Last September, the City Of Colours street art festival saw the blackened walls and crumbling archways of Digbeth transformed overnight into enormous, awe-inspiring artworks by some of the UK’s finest graffiti artists.
In the process, one of the ugliest and bleakest parts of town was converted into a enormous open-air gallery to rival the likes of Melbourne and Bristol.
As the images in the below slideshow show, from a meters-high tortoise being ridden by Darwin, to abstract ‘wild-style’ letterings, cartoon characters and warring dystopian robots, the imaginations of the UK’s best spray-can and stencil talents went truly wild in Digbeth that day.
