Shoreditch Street Art Tour London: Brick Lane & Murals

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Duration3h

GroupUp to 20

LanguagesEN

Mobile ticketAccepted

Spray paint and stencils cover three-story walls in Shoreditch—and someone knows every artist's name

You walk Brick Lane and the surrounding Shoreditch streets with a guide who has been leading these tours since 2008 and knows the artists, the methods, and the stories behind every major piece. The tour includes Old Spitalfields Market as a meeting point, a route through side streets most tourists miss, and a post-tour email with photos and details specific to what you saw that day. Expect to spend a few hours on foot, stopping frequently to look up, down, and across at work ranging from tiny stickers to three-story murals.

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Shoreditch street art highlights

Meet at Old Spitalfields Market
Walk to Brick Lane via side streets
View street art on Brick Lane
Explore street art in Shoreditch
Learn about artists and techniques

The Experience

Hands move across brick. A stencil held steady, paint hissing through the gaps, a tag left behind in silver or gold. You're standing on a Shoreditch side street watching Dave, the guide, point out a piece that went up maybe yesterday—maybe this morning. He's been running these tours since 2008, longer than anyone else doing street art in London, and he can read the walls like most people read a menu. The Shoreditch street art scene changes constantly, which is why the tour itself changes. You meet at Old Spitalfields Market and walk toward Brick Lane through streets most visitors never find, stopping at locations where the art ranges from tiny bronze castings at ankle height to murals that climb three stories.

What makes this different from wandering Brick Lane on your own is that Dave doesn't just point and move on. He identifies the artist, explains the method—whether it's a huge spray piece, a hand-cut stencil, or a paste-up—and tells you the story behind it. He's spent nearly twenty years immersed in this culture, writing about it, photographing it, critiquing it. When you see a brand new piece, something that might only be hours old, he can still place it in the context of what's happening in the scene right now. The tour keeps moving up into Shoreditch proper, where the density of work gets even heavier and the conversation shifts from technique to the artists themselves, the crews, the territorial markers, the inside jokes that live on walls.

After the walk ends, you get an email with photos and information about each piece you saw that day—not a generic handout, but something prepared specifically for your tour's date and route. It's the kind of detail that sticks with you later when you're scrolling through your photos and wondering who did that piece or what the tag meant. The whole thing runs on foot through accessible streets, and the pace suits all fitness levels, so you're not racing or waiting around.

What’s included

Your tour includes a professional expert guide who specializes in street art, a walking route starting at Old Spitalfields Market and moving through Brick Lane and Shoreditch's side streets, and a unique post-tour email with photos and information about each piece you saw that day, prepared specifically for your tour date.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by Shoreditch Street Art Tours

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to understand the Shoreditch street art scene beyond what you'd see walking alone—the guide's twenty years in the culture means you get the artist names, the methods, the stories, and the context that turn walls into a conversation instead of just decoration.