! Students recreating their favourite Nuart murals with and more

Nuart Plus at Nuart Aberdeen 2026: Beyond the Walls • Inspiring City From poetry to pub debates, Nuart Plus at Nuart Aberdeen 2026 offers talks, tours and events that go beyond the walls of street art.

From the ever expanding archive of writing on the walls, the publishers of outsiders, the poor, the marginalised and the weird. One of these is my own, but which one ?

Beautiful shot of the work off Union Street in Aberdeen from our friend at . Produced and planted in 2018, took a few years to reach the desired effect of a living mural but wow, what a result.

Nuart Aberdeen returns later this month April 22-26th check out sister account on

Nuart Aberdeen 2026: How text-based street art is reshaping culture. ⋆ BLocal | Street Art Travel Guides Nuart Aberdeen 2026 returns with a bold focus on text-based street art, challenging mural culture and rethinking who gets to shape the city’s walls.

CONCEPT GRAFFITI

How to create cognitive dissonance amongst the cultural “elite” and professional managerial class who adore and celebrate “high art” culture and would die on the alter of Rothko whilst looking away when graffiti writers are arrested, fined and imprisoned.

Would you buff a Marina Abramoviĉ tag ? A Dostoevsky throw up ? A Keith Haring piece ?