A vibrant street art scene

Urban walkway beneath a concrete overpass featuring a vibrant geometric mural with bold shapes and bright colors including yellow, pink, blue, and purple. Two people are walking along the path, and modern buildings and greenery are visible in the background Urban walkway beneath a concrete overpass featuring a vibrant geometric mural with bold shapes and bright colors including yellow, pink, blue, and purple. Two people are walking along the path, and modern buildings and greenery are visible in the background

Like street art? You’ve come to the right place. Walk down almost any street in the city centre and you’ll stumble across a riot of colour interrupting the urban skyline, with many hidden gems waiting to be found round every corner and new pieces emerging all the time.

There are a number of prolific street artists who live in Sheffield, that have transformed bare walls into something beautiful for the city to be proud of. Their variety of styles can be seen here, as well as all over the world - and we have plenty of guest murals painted by artists who have visited the city to create their own mark too.

Image credits on this page to Street Art Sheffield.

Group of people walking down an urban street toward a building with a large mural of two birds perched on branches, painted on the side wall. The mural features natural tones of green and brown, and the surrounding area includes brick buildings, a green shopfront, and modern architecture in the background.

Explore with Street Art Sheffield

The definitive and incredibly up to date low-down for everything street art in Sheffield. Independently-run, Street Art Sheffield's website is the place to go if you're really into hunting down the latest and greatest, even if it's tiny little stencils hidden down the corner of an old factory wall.

They also run tours around the city's street art hotspots from time to time, so if you fancy delving into the scene with some expert insights, sign up to their Eventbrite for tour alerts here. 

Street Art Sheffield website

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The stunning mural, which adorns the side of the Cubo building, overlooking Pound's Park in Sheffield City Centre, was unveiled last month and has been praised by Sheffielders and will now be entered into Street Art Cities' Best Global Street Art of Year, for 2024.

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A mural covers the side of a multi story building depicting a heron and a kingfisher in a river.

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Meet some more of our local artists

Phlegm

Phlegm is arguably Sheffield's most internationally recognised artist. In March and April 2019, he transformed an old cutlery factory on Milton Street, with an incredible large-scale immersive sculpture exhibition, called the Mausoleum of the Giants. 

Bringing to life, the character’s from Phelgm’s world in a way he’d never done before, this incredible exhibition attracted over 12,000 visitors, with people travelling from all over and queuing up to 4 hours to experience it. It was a cultural event the likes of which, Sheffield had never seen before. 

Phlegm keeps his identity anonymous - but his work now adorns walls all over the world.

Find Phlegm works in Sheffield
Large monochrome sculpture of a reclining humanoid figure with elongated limbs and intricate patterns, displayed inside an industrial-style warehouse with exposed beams and machinery.

Peachzz

A graduate of Sheffield Hallam University, Peachzz has worked on commissions across the world and built a reputation for applying her expressive style, with hints of realism and bold colour palettes, to large scale murals.

She recently complete a new large-scale wildlife mural on the side of the Cubo building, overlooking Pound’s Park in Sheffield City Centre.

Believed to be the city's tallest piece of street art and Peachzz's own biggest piece of work to date, the mural scales the full five storeys of the building, standing 25.5 metres high and covering 225 square metres.    

See Peachzz work in Sheffield
A Person wearing a dark hoodie and cap painting a colorful mural on a green brick wall using spray paint, with shades of blue, orange, and white forming abstract shapes. The scene includes a metal railing and leafy trees in the background.

Pete McKee

One of Sheffield's most beloved street artists, Pete has forged an artistic career (self-taught) that has attracted a worldwide following, with a signature style partially influenced by his years as a professional cartoonist. His work explores various themes including working-class culture and humour, with his distinctive characters giving a sense of northern pride. 

See Pete's work in Sheffield
Street art mural on the side of a white building depicting two cartoon-style characters embracing, one wearing an orange coat and flat cap and the other in a purple coat with curly pink hair. The artwork is signed ‘McKee’ and located above a pub called Fagans.

Florence Blanchard

Florence Blanchard is a French artist, based in Sheffield. She began writing graffiti in the early 1990’s under the name Ema, but is now known internationally for her work transforming city spaces with her signature style of flowing, amorphous shapes. Her bright and vivid work is also often directly inspired by her past experience working as a scientist.

See Florence's work in Sheffield
Aerial view of a colorful urban courtyard featuring an abstract geometric mural on the ground with bold shapes in yellow, blue, pink, orange, black, and white. The space includes scattered trees, circular seating areas, and is surrounded by modern buildings and a curved road with parked vehicles.

Kid Acne

A stalwart of the international Street Art movement, Kid Acne has painted large-scale murals across continents and exhibited work extensively over the past two decades. His bold, characterful and distinctive style explores a variety of themes, from colloquialisms and typography, to fantasy, mythology and architecture.

Explore Kid Acne's work in Sheffield
Street art mural on a long brick wall featuring large bold white letters on a black background spelling ‘THAT’S THE SPIRIT’ in an empty parking lot, with modern buildings visible in the background under a cloudy sky.

Jo Peel

Artist Jo Peel is a painter, print maker, animator and film maker, best known for her distinctive line drawings documenting ever changing city landscapes. Inspired by the process of change, particularly the ways in which a city comes to develop its own personality and culture, her bright Sheffield murals evoke a joyful note in urban city life.

Explore Jo's murals in Sheffield
A large mural painted on the side of a brick building depicting an abstract cityscape. The artwork features detailed black-and-white line drawings of buildings, cranes, and architectural elements, accented with bright colors: a turquoise sky, a large pink circle, and pink lines connecting parts of the design. A tree with white branches is included on the right side of the mural. A person is walking along the pavement in front of the artwork.

Faunagraphic

Painting for over 15 years, Faunagraphic has been recognised internationally due to her environmentally driven creative style of Flora and Fauna, advocating the importance of the natural world and bringing beautiful, vibrant artistic creations to increasingly urban societies.

Her work has even been featured on BBC Earth, BBC Countryfile and Spring Watch.

See Faungraphic pieces in Sheffield
Colorful nature-themed mural painted on the side of a building, featuring a green and yellow bird perched on a red mushroom, surrounded by lush green plants. Additional artwork includes badgers among flowers, a blue butterfly, and tall pink foxgloves against a sunset gradient background.

Rob Lee

Rob's bright, bold, and geometric work, often features in large-scale mural commissions and often crosses into the realm of optical art.

He uses pattern, repetition, and abstraction to explore the concepts of perceived reality and illusion, with meticulous attention to detail. 

See Rob's work in Sheffield
Street art murals on adjacent buildings in an urban setting. One mural features bold, colorful geometric shapes with large white text reading ‘NOW THEN.’ The other mural displays flowing rainbow-colored stripes across a wall. Modern buildings and a tall tower block are visible in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Marcus Method

Known for his bold and colourful compositions, Marcus combines his architectural background with his graffiti roots to create unique patterns and intricate designs. 

He has worked with a variety of businesses and organisations, from international brands to community-based projects.

See Marcus' work in Sheffield
Street art mural featuring bold geometric shapes and patterns in vibrant colors including teal, pink, yellow, blue, and black. The design includes triangles, circles, and abstract textures on a black background, painted on an outdoor wall in an urban setting with a tall modern building visible in the background.

Will Rea

His distinctive and almost poetic style won Will a World Illustration Award for his large-scale mural in Orchard Square.

His work combines technical, observational imagery with a colourful nature, reflecting his passion for design and visual communication.

Discover Will's story
Row of connected buildings with pitched roofs featuring a large, colorful mural across the façade. The artwork includes abstract shapes and line drawings in blue, yellow, green, and orange. A sign reading ‘FOOLS GOLD’ is above the entrance to a ground-floor venue, and there is an outdoor seating area with tables and chairs along a raised walkway.

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