Louise Ashcroft

In the wake of the hugely successful Sand, Sea and Spray Festival (Blackpool’s own international graffiti festival), the town is still offering the best access to some world class street artists. This weekend it plays host to Pure Evil. His recent work includes Olympic street art efforts in Hackney, depicting a hooded figure running away with one of the Olympic rings. A very iconic image that could easily be mistaken for the work of Banksy, for those unaware of the variety of artists within this field. Pure Evil also received more recognition after a televised appearance on The Apprentice earlier…

Louise Ashcroft introduces Blackpool's newest pop-up art gallery - artBURST! As the buzz about the Blackpool art scene is increasing, it would appear that more local artists are working in collaboration to share their art with each other and the residents of Blackpool. artBURST is the latest in one of these ventures. It has been created by local artist, Laura Brennan. She had found it difficult to source local venues to showcase her work and had also met with other artists who have had similar problems. Therefore, Laura decided to create a pop-up style exhibition herself and artBURST was born.…