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Thursday doors – 15 May 2025 – Copenhagen doors, Denmark

Doors 307 – Copenhagen, Denmark (part VII), September 2024

Eek! I have had quite a disrupted week this week, spending Monday and Tuesday in Leeds/Bradford/Saltaire, and I have lost my rhythm. I can’t believe it is already Thursday, and naturally I am ill prepared for Thursday Doors, other than that I clearly have a vast archive of doors in the pipeline. Furthermore, I had forgotten that Dan is having a rest from Thursday Doors this week, but that he will be including submissions in his Sunday roundup.

Today’s selection of doors I think will be the penultimate entry from Copenhagen, and I am already looking forward to which doors to follow up with. This week’s doors are from the North West and West of Copenhagen, continuing along the banks of the artificial lakes and into some rather more Bohemian areas of the city. Here we go:

Community sharing spaces with rather tatty doors, Wesselsgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2024

Red door for clothes swapping and sharing space, Wesselsgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2024

Yellow door for book swapping, Wesselsgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2024

Street library with glass doors, Wesselsgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2024

The perfect door and bicycle combination, Ewaldsgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2024

Wonderful blue door 'Brandvej' = fire lane, Wesselsgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2024 — Wonderful blue door ‘Brandvej’ = fire lane, Ewaldsgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2024

Beautifully framed door with window above, Ewaldsgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2024

Stunning door surround, Vesterbrogade, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2024

Black doors in an arched doorway, Viktoriagade, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2024

Fine blue door with a kick board and glass panels, Sonder Boulevard, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2024

Although the variety of doors in Copenhagen is vast, as vast as any other city, there is a distinct local style, particularly in the architecture surrounding the doors, that is so different from our doors in England, and elsewhere. The joy of Thursday Doors, vive la différence.

If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.

6909. East Street

This is another outstanding piece of paste up work from Tian in East Street. Not only is the subject beautifully worked, but the placement, inside a phone booth, is perfect. The cut-out is taken from a piece of work called ‘Combative Jaq’… I’m not sure that I know too much more about it.

I love the sepia tints contrasting with the blues of the woman’s clothes. The selection of the photograph and the alteration of it is superb. I realise that wheatpastes are not to everyone’s taste, particularly the authorities, but they are a darn sight better than the stream of advertising posters and hoardings that we are subjected to on every street in every town and city.

6908. Cheltenham Road

Rowdy, Cheltenham Road, Bristol, April 2025

It is very possible that this piece by Rowdy on the shopfront of Don Majors is the closest piece of street art to my home. It is not the first time that Rowdy has decorated this shop, and he has done another great job. The piece is slightly less busy than his last one here, looking a little bit smarter.

Rowdy is known for his crocodiles and his cats, and has an incredibly distinctive style. His pieces tend to pop up all over the city and are without doubt part of the USP of Bristol’s street art scene, and have been for many years. This cat is looking ever so slightly mischievous – a naughty cat.

Rowdy, Cheltenham Road, Bristol, February 2023

Sand Martin

Deep in Leeds centre

sand martins sound their return

railway arches sing

by Scooj

6910. East Street

Mr Crawls and Mote, East Street, Bristol, April 2025

On my wanderings in the East Street area of Bedminster, looking for Tian Paste ups, I came across this hoarding with a few treats on it. I think that this collaboration was painted last year when Mote and Mr Crawls were in full flow, painting together frequently all over the city.

Mr Crawls, East Street, Bristol, April 2025

To the left, the Mr Crawls character is quite unlike anything I have seen from him before, although his underlying style is unmistakable. The rather strange monster, in great green tones, is perhaps most notable for its psychedelic eyes, and ‘puckered’ upper lip.

Mote is no stranger to painting monsters, and here he has assembled five one-eyed beasts is some of his favoured colours. The chrome background for the collaboration gives me a pretty good date range (a little bit like carbon dating), which they first introduced at the end of 2023. A satisfying find.

6906. Moon Street (107)

Cartoonneros, Moon Street, Bristol, April 2025

Since developers moved into the area around Moon Street, I don’t visit all that often, and driving around there is a bit of a nightmare, so I generally only visit when I am on foot. I had a lovely surprise on my last visit, finding this stencil piece by Cartoonneros.

I don’t know if the piece is new or old, but the artist does seem to visit Bristol sporadically – maybe he has friends here. Furthermore, I don’t know who the character portrayed in the stencil is, but it has all the hallmarks of a Cartoonneros piece. The black lines of the stencil are sprayed over a patchwork of orange and yellow paint, creating the unique look that the artist has perfected. A reward for keeping my eyes open.

Mobile view

Northbound train journey

two fields of russet ground crops

small puffy white clouds

by Scooj

6905. The Carriageworks (49)

Hemper, The Carriageworks, Bristol, April 2025

When I first started out noticing street art in Bristol, and subsequently writing about it, The Carriageworks was my ‘go to’ spot to find some really classy work. Alas, the gentrification of Stokes Croft, eliminated half of the spot, and what remains is rarely painted. How pleasing it was to see this beauty from Hemper, and a piece adjacent to it by Kid Krishna (posted).

It took me a couple of attempts to photograph this piece, because the first time I went there was a van partially covering up the writing, but I photographed it nonetheless just to make sure I had it in the can. These pictures are a much cleaner version and really highlight the magnificent of this extraordinary graffiti writing from Hemper, who has been on a roll this spring (a spring roll, if you like🙂). There is so much colour, beautifully blended, and a perfectly painted contrasting blue and black drop shadow. Another masterpiece of graffiti writing from Hemper.

6904. Dean Lane skate park (828)

Fade, Jody and Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, April 2025

Here we have yet another epic production collaboration from Fade, Jody and Dibz, who have been knocking it out of the park for a couple of years now, creating some breathtaking triptychs from the two writers and the ‘character’ artist.

I watched them for a short while while they painted this piece, and while the two writers were well advanced with their work, Jody’s skull portrait was still some way off. On the left, Fade has produced some gorgeous ‘lava’ letters tinged with some turquoise highlights and some purple smoke plumes. His letters look like CREAM, but I can’t be sure.

The centrepiece is an outstanding screaming skull by Jody. He really is a most talented artist, both in his studio work and his street art. His technique is simply awesome, and he manages to create such depth and texture with the deft strokes of the spray can. Brilliant stuff.

Dibz, to the right, mirrors the colours of Fade, as is so often the case with these production pieces. The letters spell DIBZ, a little easier than Fade’s to read, and contain the same hot lava look. The triptych as a whole has a searing heat about it, as if the poor soul in the middle is trapped in hell. Outstanding collaboration.

6903. St Werburghs tunnel (493)

This is a delightfully clean and crisp piece by Werm, whose symmetrical pieces are a well known sight in the various graffiti spots around Bristol. I particularly like this one with its delightful colour scheme, and the boldness of it set on a white background.

It is well worth getting up close and taking a proper look at the letter fills in this piece, the overall colour is a blend of reds from dark to light, and running through the midline is a wonderful continuous orange line… a golden thread through the piece. This is a very attractive piece by Werm, that unfortunately only lasted a short time.

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