This feature first appeared in Condé Nast Traveller December 2014
France’s answer to Banksy, C215 (real name Christian Guémy) uses stencils to create his portraits, focusing on the elderly, homeless people and street kids, seen here in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Italian artist RUN at work in Shenzhen, China.
Brazilian twin brothers OSGEMEOS create cartoonish figures such as this 25-metre Giant on the side of a school in Chelsea, New York.
Mademoiselle Maurice uses a rainbow of origami to create artworks such as this one in San Francisco.
Warsaw-based NeSpoon experiments with ceramics, stencils and crochet webbing in her lace creations, which she calls ‘public jewellery’.
Reykjavik has a thriving street-art scene, including this mushroom mural on Hverfisgata by local Sara Riel.
Five-man collective Boamistura see their art as social intervention, bringing colour to neglected spots including this underpass in their home town, Madrid.
This summer, the Parisian Galerie Itinerrance invited 150 street artists – including eL Seed, known for his Arabic calligraphy – to transform the village of Erriadh on the Tunisian island of Djerba into an open-air gallery.
Urban origami from Mademoiselle Maurice on San Francisco’s Baker Beach.
Sara Riel’s giant acorn on Laugavegur in Reykjavik.
In Hamar, Norway, Boamistura painted a giant carpet onto a car park, inspired by knitwear patterns.
In Washington DC, the artist HENSE turned a derelict church into an installation, applying paint with brushes, rollers, sprayers and mops.
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