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Pillars of the Van Horne|Rosemont Overpass

In September 2010 the Plateau Mont-Royal borough hired artists to create 6 murals on the pillars supporting the Van Horne|Rosemont overpass, on the East side of St-Laurent. These artists were mostly graffiti writers and street artists from Montreal: Stare, Zek, Axe and Fluke for Ashop, Monk.e, Zema and Frank Lam. In May 2013, the project was re-opened and another bunch of artists were given the contract of covering the pillars on the West side of St-Laurent. This second batch included a mix of graffiti writers as well as street and studio artists: Arpi, Peru Dyer, Sino, Sbire, Fanny Aishaa, Pito & Guko (credited as Capital P and Charlie Machete) and the Crazy Apes.

En septembre 2010, l’arrondissement Plateau Mont-Royal a fait réaliser 6 murales sur les piliers soutenant le viaduc Van Horne|Rosemont, à l’est de la rue St-Laurent. Les artistes choisis pour la création de cette galerie ‘à ciel ouvert’ étaient principalement des graffeurs et artistes de rue montréalais: Stare, Zek, Axe et Fluke pour Ashop, Monk.e, Zema et Frank Lam. En mai 2013, le projet a été relancé et de nouveaux artistes se sont vus octroyer le contrat de couvrir les piliers se trouvant du côté ouest de St-Laurent. Cette fois-ci la sélection incluait des graffeurs ainsi que des artistes de rue et de studio/atelier: Arpi, Peru Dyer, Sino, Sbire, Fanny Aishaa, Pito & Guko (crédités Capital P et Charlie Machete) et les Crazy Apes.


Western side / côté ouest [2013]

Arpi

Peru143

Sino

Sbire

Fanny Aishaa

Pito X Guko

Crazy Apes (Narc, Lith, Fezat, Korb, Egor)

Crazy Apes (Narc, Lith, Fezat, Korb, Egor)

A bonus one by Crazy Apes.

Not official: Kare and Mesk graffiti.


Eastern side / côté est [2010]

Stare

Zek

Ashop‘s Axe and Fluke.

Monk.e

La Paria aka Paria Crew featuring Zema, Astro, Frank Lam, Bjorn, Gaston and Kain.

The piece above carries over the sides of the pillar.

The piece above carries over the sides of the pillar.

This is the original piece by Zema and Frank Lam which was later replaced by the one shown above it.

New street art and graffiti February-March 2015

Due to the slow arrival of Spring, there isn’t much painted work to report at this point. The bulk of what I found lately are pieces by France’s El Moot Moot who has left his mark in many neighbourhoods of our city, and of course one by Waxhead who is just unstoppable. In the pasted work department (wheatpastes, paste-ups, stickers), the unstoppable one is Futur Lasor Now, and true to his usual self he has treated us to a number of new designs or new variations on familiar themes. The previously mentioned El Moot Moot as well as London’s Mother Superior have also decorated the city’s urban furniture with a significant amount of new stickers.

Comme le printemps prends son temps à décoller, il n’y a que très peu de pièces peintes à présenter ici. La grande majorité de ce que j’ai eu la chance de découvrir est par l’artiste français El Moot Moot qui a laissé son empreinte dans plusieurs quartiers de la ville. La seule autre pièce peinte majeure découverte est par Waxhead que rien ne peut arrêter. Au chapitre des oeuvres collées (collages, stickers, etc), celui qui ne peut être arrêté est Futur Lasor Now et, fidèle à lui-même, il nous a servi une bonne quantité de nouveaux trucs et de nouvelles variations sur des thèmes déjà connus. Le ci-haut mentionné El Moot Moot ainsi que Mother Superior de Londres ont aussi décoré le mobilier urbain d’une grande quantité de leurs stickers.


painted pieces

The year has barely started and this small house on Duluth was already given its second facelift by Waxhead. Also visible at the top is an older piece by Gawd. Check out the evolution of the house at the latter Waxhead link, it’s worth it.

El Moot Moot on St-Laurent

El Moot Moot between the Plateau and Villeray.

El Moot Moot on Beaubien.

El Moot Moot in the Plateau.

El Moot Moot on the George General d’Auto Reparation.

El Moot Moot in the alley between St-Denis and Drolet.

Unidentified artist (left) and El Moot Moot (right) in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark. Also visible in this shot are tags by Feros and Thief! amongst others.

El Moot Moot in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark. Also visible in this shot are a sticker and part of a wheatpaste by ROC514.

El Moot Moot in Centre-Sud.

El Moot Moot in the Village. Piece above it is by an unidentified artist.

El Moot Moot in the Village. Also visible is a tag by Thief!

Unidentified artist (left) and El Moot Moot (right) in Centre-Sud.

Small piece by someone from the WC Crew in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.


train track graffiti

Otek from CSX.

Peams from CSX. Also visible on the background wall are older pieces by Crane, Royal and many others.

Haxan. Also visible on the background wall is older graffiti by Oser, Zion, Pask, Koal and Fost.

Meor. Also visible on the background wall is older graffiti by Oser, Zion, Pask, Koal and Fost.

Koal. Also visible on the background wall is older graffiti by Zion, Koal and Fost.

Aces.


small posters

Futur Lasor Now

Futur Lasor Now; photo © Futur Lasor Now.


small paste-ups and stickers

Futur Lasor Now. This is actually cut vinyl, blending in quite nicely with the tags around.

Futur Lasor Now

Futur Lasor Now

Futur Lasor Now

New variation on an older theme by Futur Lasor Now.

More by Futur Lasor Now.

More by Futur Lasor Now.

Waxhead

This printed El Moot Moot sticker is usually white, not coloured in.

A printed El Moot Moot sticker.

A printed El Moot Moot sticker.

Hand-drawn El Moot Moot sticker.

More by El Moot Moot.

More by El Moot Moot.

More by El Moot Moot.

Paste-up by Stela.

Glitzy sticker by Stela.

Older design in new colours by Swarm.

Older design in new colours by Swarm.

Older design in new colours by Swarm.

London’s Mother Superior is in town.

Mother Superior

Mother Superior

Mother Superior

Mother Superior

Mother Superior

These paste-ups that appear to vary by the stamps in the corners are also by London’s Mother Superior (like the red ‘Hello’ stickers above).

More by London’s Mother Superior.

Nustwo aka Nus2 aka Nus II from the ELP Crew has been slapping around town. This and the one below are the more interesting sticker variations.

Nustwo aka Nus2 aka Nus II from the ELP Crew.

Unidentified artist. Click on image to read the fine print.

Unidentified artist.


stencil

After the Paul McCartney paste-ups from a few months ago, here’s a stencil. Artist is still unidentified.

HRKR aka HoarKor

HoarKor or HRKR for short was actually a duo of artists, Hoar and Kor, both Fine Arts students at Concordia University. They have tried their hand(s) at every possible type of urban art: figurative murals, graffiti, wheatpastes, stencils, smaller paste-ups and stickers, installations and even tagging. They also did a lot of studio work, you can check it out alongside much more of their street work on their Instagram and Facebook pages. In early 2017, after working together for 7 years, Hoar and Kor decided to put their professional relationship on hiatus (but not their friendship, hence the occasional collaboration between them afterwards). You can view their solo work via the following pages: Hoar on Instagram and Kor’s Instagram for “Mes chats dans ta ville”.

HoarKor, aussi connu sous le diminutif HRKR, est un duo d’artistes, Hoar et Kor. Ces deux étudiants de l’Université Concordia ont touché à toutes les formes d’art de rue: murales figuratives, graffitis, collages, pochoirs, collants et autocollants, intallations et même le tagging. Ils ont aussi été très prolifiques en studio. Jetez un coup d’oeil à leur pages Instagram et Facebook pour beaucoup plus que ce qui est présenté dans la galerie-photo ci-dessous. Au début de 2017, après 7 années de collaboration, Hoar et Kor ont décidé de commencer à travailler individuellement (mais ils ont continué à collaborer à l’occasion). Vous pouvez les suivre en solo via les pages de Hoar sur Instagram et le projet “Mes chats dans ta ville” de Kor.


Figurative painting

Kor on cat and Hoar on letters, in Rosemont.

HRKR’s contribution to the 2016 edition of the Under Pressure Festival was the side wall of the Foufounes Electriques terrasse.

Contribution to the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Detail from above work.

Contribution to the Cabane à sucre secret gallery, part 1/3. Also visible on the left is a frame by Ms Teri done earlier for the 2014 edition of Mural Festival.

Contribution to the Cabane à sucre secret gallery, part 2/3.

Contribution to the Cabane à sucre secret gallery, part 3/3.

In Rosemont-Petite-Patrie.

Large mural in Petite-Patrie (click to view bigger).

Front wall of Barfly on St-Laurent. The door bottom right is by Labrona.

In Mile End.

In the Plateau.

Figurative part of a combo with letters in the abandoned Montreal Hippodrome stables (I didn’t get a chance to photograph the letters part).

This is one side of an entrance of a St-Henri high school.

This is the other side of the above entrance of a St-Henri high school.

On a wall of a youth centre in Rosemont.

Door 1/4 of a boxing center in Petite-Patrie.

Door 2/4 of a boxing center in Petite-Patrie.

Door 3/4 of a boxing center in Petite-Patrie.

Door 4/4 of a boxing center in Petite-Patrie.

On containers for the 2016 Marché des Possibles (photo 1/4).

On containers for the 2016 Marché des Possibles (photo 2/4).

On containers for the 2016 Marché des Possibles (photo 3/4).

On containers for the 2016 Marché des Possibles (photo 4/4).

On Jeanne-Mance.


Letters

Hoar’s part of a session with Kor in Rosemont (see Kor next).

Kor’s part of a session with Hoar in Rosemont (see Hoar above).

In Petite-Patrie.

Contribution to the 2016 International Percussion Festival.

At the abandoned Montreal Hippodrome stables.

At the abandoned Montreal Hippodrome stables.

In industrial Hochelaga.

In the Plateau.

At the abandoned Montreal Hippodrome stables.

At the abandoned Montreal Hippodrome stables.

At the abandoned Montreal Hippodrome stables.

Graffiti by train tracks (‘HRKR’ at the top; other visible pieces by Sane, Zion and Wase).

A big throw in Mile End.


Wheatpastes and small paste-ups

Kor wheatpaste found on St-Laurent.

Poster, photo © HoarKor.

Wheatpaste.

Poster.

Small paste-up.

Small paste-up.

Small paste-up.

Small paste-up. Also visible in the top left corner is a sticker by Futur Lasor Now.


Under Pressure Festival 2015 sidewalk promos

In the weeks leading up to the 2015 edition of the Under Pressure Festival, a dozen promos were painted by Hoarkor on the sidewalks of the neighbourhood.

Au cours de la semaine précédant la tenue de l’édition 2015 du Festival Under Pressure, une douzaine de pubs ont été peintes par Hoarkor sur les trottoirs du quartier.


Other

Installation for the 2014 edition of Mural Festival. Photo © Pia MTL

Installation for the 2015 VHS – Van Horne Station event.

Installation for the 2015 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Installation for the 2016 International Percussion Festival.

Reverse of information panel for the 2016 edition of Mural Festival.

Reverse of information panel for the 2016 edition of Mural Festival.

Painted wood cut-out in Villeray.

Another wood-up.


Stickers

Sticker.

Collaboration with ROC514.

Collaboration with ROC514.

Kor sticker.

Sticker tag.


Tags


Hoar without Kor

Halloween LTG crew wall by Hozek (left), EK Sept (letters) and Hoar (right).

The LTG crew wall for the 2025 edition of Under Pressure, featuring EK Sept, Hoar, Hozek, Rizek, Seork and Amer.

Hoar inside a wrestling gym.

Hoar inside a wrestling gym, featuring a collaboration with EK Sept for the dog.

EK Sept, Rizek and Hoar representing LTG in Hochelaga.

Hoar’s piece on the LTG and friends wall for the 2024 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

At the Papineau legal graffiti wall.

At the PSC legal graffiti wall.

Hoar, Rizek and EK Sept mashup piece above pieces by Adi and Louis Letters, inside an abandoned building.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In a Hochelaga alley.

Hoar’s piece on the LTG and friends wall for the 2023 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In a Hochelaga alley.

Mural in Hochelaga by LTG’s Paynt, Hozek, Hoar and EK Sept.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

Hoar and EK Sept fusion piece in Hochelaga.

Hoar and EK Sept fusion piece in Rosemont.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In Rosemont.

In a Hochelaga alley.

Detail from a large multi-artist mural in Villeray.

Halloween piece in a Hochelaga alley.

Thanksgiving piece in a Hochelaga alley.

In a Hochelaga alley.

Close-up on Hoar’s part on the LTG/POM/H2K wall for the 2021 edition of the Under Pressure Festival. See full wall below.

The full LTG/POM/H2K wall for the 2021 edition of the Under Pressure Festival featuring EK Sept, Grils, Hoar, Paynt, Seork, Hozek, Rizek, Haks and Amer.

Hoar on letters and Seork on character, in Villeray.

Hoar doing EK Sept‘s name for his birthday, in a Hochelaga alley.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In Villeray.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In Petite-Patrie.

Contribution to a LTG crew space-themed production in the Plateau.

Collaboration with EK Sept in a Plateau alley.

In Rosemont.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In Rosemont.

Hoar on 2nd floor birds, and Hoar and EK Sept on ground level pieces, in a Verdun back alley.

Hoar on character, and Hoar and EK Sept on letters, in a Verdun back alley.

Hoar’s contribution to a LTG crew production.

In Rosemont.

Hoar, EK Sept and Hozek on the terrasse of Foufounes Electriques.

At the PSC legal graffiti wall.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

Collaboration with Grils and EK Sept in Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

Hoar, Haks, EK Sept and Nemo collaboration for the 2020 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

A short-lived bonus with EK Sept for the 2020 edition of the Under Pressure Festival, on a wall spot soon after given to another artist.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

Hoar on letters and right character, with Hozek on the cartoon-like version of Hoar on the left.

Collaboration with EK Sept in a Rosemont alley.

In Rosemont.

With Seork on character, at the Papineau legal graffiti wall.

In an abandoned building.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

At the Papineau legal graffiti wall.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont, a tribute to the doctors and nurses during the Covid-19 crisis.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In an abandoned building.

In an abandoned building.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

From a LTG crew Halloween-themed prod.

Rooftop in industrial St-Leonard.

In Rosemont.

At the Papineau legal graffiti wall.

In Rosemont.

Rooftop in industrial St-Leonard.

In Rosemont.

At the Papineau legal graffiti wall.

For the 2019 edition of Canettes de Ruelle.

Fokus aka Ofusk (top), EK Sept (middle) and Hoar (ground) on a Van Horne overpass pillar

Hoar and EK Sept representing LTG in the Plateau.

In the Plateau.

At the PSC legal graffiti wall.

Aces (top) and Hoar (ground) on the LTG/POM wall for the 2019 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Hoar’s name piece in a big LTG crew production. See full wall below.

Huge LTG crew wall in Hochelaga featuring EK Sept, Hoar, Paynt, Hozek, Seork, Grils, Gost and Serum. Hoar did his name piece but also quite a bit of the background.

At the Brigade B7 prod.

Hoar (top), Serum (middle), EK Sept (ground level) and Ofusk (figurative material) at the Brigade B7 prod.

In Rosemont.

In the Plateau.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

At the PSC legal graffiti wall.

In Laval.

In the Plateau.

In the Plateau.

In a Plateau alley.

For the 2018 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

At the PSC legal graffiti wall.

Hoar in Rosemont.

Hoar’s contribution to the Chats de Ruelle Festival (Canettes de Ruelle 2017) (angle 1/2; see next).

Hoar’s contribution to the Chats de Ruelle Festival (Canettes de Ruelle 2017) (angle 2/2; see above).

Hoar for the 2017 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Hoar at the abandoned Montreal Hippodrome stables.

Hoar for the 2017 edition of Mural Festival.

Hoar without Kor at the abandoned Montreal Hippodrome stables.


Kor without Hoar

On autorack.

Inside an abandoned building.

On TTX.

In Petite-Patrie.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

In a Plateau back alley.

Kor’s wall for the Chats de Ruelle Festival (Canettes de Ruelle 2017) which he curated.

Kor for the 2017 edition of the Under Pressure Festival, also part of a project called “Mes chats dans ta ville”.

Kor piece on a Masson rooftop, part of a project called “Mes chats dans ta ville”.

Kor featuring KG (not the graffiti crew) in Mile End.

Kor, Seano, MSH and perhaps more for the 2020 edition of Canettes de Ruelle.

Kor’s part in the Brigade B7 production.

On a rooftop in Montreal North.

In an abandoned building.

At the Papineau legal graffiti wall.

In Rosemont.

With Mesh on a Rosemont rooftop.

In a Rosemont alley.

Trackside in Rosemont-Petite-Patrie.

In a Rosemont alley.

In a Rosemont alley.

In an abandoned building.

In an abandoned building.

At the Papineau legal graffiti wall.

At the Papineau legal graffiti wall.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

Kor’s part in the 2019 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Kor’s part in the 2019 edition of Canettes de Ruelle.

In an abandoned building.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont.

With Maf in an abandoned building.

Trackside piece.

In an abandoned building.

In Little Italy.

In an empty Plateau lot.

In Hochelaga.

Kor roller graffiti on Omnipac building. Photo © HoarKor.

Kor roller graffiti by train tracks.

Kor roller in Outremont.

In Rosemont.

In Rosemont-Petite-Patrie.

In a Mile End alley.

Trackside.

In the Plateau.

In a Mile End alley.

In the Plateau.

In Mile End.

In the Plateau.

In Petite-Patrie.

In St-Henri.

In St-Henri.

At the Papineau legal graffiti wall.

In Rosemont.

A tag in an abandoned building.

A tag in Rosemont.

In the Plateau.

Cabot x Gilmore MPC Papers walls

The 4 walls of the MPC Papers industrial building on the corner of Cabot and Gilmore in the Southwest are sometimes referred to as being legal graffiti walls, but they are not. These walls have been used in the past in the context of various graffiti festivals such as Meeting Of Styles/Can You Rock and are not really for anyone to do their thing. This explains why the pieces here are often quite big in size and they are usually by big names in the local and international graffiti scene.

The photo gallery below shows works created over the years 2013-2016. The spot was in April 2017 the site of an event unofficially titled Scan You Rock, celebrating the work of Scaner, one of Montreal’s best and most respected writers. The pieces created during the latter event are presented in this Scan You Rock post. In September 2018 a huge 100-artist tribute to Scaner was done on the Cabot wall, see all those photos here.

Les 4 murs de l’édifice industriel logeant Les Papiers MPC, situé au coin des rues Cabot et Gilmore dans le sud-ouest de la ville, sont parfois appelés ‘murs légaux’ mais ils ne le sont pas. Ces murs ont par le passé été utilisés dans le cadre de divers festivals du graffiti tels que Meeting Of Styles/Can You Rock et ne sont pas vraiment offerts aux graffeurs qui veulent venir y exercer leur art. Ceci explique pourquoi les pièces qui y sont produites sont souvent de très grande taille et par de grands noms des scènes locale et internationale du graffiti.

La galerie-photo ci-dessous présente les pièces qui y ont été créées de 2013 à 2016. En avril 2017 le site a été choisi pour l’événement Scan You Rock célébrant Scaner, un des meilleurs et des plus respectés artistes graffitis de Montréal. Les pièces créées au cours de cet événement sont présentées dans un article consacré entièrement à Scan You Rock. En septembre 2018 une immense murale hommage à Scaner impliquant une centaine de graffeurs et autres artistes a été créée sur le mur Cabot. Toutes les photos se trouvent ici.


general view

General view. Click to enlarge, then click ‘view full size’ in bottom right corner to view larger.

Artists at work in the summer of 2014.


Cabot side

Sen2 (top), AG Crew (bottom left) and Geser (bottom right)

Bacon (left) and Scaner (right)

Scaner (left) and Kemr (right)

Sewk (left) and Brong (right)

Omen (left) and unknown artist (over door and right)

Tchug (left), Dfek (top right) and Timer (bottom right).

Royal Kingbee

Rubin (top) and Deem One (bottom)

Sen2 (top left), Logek (bottom left) and Hsix (right).

Maniak (top left), Zek (bottom left), Axe and Fluke for K6A and Ashop (right)


Gilmore side

K6A portion of the building, featuring Serak (top), Fleo (middle) and Dodo Osé (bottom).

Earth Crusher

AG Crew

The 2018 edition of the above wall by the AG Crew.

123Klan‘s Scien (left) and Klor (right).

Unidentified artist.

Lith and Fezat from the Crazy Apes.

Guko

Oreks at the top and Some at the bottom.

Soma (top), Beast (middle) and tribute to Dock (bottom).


side and back walls

The side and back walls are covered in more unofficial work.

Les murs latéraux et de derrière sont recouvert d’oeuvres moins officielles.

Jaber

Fonki

Art Gang‘s Snipe and Senck.

Axe (left), Smak (bottom right) and what’s left of Pito (top).

AG Crew

Serak (top) and Sewk (bottom).

Unidentified artist.

Zonek on truck, Senck and the bottom, Sore at the top edge of building. Other writers are unidentified. Photo © Guillaume Couture.

AG Crew on truck, Sore at the top edge of building.

Unidentified artist (bottom left), Jaber (bottom right) and someone from the KP10s (top).

Senk (bottom right), Snipes (partial on the left) and unidentified artists.

Otak

Unidentified artist.


nearby on Eadie

3-wall mural by ThaPhlash on Eadie (only first two walls visible in this shot, see below).

3-wall mural by ThaPhlash on Eadie (only last two walls visible in this shot, see above).

Mono Sourcil

Mono Sourcil defines herself as a muralist but she is also known to do wheatpastes and hand-drawn stickers. For more information on the artist and for many more photos than what I have featured here, check out her personal, Instagram and Facebook pages.

Mono Sourcil se définit comme muraliste, mais elle s’affiche dans nos rues aussi via ses collages et ses stickers dessinés à la main. Pour plus d’information sur l’artiste et pour plus de photos que ce qui se trouve dans la galerie-photo ci-dessous, voir ses pages personnelle, Instagram et Facebook.


Painted / peint

In an abandoned building.

Off Under Pressure 2025.

Mono Sourcil’s contribution to the prod put together to save the Projet 45 skatepark.

On bridge pillar.

A mural in the fashion district.

At the Papineau legal graffiti wall.

In the Plateau.

For the 2023 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

For Breaking Walls / Meeting Of Styles.

In Nouveau Rosemont.

In a Hochelaga alley.

A mural in Hochelaga.

On the Rude crew wall for the 2021 edition of Canettes de Ruelle. This is actually the second version of this piece, see the first one below.

On the Rude crew wall for the 2021 edition of Canettes de Ruelle.

In Hochelaga.

For the 2020 edition of Mural.

In Petite-Patrie.

Under an overpass.

In a Rosemont alley.

Trackside.

With Hsix on letters, under a bridge.

First attempt at a realistic piece, from a K6A & friends production in the South West.

For the 2019 edition of Canettes de Ruelle.

In the Plateau. See below for close-ups.

In the Plateau, close up 1/3. Scroll up for full wall.

In the Plateau, close up 2/3. Scroll up for full wall.

In the Plateau, close up 3/3. Scroll up for full wall.

A small piece off Under Pressure 2019.

In an abandoned warehouse.

In an abandoned warehouse.

Mural in the McGill ghetto.

On a public piano (in-progress, unfinished in this shot). See opposite side below.

On a public piano (in-progress, unfinished in this shot). See opposite side above.

Mono Sourcil in Wynwood Miami during the 2018 edition of Art Basel.

In Rosemont.

Next to Axe Lalime‘s iconic bandaid logo, in the South West.

For the Ru street festival on Mont-Royal.

In a Plateau alley. See below for close-ups of the individual sides.

In a Plateau alley, close-up on one half of the above wall.

In a Plateau alley, close-up on the other half of the above wall.

Contribution to the Estival de Canes 2018. Letters beneath her character are by Hsix.

For the 2018 edition of MTL En Arts (1/6).

For the 2018 edition of MTL En Arts (2/6).

For the 2018 edition of MTL En Arts (3/6).

For the 2018 edition of MTL En Arts (4/6).

For the 2018 edition of MTL En Arts (5/6).

For the 2018 edition of MTL En Arts (6/6).

Contribution to a K6A & friends production in the South West.

In a Rosemont alley.

For the Chats de Ruelle Festival (Canettes de Ruelle 2017).

Mono Sourcil’s super long mural for the 2017 edition of Mural Festival. See next for close-ups in three segments.

Segment 1/3 of Mono Sourcil’s mural super long mural for the 2017 edition of Mural Festival.

Segment 2/3 of Mono Sourcil’s mural super long mural for the 2017 edition of Mural Festival.

Segment 3/3 of Mono Sourcil’s mural super long mural for the 2017 edition of Mural Festival.

On the side wall of a Plateau café.

On the front wall of the same café as above.

For the 2016 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Mono Sourcil (right) and Wzrds Gng (left) in a Mile end alley.

In Mile End.

In Mile End. Visible top corner is a bit from the Wzrds Gng.

In the Plateau.

On a garage door in the Plateau.

In Hochelaga.

In Hochelaga.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In a Rosemont alley.

In the back of an industrial building in Rosemont.

Germ Dee (top) and Mono Sourcil (bottom) in Petite-Patrie.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Hsix (right letters) in a Hochelaga back alley.

For the 2016 International Percussion Festival.

4U crew triptych for Plaza Walls featuring Germ Dee (left), Tiburón (centre) and Mono Sourcil (right).

The Wzrds Gng (left), Mono Sourcil (centre) and Germ Dee (right) at a Hochelaga skateboard pipe.

Back of information board for the 2016 edition of Mural Festival.

“Your Face Here” board for the 2016 edition of Mural Festival.

On a sidewalk panel on Amherst for the 2016 edition of the MTL En Arts festival.

For the 2017 edition of MTL En Arts (angle 1/2, see below).

For the 2017 edition of MTL En Arts (angle 2/2, see above).

For the 2015 Osheaga festival (work-in-progress almost finished).

In Parc des Royaux. See next two photos for close-ups.

In Parc des Royaux, detail 1/2.

In Parc des Royaux, detail 2/2.

Nybar letters on a Mono Sourcil mural in Hochelaga.

Contribution to the 2015 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

On Boisbriand container, done during the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Futur Lasor Now (right) for the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival, Ste-Catherine x Hotel de Ville.

Turtle Caps (left), Mono Sourcil (centre), Labrona (right) for the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival, Ste-Catherine x Hotel de Ville.

Turtle Caps (left), Mono Sourcil (centre), Labrona (right) for the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival, Ste-Catherine x Hotel de Ville.

Mono Sourcil, Labrona, Turtle Caps, Alex Produkt for the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival, Ste-Catherine x Hotel de Ville.

In Hochelaga, near the legal graffiti tunnel on de Rouen.

Mono Sourcil for the 2016 Amalgam Festival in Sherbrooke (3 sides of the same bridge pillar).

Mono Sourcil for the 2016 Amalgam Festival in Sherbrooke.

On Plaza St-Hubert post (2 sides shown).

An old one found under a bridge.

Under bridge, next to train tracks.

In an empty Hochelaga lot.

In an abandoned lot in Eastern Montreal.

In an abandoned lot in Eastern Montreal.

In an abandoned lot in Eastern Montreal.

This piece in a Hochelaga staircase was rediscovered when construction re-exposed the wall on which it was painted.

On a Canada Malting Co silo.


Sidewalk pieces for Mural Festival 2024

Mono Sourcil was the artist in charge of the sidewalk pieces for the 2024 edition of Mural Festival.

Mono Sourcil était l’artiste contribuant les pièces de trottoir pour l’édition 2024 du Festival Mural.


Wheatpastes, paste-ups / collages

In the Plateau.

A Small paste-up in Plateau End.

A small paste-up in the Plateau.

A small paste-up in the Plateau.

A small paste-up in the Plateau.

A small paste-up in the Plateau.

A small paste-up in the Plateau.

In the Plateau.

Set of wheatpastes for the 2018 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

For the 2017 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

For the 2017 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

With Labrona on the right, in the Quartier Latin.

In the Quartier Latin.

With Labrona below, in Centre-sud.

In Hochelaga.

In the Quartier des Spectacles.

Wheatpaste on the boarded up Club Sandwich for the 2016 edition of the MTL En Arts festival.

In Hochelaga.

Labrona (left) and Mono Sourcil (right) next to UQAM.

Labrona (left) and Mono Sourcil (right) in the village.

Labrona (left) and Mono Sourcil (right) in Centre Sud.

Labrona (left) and Mono Sourcil (right) in the same Centre-Sud spot as above but about a year later.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Labrona (right) in Hochelaga.

Mono Sourcil (top) and Labrona (bottom) downtown.

Wheatpaste found on Ontario.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Labrona (right) on Clark.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Labrona (right) wheatpastes in the Quartier des spectacles.

Labrona (top) and Mono Sourcil (bottom) wheatpastes on a Plateau door.

Mono Sourcil (top right), Labrona (bottom) and Scaner (centre left) wheatpastes on door in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark. Also visible in the top left corner is a sticker for Decolonizing Street Art.

Wheatpastes by Labrona (left) and Mono Sourcil (right) with stickers by Graffiti Knight (top left), Turtle Caps (in yellow) and Il Flatcha (two in purple) at the top, in the Plateau.

Mono Sourcil (top) and Labrona (bottom) plus drawing by Cryote who at the time was in the Wzrds Gng.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Labrona (right) wheatpastes in Centre-Sud.

A small paste-up.

A small paste-up.

A small paste-up.

A small paste-up.

A small paste-up.

A small paste-up.

Small hand-drawn paste-up.

Small hand-drawn paste-up.

Small hand-drawn paste-up.

Paste-up.

Smaller hand-drawn paste-up.

Paste-ups.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Small paste-up.

Small paste-up.

Small paste-up.


Cardboard paste-ups / collages-carton


stickers

There are a lot of stickers in this photo gallery, but this is just a sample of what is out there.

Il y a un très grand nombre de stickers dans la galerie-photo ci-dessous, mais ce n’est qu’une fraction de ce qu’on peut trouver dans les rues de Montréal.

Left: Mono Sourcil at the bottom but perhaps not at the top.
Right: larger sticker


Figurative throws and tags

Next to Germ Dee on the right in a Plateau alley.


letter tags and throws

Hollows and tags by Mono Sourcil and Honey.

Kat

Kat, an activist for animal rights, started pasting posters in the streets and alleys of Montreal in 2014, a few years after arriving here from her native France. Her recurring theme of anthropomorphic creatures with animal masks quickly got her noticed by local fans of street art. Her characters are often held captive by chains or strange contraptions, or are placed behind bars – in the image, or literally pasted behind the bars of alley windows and doors. The artist explains her choice of iconography in these words: “On one side we are all hiding behind a mask when we are in society and choosing what we want to show from ourselves to others. Sometimes it’s to protect ourselves from not showing emotions to look stronger or just to keep safe in our secret garden. On the other aspect of the human being, we all have a connection with an animal. It can be a physical or similar personality, an attraction or an aversion, a fear…”

Since the end of 2016 Kat has broaden the range of social issues tackled in her art, but she has also more or less taken a break from working in the streets. The work shown in the gallery below therefore mostly spans the years 2014-2016. For more information on the artist, and to see what she has been up to since 2016, check out www.katstreetart.com as well as her Instagram page.

L’artiste d’origine française Kat s’est mise aux collages dans les rues et ruelles de Montréal en 2014, quelques années après son arrivée à Montréal. Elle s’est immédiatement fait remarquer par les amateurs de street art pour son thème récurrent, des créatures anthropomorphiques portant masques d’animaux. Ses personnages sont souvent prisonniers de chaines ou se trouvent derrière des barreaux (dans l’image ou littéralement derrière de vrais barreaux de fenêtres et portes de ruelles). L’artiste, qui a à coeur la lutte contre la cruauté envers les animaux, explique ainsi ses choix iconographiques (ma traduction): “D’abord, nous portons tous un masque lorsqu’en société. Nous choisissons ainsi quelle facette de notre personnalité nous désirons présenter aux autres. Nous agissons ainsi par protection, pour avoir l’air plus fort, pour se sentir plus sécure. De plus, chacun de nous a une certaine connection avec un animal. Cette connection peut être due à une ressemblance physique ou de personalité, ou le fruit d’une attirance ou répulsion envers l’animal en question.”

Depuis la fin de 2016 Kat a ajouté quelques causes sociales à son art, mais elle a aussi à toutes fins pratiques cessé d’exposer dans la rue. Les oeuvres présentées dans la gallerie ci-dessous datent en conséquence majoritairement de la période 2014-2016. Pour plus d’information sur l’artiste, ou pour voir son travail en studio depuis 2016, vous êtes invités à jeter un coup d’oeil à www.katstreetart.com ainsi qu’à sa page Instagram.


pasted work

Paste-up off the 2025 edition of Mural Festival.

Paste-up off the 2025 edition of Mural Festival.

Paste-up off the 2025 edition of Mural Festival.

On one of the info boards for the 2019 edition of Mural Festival.

Posters for the 2018 edition of the Under Pressure Festival. See below for close-ups.

Close-up of one of the posters for the 2018 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Close-up of one of the posters for the 2018 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

In a Plateau alley.

In a Plateau alley. Notice the stitch around the mouth, the cuts and the fake blood.

In a Plateau alley.

In a Plateau alley.

In the Plateau.

In the Plateau.

In Plateau End.

In Mile End.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Near Clark

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Well hidden at the back of a narrow dead-end alley.

On an abandoned Mile End building.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Near St-Laurent.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In an alley off Mont-Royal. The paste-up on the right is by Swarm.

At the back of the LNDMRK offices.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

On the George General d’Auto Reparation abandoned garage.

On St-Dominique.

On the George General d’Auto Reparation abandoned garage.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In Parc des Amériques. Also visible in the bottom left corner is a paste-up by ROC514 with Cup O’Joe.

Collaboration between Kat (left) and Labrona (right) found in Centre-Sud.

Collaboration between Kat (left) and Labrona (right) found in Centre-Sud.


painted work

Kat’s contribution to the 2016 edition of the Under Pressure Festival. Unlike most of Kat’s work, this piece was all painted on location.

Official work on St-Laurent. See below for a different angle.

Official work on St-Laurent. See above it for a different angle.

More from the above official project on St-Laurent.


installation

Kat created a selfie booth/installation for the 2016 edition of Mural Festival with the aim of bringing awareness to animal rights.

Pour l’édition 2016 du Festival Mural Kat a créé une installation dans le but de sensibiliser les visiteurs au sort des animaux en captivité.

New street art and graffiti winter 2014-2015

After a break of 2 months, here’s the first ‘new works’ post of the year. Now that spring is at the door and our artists are going to hit the streets again, I should be able to go back to posting one or two of these every month.

A few murals and painted pieces were produced during the unusually warm final week of 2014. Then January and February were bitterly cold so not much happened besides stickers and tags. It takes a lot to stop Futur Lasor Now and Stela, so the ‘stickers’ section of the image gallery below includes a lot of their stuff. Waxhead is another of the braver ones. He probably nearly froze his fingers off making sure we got our fix of new painted pieces during the time of the year when others hibernate or go work in warmer climates.

Après un répit de 2 mois, voici le premier article de l’année présentant les nouveautés apparues dans les rues de Montréal. Maintenant que le printemps est à notre porte et que nos artistes vont reprendre la rue, je devrais être de nouveau en mesure de publier un ou deux de ces articles par mois.

Le temps doux que nous avons connu au cours de la dernière semaine de 2014 a rendu possible la création de quelques murales et autres pièces peintes de plus petite envergure. Ensuite les températures se sont maintenues sous les normales pour la majorité de janvier et février, et conséquemment les découvertes ont surtout été des autocollants et des tags. La section ‘stickers’ de la galerie-photo ci-dessous inclut beaucoup de pièces par Futur Lasor Now et Stela parce que rien ne semble arrêter ces deux irréductibles. Waxhead est aussi parmi nos plus braves artistes. Alors que la plupart ont plutôt décidé d’hiberner ou d’aller travailler sous des ciels plus cléments, il s’est gelé les doigts pour que les accros comme moi puissent recevoir leur dose de nouvelles pièces peintes.


Murals and smaller painted pieces

This mural on Sherbrooke is credited to SoRaw and @SamyBaichy, but a search returned nothing for those names.

This small house on Duluth was given its bi- or tri-annual facelift by Waxhead. Also visible at the top is an older piece by Gawd. Check out the evolution of the house in Waxhead’s spotlight.

This new creation by Waxhead is a tribute to Hayao Miyazaki and was found in the McGill ghetto.

New Waxhead found in an alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

This huge graffiti by the 1017 Crew popped up on an abandoned gas station on Mont-Royal.

A quick throw by Nixon dedicated to Scaner, next to the Jean-Talon market.

Graffiti from early in the winter by an unidentified artist (left) and Listen (right), off St-Laurent.


Wheatpastes

This poster credited to Muesli appeared here and there in central Montreal in the week following the events at Charlie Hebdo. This particular one was found in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Swarm (left) and Stela (right) in phone booth on Ontario.

This sign on Parc bears Ms Teri‘s name, but it is not clear whether or not she is the one who put up the arrow wheatpaste beneath it. Also visible is a sticker by Crue.

Above and below: wheatpastes of bagels recently popped up all over Bagelhood, mostly on St-Viateur, Parc and Fairmount. Artist unknown.

This particular creation was found in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

More bagels.

More pasted bagels. Also visible are stickers by Tik Tok (top) and Greasy Jim (bottom).

One more pasted bagel.


Stickers and small paste-ups

Waxhead

Waxhead

G.Knight

G.Knight

Futur Lasor Now

Futur Lasor Now

Futur Lasor Now

Futur Lasor Now

Futur Lasor Now

Futur Lasor Now

New variation on an older theme by Futur Lasor Now.

Futur Lasor Now

Stela

Stela

Stela

Stela

Stela (top) for Queer Sprayers (bottom).

Stela times two.

Stela

Stela (middle and bottom), Homsik (middle right), Naps (top centre), Futur Lasor Now (top left), Yunotdoc? (middle left) and other unidentified friends

Stela

Stela

ROC514

ROC514 collaboration with Purplesmoke17 (Rupert Plinkerton).

Turtle Caps

Sien514

Above and below: 4 variations by Five Eight were found around the St-Laurent x Mont-Royal corner.

Five Eight

Five Eight

Five Eight

Shifty Cat

Spoof of protest stickers found on buses and police cars; this is for the time being to be credited as having been created by #jairiencollé.

Tag paste-up by Scaner.

Bezoman

Bezoman

El Moot Moot

El Moot Moot

El Moot Moot

Many new stickers have been found from this unidentified artist who slaps mostly around Mile End.

Two more by the above unidentified artist.

It looks like Mony Zakhour was in town.

One more by Mony Zakhour.

Chris RWK aka Robots Will Kill

Ekro

Zenka. See ‘Other’ section below for more by this artist.

SBU One

Unidentified artist.

Yunotdoc (?)

Serum

Greasy Jim’s stickers have evolved from being only pasted tags.

Two more by Greasy Jim.


Tags and drawn pieces

More than just a hit-and-run by Scaner.

Five Eight

Futur Lasor Now

Futur Lasor Now

Snail/Coz from the WC Crew (left) and someone from the Wzrds Gng (right) in Parc Jeanne-Mance.

Snail/Coz from the WC Crew on St-Dominique.

Snail/Coz from the WC Crew.

Greasy Jim’s tags are getting bigger. Not shown in this gallery are the hundreds of tags of his name that have popped up all over the city this winter.

One more by Greasy Jim.

Many Maturnin tags have popped up around the lower Mile End in February. A few have text (as above) but in most cases it’s just the symbol seen below.

Maturnin

Maturnin

Maturnin

Chalk tag by You Go Girl in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

One more chalk tag by You Go Girl in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.


Other

Waxhead on a thick wood cut by Starkey put up on Bernard on the night of the opening of their joint exhibition.

One more wood-up by Waxhead and Starkey on Bernard.

Clay piece by Zenka found on Mont-Royal.

Yarn bombing found on de Gaspé. Artist(s) unknown.

St-Laurent|Clark back alley between Laurier and St-Viateur

The back alley that runs behind the western side of St-Laurent is one of Montreal’s great hotspots for commissioned and non-commissioned street art. Two stretches of that alley are particularly interesting: the one from Duluth to Des Pins (subject of a different post) and the one from Laurier to St-Viateur which is covered here. Some of this city’s greatest artists have left their mark there in the form of murals, smaller figurative pieces, graffiti, wheatpastes, stencils and of course the unavoidable stickers.

Each segment of the alley has a different feel, so this post is divided accordingly: Laurier to Fairmount, Fairmount to St-Viateur, and above St-Viateur. Pieces were photographed from the summer of 2014 to the summer of 2016.

La ruelle se trouvant derrière le coté ouest de la rue St-Laurent est une des meilleures galeries à ciel ouvert à Montréal. Deux portions de cette ruelle sont particulièrement intéressantes: celle comprise entre Duluth et Des Pins (le sujet d’un article à part) et celle comprise entre les rues Laurier et St-Viateur, que nous traitons ici. Plusieurs parmi les meilleurs artistes à Montréal y ont laissé leur marque (commandée ou non) sous forme de murales et pièces figuratives de plus petite envergure, graffitis, collages, pochoirs, et évidemment les inévitables autocollants.

La gallerie-photo ci-dessous est divisée en chapitres reflétant le caractère différent de chaque segment de cette ruelle: Laurier à Fairmount, Fairmount à St-Viateur, et nord de St-Viateur. Les pièces présentées ont été photographiées de l’été 2014 à l’été 2016.


Between Laurier and Fairmount

Nixon in alley north of Laurier.

Los Keos in alley north of Laurier.

Fore / Los Keos in alley north of Laurier.

The AG Crew featuring Snipe and Senck.

Vhat, part 1/3.

Vhat, part 2/3.

Vhat, part 3/3.

Door featuring mainly a wheatpaste by Lily Luciole, stickers by Tik Tok, Cif and Meat and lots of tagging including Tik Tok in bottom right corner. Close-ups of various parts below.

Close-up of Lily Luciole wheatpaste. Stickers on the left are by Tik Tok and Cif.

Close-up of the Meat sticker on door above.

Alex Produkt amongst lots of tags.

Sloast paste-up.

Sloast paste-up.

ROC514. Also visible on the right is an earlier stencil by Dookie (scroll down a bit for close-up).

ROC514

Pnda over tags.

Pnda and lots of tags.

Graffiti by Olo.

Nesko.

Drawing by Other, with tags by House and Hirok amongst others.

Stencil by Dookie3.

Koni HTU

Greasy Jim

Stencil for Pro-Can Ibalizm.

Unidentified artist.

Stickers by Tik Tok (top left), National Zombi (top right), 52Hz (fish) and Fleb (bottom right), plus pasted card by Pnda (blue).

Tava sticker.


Between Fairmount and St-Viateur

Anna Meinong / Zoids?

Five Eight (left) and Peru143 (right).

Closer view of the Peru143 portion.

Gawd

Screm, Visual Pollution, Toast.

Toast

Visual Pollution

Waxhead, Cryote and perhaps other members of the then Wzrds Gng. For the paste-ups visible beneath the stairs, scroll down.

Same location as above, one year earlier, just Waxhead.

Turtle Caps

Tava (hearts at the top), Futur Lasor Now (bottom) and unknown artist in between. A close-up of the mini-sticker in the top left corner is shown further down in this gallery.

Alex Produkt, plus Pnda paste-up in the top corner.

Collaboration wheatpaste between ROC514 and Mr Chose.

Lily Luciole poster.

Le Renard Fou wheatpastes.

Miss Me wheatpaste (left) and Pnda (right).

Futur Lasor Now wheatpaste.

Futur Lasor Now (left) and 52Hz (right) wheatpastes.

52Hz wheatpaste.

Swarm paste-ups.

Naps, plus what’s left of a Graffiti Knight wheatpaste.

Stela, at the Fairmount end of this alley.

Stela again, this time at the St-Viateur end of the alley. With Selena Gomez, together representing the Witch Gang. Flags in bottom left corner are by Swarm for Decolonizing Street Art.

Collaboration wheatpaste between ROC514 and 69 aka 6ara9e.

Swarm (left) and Futur Lasor Now (right).

Wheatpaste by an unidentified artist.

Wheatpasting collaboration between Lily Luciole and Swarm.

Gial wheatpaste.

Wheatpastes by Futur Lasor Now (centre), Swarm for Decolonizing Street Art (bottom) and paste-up by Pnda (top). See next photo for close-up of stickered piece in the bottom left corner.

Close-up of stickered piece in previous photo.

Wheatpastes by Turtle Caps (left) and Toronto’s Lovebot (right).

Zola.

Kat wheatpaste.

Kat wheatpaste.

Kat wheatpaste.

Kat wheatpaste.

Pasted cardboard by Mono Sourcil.

Pasted cardboard by Mono Sourcil.

Sloast wheatpaste.

ROC514 and Flavor wheatpastes.

Sloast wheatpaste.

Sloast, partially over an old sticker from yours truly.

Starkey wood-up.

Wheatpaste by Graffiti Knight.

Poster by Muesli.

Wheatpaste by an unidentified artist.

Pasted bagel prints at the St-Viateur end of the alley, artist unknown.

Unidentified artist.

Listen

Listen

Listen

Other

Gawd (left) and Labrona (right).

In white/blue: Alex Produkt.

Alex Produkt (in white/blue). All white character is by unknown artist.

ROC514 in bottom left corner. Also shows tags by Five Eight and others.

ROC514 in bottom left corner. Also shows drawings by Cryote (in black) and Monkey King (in blue) and paste-ups by Stela and Swarm in the bottom right corner. See next photo for close-up of the latter paste-ups.

Paste-ups by Stela (left) and Swarm (right).

Paste-ups by Zu (left) and Swarm (right).

Paste-up by Zu (top) and Monkey King sticker (bottom).

Paste-up by Zu.

Stela on pasted doilie.

Stela on pasted doilie.

Stela on pasted doilie.

Stela on pasted doilie.

Paste-ups by Stela and Selena Gomez presumably vandalised by someone who disapproves of their message.

Paste-up for Decolonizing Street Art.

Paste-up for Decolonizing Street Art.

Presumably by Bubz.

Graffiti by Sayko, and paste-up by Baubô in top left corner.

Greasy Jim graffiti.

Graffiti by House.

Grams throw.

A quick one by Gawd.

Stencil by Dookie3.

Stencil by Dookie3.

Stencil by Dookie3.

Pnda

Pnda

Clay piece by Zenka at the St-Viateur end of the alley.

Waxhead

Waxhead in red, amongst lots of tags.

Waxhead in red, amongst lots of tags. Artists responsible for the blue piece and the white character above it is unknown.

Unidentified artist.

Bubz?

Swarm paste-up in air vent.

Same air vent as above, Pnda in blue, stickers by unidentified artist (black) and Tik Tok (white and purple).

Unidentified artist.

Yolacocacola

Artist unknown.

Artist unknown.

Artist unknown.

Artist unknown.

Artist unknown.

Artist unknown.

Artist unknown.

Sam.

Toobad, with tags from Greasy Jim, Nestor, Hitem, etc.

It looks this is Pnda’s playground. White character is by unidentified artist.

Meat.

Artist unknown.

Chalk tag by You Go Girl.

Chalk tag by You Go Girl.

Stickers and drawings by unidentified artists.

Paste-ups and stickers by Bird (top), ROC514 and Sien514 (pumpkins), Swarm (right of pumpkins), Waxhead (bottom left), Turtle Caps (bottom centre) and Fortin Marchand (bottom right).

Stickers by unidentified artists.


Above St-Viateur

Wheatpastes by Stikki Peaches (left) and Graffiti Knight (right). Mock ‘record and needle’ on the far right is by unknown artist.

Wheatpaste by Graffiti Knight.

Wheatpastes by WhatIsAdam aka WIA.

Poster by Muesli.

This is presumably by Snail from the WC Crew.

Wheatpaste by G.Knight.

Kat poster.

Unknown artist.

Unknown artist.

Listen

Cash4.

Stickers by Tik Tok (left) and unidentified artist (right).

Lily Luciole

Lily Luciole is a Parisian artist who was quite active in Montreal until she returned to Paris in the middle of 2016. Her main medium was wheatpasting. She is a socially and politically conscious artist who has pasted for OffmuralEs and alongside other socio-politically involved artists and collectives such as Swarm, Zola and the Decolonizing Street Art movement.

For more information on the artist, and for many more photos than what is found in the image gallery below, check out Lilyluciole.com as well as her Facebook, Flickr and Tumblr pages.

Lily Luciole est une artiste Parisienne ayant été très active dans les rues de Montréal jusqu’à son retour en France en 2016. Elle s’est exprimée dans les rues de notre ville principalement via ses collages. Elle est très engagée socialement et politiquement, ayant collé pour OffmuralEs ou aux côtés d’autres artistes et collectifs engagés tels que Swarm, Zola et le mouvement Decolonizing Street Art.

Pour plus d’information sur cette artiste, et pour beaucoup plus de photos que ce qui est présenté dans la galerie ci-dessous, vous êtes invités à jeter un coup d’oeil à Lilyluciole.com ou à ses pages Facebook, Flickr et Tumblr.


A wheatpaste with wool from 2019.

A wheatpaste with wool from 2019.

Contribution to the Cabane à sucre secret gallery.

Poster in Mile End.

Poster in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Poster in Mile End.

Poster in Mile End.

Large poster in Mile End.

Wheatpaste found on Clark. Also partly visible: Mimi for OffmuralEs (bottom left) and Baubô (right).

Wheatpaste found on one of St-Laurent’s many abandoned businesses. Stickers centre right to bottom right are by someone representing Decolonizing Street Art, Waxhead and ROC514.

Wheatpastes and posters by Lily Luciole (left), Decolonizing Street Art (flag) and 2U4U ByU (right).

Turtle Caps (painted) and Lily Luciole (pasted birds) in abandoned church; photo © Lily Luciole.

Collaboration with Swarm in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Collaboration with Swarm in Petite-Patrie.

This wheatpaste was found on De Gaspé.

Lily Luciole and Swarm collaboration wheatpaste for OffmuralEs.

This wheatpaste was found on Duluth.

Poster found in Hochelaga.

Poster found in Hochelaga.

What’s left of this wheatpaste was found on Laurier.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark. Stickers top left are by Tik Tok and Cif.

This was found on St-Denis but other copies were found elsewhere.

On St-Laurent door. The background is wallpaper created by Turtle Caps.

Another door on St-Laurent. This one has paste-ups by Swarm (and a lot of tags) over it. Paste-up in bottom right corner is by ROC514.

Nature is taking over this one found in a Mile End alley.

Alex Produkt

Alex Produkt’s main means of expression on the streets of Montreal is painting and drawing. He’s also pasted some of his work, but I’ve unfortunately never been able to photograph any of it. There are therefore no wheatpastes in the gallery below. He shines on canvas even more than he does on city walls, a rare thing among our street artists in my opinion. Actually, I love his studio work so much, I can only imagine what he could come up with if he was given a big wall and enough time to cover it with scenes and characters from his crazy imagination. Meanwhile, learn more on the artist and check out his studio work on his Facebook, Instagram (Alex Produkt) and Instagram (Ricky Tuesday) pages. See him at work in “End Orphans”, a 10-minute short film directed in 2014 by Ian lagarde.

Dans les rues et ruelles de Montréal, Alex Produkt crée surtout des pièces murales et des dessins. Il a aussi pratiqué le collage, mais je n’ai pas encore eu la chance de prendre une de ses oeuvres collées en photo, ce qui explique l’absence de collage dans la galerie ci-dessous. Il brille encore plus sur canevas que sur les murs de notre ville, un phénomène rare parmi nos artistes street selon moi. En fait, son travail en studio me fascine tellement que je ne peux qu’imaginer ce qu’il en serait si on lui donnait un grand mur et assez de temps pour le couvrir de scènes et personnages issus de son imagination. D’ici là, vous pouvez en apprendre un peu sur l’artiste et voir de quoi il est capable sur toile en visitant ses pages Facebook, Instagram (Alex Produkt) et Instagram (Ricky Tuesday). Vous pouvez aussi le voir à l’oeuvre dans “End Orphans”, un cours film réalisé par Ian Lagarde en 2014.


In Mile End.

Contribution to the 2019 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

On a Mile End alley door.

For the 2018 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

On a Plateau End alley door.

In a Mile End alley.

Semi-official contribution to the 2014 edition of Mural Festival, in narrow alley behind Duluth. Unfortunately this piece was painted over by the owner of the wall within a month or two of its creation.

Contribution to a Chromatic block party.

In St-Henri.

Contribution to the Cabane à sucre secret gallery (sorry, I didn’t manage to get a great shot of this). Also visible top left: Citizan.

Produkt (left) and Tyler K Rauman (right) for the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

From left to right: Mono Sourcil, Labrona, Turtle Caps, Produkt. For the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Contribution to the 2015 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Labrona (top and bottom centre), Gawd (bottom right) and Produkt (bottom left) in alley off St-Denis. See close-up of Produkt’s contribution next.

Detail of above mural showing Produkt’s contribution.

In alley between St-Laurent and Clark, near Fairmount. Blue paste-up in the top right corner is by Pnda.

Produkt (white bovine head in top half), Rage5 (bottom right wheatpaste), Waxhead (bottom left drawing) as well as piece by unknown artist (centre left) and lots of tags. In alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Produkt (top half), Labrona (bottom half) and a quickie by Snail from the WC Crew in the top left corner.

Produkt (left) and Labrona (right).

Produkt’s contributions (in white/blue) to this door are surrounded by pieces from Labrona (bottom), Other (top right), Gawd (centre left) and unidentified artist (top left).

Produkt (centre creature plus text) and Meat (little pink worm).

Produkt (top half) with Cryote (bottom left) and, presumably, Waxhead (bottom right).

In alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Produkt (main piece in white/blue) and unidentified artist (bottom right) in alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In a Mile End alley.

Produkt (in white/blue plus text above) and unidentified artist (all white) in alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Back of information panel for the 2015 edition of Mural Festival.

Back of information panel for the 2016 edition of Mural Festival.

For the 2017 edition of MTL En Arts.

In Mile End.

In Mile-Ex.

Echoes of what once was, on Beaubien.