BSA Images Of The Week: 08.02.26

Welcome to BSA’s Images of the Week. It’s all across the globe these days, and we’re happy to show it to you.

There are interesting and captivating stories about street art and graffiti unfolding around the world right now, including three temporary murals in London, Bristol, and Reading by Luke Embden, created with St Mungo’s to share the experiences of people who have moved beyond homelessness. QR codes incorporated into the works allow the people portrayed to tell their stories in their own voices. Read the Guardian article.

In Malmö, Meeting of Styles gathered graffiti writers and other artists at the city’s former ferry terminal under the theme “Togetherness.” The international gathering combined live painting with music, skateboarding, comics, and other elements of street culture. Read about Meeting of Styles Malmö.

Weston Wallz returned to Weston-super-Mare for its sixth edition, bringing 20 new large-scale murals to the English seaside town. The ten-day festival concluded with live painting, workshops, street-art tours, and a public paint jam in the Italian Gardens. Read here.

In Miami, graffiti writer AES, also known as The Miracle Ghost, opened Partners in Crime at Central Command Gallery. The exhibition looks at the friendships, lookouts, risks, and unpredictable encounters surrounding illegal nighttime painting. Read the Axios Miami article.

Along New York’s Empire State Trail in Rotterdam Junction, Jade Warrick joined her siblings Zoë, Quill, and Shalom Harrison for their first complete mural collaboration. The tunnel-length work brings together their individual approaches to figures, animals, plants, and storytelling while reflecting the ecology and people encountered along the trail. Read the Times Union article.

In Covilhã, Portugal, WOOL celebrated its fifteenth anniversary with work by Tellas, Addam Yekutieli, Ben Johnston, Octavi Serra, Mariana, a miserável, Projeto Ruído, Nasarimba, and others. The festival continues to distinguish itself by asking artists to research the former textile city and create work in conversation with its architecture, landscape, residents, language, and collective memory. Read the illustrated WOOL 2026 report.

And here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Atomik, Barb Tropolis, Ben Keller, Caty Wooley, El Toro, EX Vandals, EXR, Half Tone, HUETEK, Jason Naylor, Klonism, Laser Cats, Miki Mu, Modomatic, Mort, Muebon, Nandos, Phetus, Question Marks, Spazz Rabbits, and Tiffy Paints.

Ben Keller for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tiffy Paints for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Klonism for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Modomatic for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HUETEK for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
EXR for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Caty Wooley for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Muebon & Atomik for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Miki Mu for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Spazz Rabbits for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Naylor for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mort for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nandos for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Half Tone for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Question Marks. EX Vandals for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Phetus for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
El Toro for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Barb Tropolis for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Laser Cats for East New York Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)