Street art across Birmingham - mapped for you
In and around Birmingham, there is some great street art to enjoy.
Explore this map and our feature for just a selection of the wonderful street art on offer. Use the map to plan where to go or enjoy it with us here.
Note: Street art can get painted over and replaced and there is no guarantee that it will be there if you visit.
Street art in Digbeth
Digbeth is renowned for its street art and has attracted a number of extremely talented artists to showcase their art and creativity. Digbeth is home to the High Viz Street Culture Festival and the City of Colours Festival.
Black Sabbath
Location: In the short stay car park of Birmingham Coach Station, Rea Street, Digbeth.
Artist: N4T4 and Wingy.
Description: Painted in 2019 during the 50th Anniversary of Black Sabbath, during the High Viz Street Culture Festival.
dndimg alt="" dndsrc="../uploadedfiles/Black Sabbath Bham Coach Station (Oct 2019).jpg" style="width: 100%;" />Photography by Elliott Brown
Google Maps Street View - Rea St
Co-ordinates: 52.47471036278989, -1.8885750864166637
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
Location: The Paper Mill, Allison Street, Digbeth (inside a car park).
Artist: Unknown
Description: Depicts Dr Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, a pair of US Civil Rights leaders during the 1960s, who were both assassinated. Possibly painted in 2019 for the High Viz Street Culture Festival. This was before the Black Lives Matter movement that started in 2020, after a Police officer killed George Floyd in the USA. There is other political street art in here including former US President Donald Trump, plus former UK PM's David Cameron and Theresa May.
dndimg alt="Martin Luther King and Malcolm X" dndsrc="../uploadedfiles/MLK and MX Digbeth (Sep 2019).jpg" style="width: 100%;" />Photography by Elliott Brown
Google Maps Street View - Allison St
Co-ordinates: 52.477078142706745, -1.8897963145198369
Forward in Unity
Location: Nortons beer garden on Meriden Street, Digbeth.
Artist: Gent 48.
Description: Painted during the first year of the Coronavirus Pandemic by Gent 48 in 2020. It was commissioned by Paul Cadman for Art 4 Charity. It resembles the Coronavirus being fought by the NHS, the Police, firemen, who are all real superheroes. The mural has since been turned into a book with signatures, including Gent 48 himself!
dndimg alt="Forward in Unity" dndsrc="https://www.yourplaceyourspace.net/uploadedfiles/Gent48 Forward in Unity (July 2020) (2).jpg" style="width: 100%;" />Photography by Elliott Brown
Google Maps Street View - Meriden St
Co-ordinates: 52.47710679118819, -1.88945191507358
Bird's Custard
Location: Side wall of Fazeley Studios, Floodgate Street, Digbeth.
Artist: Seven 9 Signs
Description: Looks like a tin of Bird's Custard Powder. Points the direction to the Custard Factory, where eggless custard was manufactured on that site until 1963, by Alfred Bird & Sons.
dndimg alt="Bird's Custard" dndsrc="../uploadedfiles/Birds Custard (Feb 2020).jpg" style="width: 100%;" />
Photography by Elliott Brown
Google Maps Street View - Floodgate St
Co-ordinates: 52.477306844642136, -1.882268268892536
Marvel Spider-Man
Location: Custard Factory Car Park (near Heath Mill Lane and Lower Trinity Street), Digbeth.
Artist: Jim Vision
Description: Painted in 2018 around the time that the Marvel Spider-Man game was being launched on the Sony Playstation 4. The game was later remastered in 2020 for the new Sony Playstation 5. Painted for the HiViz Festival.
dndimg alt="Marvel Spider-Man PS4" dndsrc="../uploadedfiles/Lower Trinity St Digbeth SpiderMan (Sept 2018).jpg" style="width: 100%;" />Photography by Elliott Brown
Google Maps Street View - Custard Factory Car Park
Co-ordinates: 52.47540435700964, -1.881377469303182
Abstract Semi Circle
Location: Proof House Junction of the Grand Union Canal (Digbeth Branch) and the Digbeth Branch Canal.
Artist: Lucy McLauchlan.
Description: It is under the disused Proof House Railway Bridge. In Lucy McLauchlan's distinctive art style of grey, white and black swirls in a semi circle, opposite the canal towpath. The canal here was formerly the Warwick & Birmingham Canal, but is now part of the Grand Union Canal.
dndimg alt="Grand Union Lucy" dndsrc="https://www.yourplaceyourspace.net/uploadedfiles/Grand Union Digbeth Lucy McLauchlan (Feb 2018) (2).jpg" style="width: 100%;" />Photography by Elliott Brown
Google Maps Street View - Proof House Junction
Co-ordinates: 52.48011990320871, -1.8839594857713575
Street art in Southside
Bowie
Location: Dudley Street, Southside (opposite Edgbaston Street). Close to being under the Smallbrook Queensway Bridge.
Artist: Annatomix.
Description: Famed popstar David Bowie passed away in 2016. Annatomix painted her original Bowie artwork here shortly after that. But it kept getting vandalised. She repainted Bowie in a different design in 2019. More vandalism in 2020, led to her making a repair with a blindfold over Bowie's eyes.
dndimg alt="Annatomix Bowie" dndsrc="https://www.yourplaceyourspace.net/uploadedfiles/Annatomix Bowie (Feb 2020) (1).jpg" style="width: 100%;" />Photography by Elliott Brown
Google Maps Street View - Dudley St
Co-ordinates: 52.476333395707464, -1.8966260612490133
Love is Love
Location: Nightingale Bar, corner of Kent Street and Lower Essex Street.
Artist: Inkie
Description: A woman with long flowing rainbow hair in the Gay Village, part of Southside. There is more street art to the right on Kent Street. Painted here in 2017.
dndimg alt="Nightingale" dndsrc="../uploadedfiles/Gay Village Kent St (Dec 2017) (1).JPG" style="width: 100%;" />Photography by Elliott Brown
Google Maps Street View - Kent St
Co-ordinates: 52.4725526555764, -1.896230195888382
Street art in Bordesley
Captain "Terminator" America
Location: On wasteland, High Street, Bordesley.
Artist: The Forty Eights.
Description: It resembles Marvel's Captain America as a Terminator T-800 Endoskelton, or pehaps a zombie.
dndimg alt="Captain Terminator America" dndsrc="../uploadedfiles/Captain America Terminator Digbeth (Aug 2011).JPG" style="width: 100%;" />Photography by Elliott Brown
Google Maps Street View - High St Bordesley
Co-ordinates: 52.473196117439805, -1.8792848641522124
Street art in the Jewellery Quarter
Christmas Reindeer
Location: On the railway wall on Vyse Street, Jewellery Quarter (to the right of Jewellery Quarter Station).
Artist: Banksy.
Description: A Christmas reindeer highlighting the issue of homelessness, some people would pose on the bench on the left, as a sleigh. Painted in December 2019. Network Rail protected the piece with perspex. Someone shortly afterwards painted red noses onto it, or splashed paint onto the perspex, but Network Rail regularly cleans it up.
dndimg alt="Banksy reindeer" dndsrc="../uploadedfiles/Banksy Vyse St JQ (Aug 2020).jpg" style="width: 100%;" />Photography by Elliott Brown
Google Maps Street View - Vyse St
Co-ordinates: 52.48962435687972, -1.912765177922335
Street art in Westside
Pissing on Banksy
Location: Wall of Bistro Pierre at Gas Street Basin.
Artist: unknown.
Description: A small boy urinating on Banksy. It has been protected by the Canal & River Trust with a sheet of perspex. It's been here since about March 2021.
dndimg alt="Not a Banksy" dndsrc="../uploadedfiles/Not a Banksy GSB 16052021.jpg" style="width: 100%;" />
Photography by Elliott Brown
Google Maps Street View - Gas St Basin
Co-ordinates: 52.47698624880546, -1.9095415509215925