London Free Walls

London Free Walls brought mural painting into East London’s streets, using existing walls as places for artists to work at public scale. The programme connects with a neighbourhood in which images are encountered alongside shops, houses and the changing surfaces of the city.

The works bring distinct approaches to drawing and painting into direct contact with architecture. Scale, position and the texture of a wall become part of each composition, while the surrounding street determines how and when it is seen.

Within SAN Projects’ public-art practice, London Free Walls represents an approach grounded in individual sites and artist relationships. The city provides both the surface and the audience, allowing the work to become part of daily routes rather than a separate destination.