Digbeth street art on Fazeley Street from the High Vis Street Culture Festival in 2023

The 2023 High Vis Street Culture Festival was held in Digbeth around Fazeley Street during the weekend of the 12th and 13th August. Although after those dates, other artists such as Annatomix added pieces a few weeks after the event. There is the street art house at 82 Fazeley Street, and the buildings behind towards New Canal Street. This was the 50th Hip Hop anniversary.

High Vis Street Culture Festival during the weekend of the 12th and 13th August 2023 celebrated the 50th annivesary of Hip Hop.

Here are some the great street art found in Digbeth on the 15th and 22nd August 2023.

 

Don't Sleep by Poser on Floodgate Street, Digbeth

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In the Ether by Rude Brown Dude on Little Ann Street, Digbeth

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A starfield with a planet on Bordesley Street in Digbeth

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The street art house at 82 Fazeley Street, corner of Andover Street, had been completely repainted, for the first time since 2015.

This is now called The Printmaker's Arms according to the High Vis Street Culture Festival.

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About a week later the Andover Street side of The Printmaker's Arms was looking finished.  You could even see it from the Digbeth Branch Canal!

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Most of the street art was to be seen on Fazeley Street in Digbeth.

The main piece was the Tempo 33 face that he normally paints all over Birmingham.

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A week later, Annatomix had added some art.

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The Annatomix crab.

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Woman by Crysista Sim Simma.

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A week later, the space had been filled below NFAZ and High Vis 50 years of Hip-Hop! Annatomix to the right.

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Container with eyes and rep lips with lipstick?

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Caravan painted by Scotford Wilds.

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The Print Makers. The caravan from the week before had now moved.

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A cartoon cat with a mask on by Pojek.

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First look at Miscfit on the shutter.

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Miscfit again, one week later.

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On the shutters of William Marston Ltd on Fazeley Street was a ghost with a torch.

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On the William Marston Ltd building on Fazeley Street as a green headed figure with purple top by VCT.

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Purple grapes and more art on William Marston Ltd, corner of Fazeley Street and New Canal Street.

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Purple grapes on William Marston Ltd again a week later, this time from New Bartholomew Street.

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Rude Brown Dude on the railway viaduct between New Canal Street and New Bartholomew Street. HS2 has now fenced off the road towards Curzon Street.

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Photography courtesy Elliott Brown