New Street Art That Brings the Wall to Life (14 Photos, Vol. 44)

August 27, 2026
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Nick Sweetman’s North American porcupine mural in Lac-Édouard, Canada, beside Dan Ferrer’s mural of a child stacking blocks in Waterford, Ireland.

Fourteen new works from around the world

This volume includes a child in an astronaut suit carrying a terrarium, a girl looking across the sea, a rain-soaked street glowing with reflections, a giant porcupine, a painted court and several portraits. Tap Love beneath the works you like most.


Saving the Planet mural by Jerome Davenport in Fremantle, showing a child in an astronaut suit carrying a glass terrarium of plants as a forest burns behind her.

🪐 “Saving the Planet” — Jerome Davenport in Fremantle, Australia 🇦🇺

Painted in January 2026 at The Piazza in Fremantle, “Saving the Planet” shows a young child in an astronaut suit carrying a glass terrarium of living plants while a forest burns behind her. It asks viewers what part they can play in protecting the environment for future generations.

🔗 Follow Jerome Davenport on Instagram.


Pink and yellow mural by Moi Martos in La Vellés, Spain, showing a seated man beside a large dog.

🐕 A Quiet Moment With a Dog — Moi Martos in La Vellés, Spain 🇪🇸

A seated man and a large dog share the wall in warm pink, burgundy and yellow. Martos’s finished-wall photographs show how the two figures stretch across the long facade at Camino de Carbajosa 19.

Created for the municipality’s first La Vellés mural competition, which invited contemporary responses to the culture, landscape and rural life of La Armuña.

🔗 Follow Moi Martos on Instagram.


Raccolto mural by Andrea Emeid Ranieri in Furore, Italy, showing many hands holding a cluster of green grapes.

🍇 “Raccolto” — Andrea Emeid Ranieri in Furore, Italy 🇮🇹

“Raccolto” (“Harvest”) shows many hands around a large cluster of green grapes. Strong light picks out the hands and grapes against the dark wall.

Part of Furore Street Art 2026, with Bufera Studio and the Comune di Furore.

💡 What We Could Verify: Furore’s mural tradition dates to 1982, when Italian and international artists began turning the town into what became one of Italy’s recognized “painted villages.”

🔗 Follow Andrea Emeid Ranieri on Instagram.


Indoor portrait mural by BeRiE Balboa in Dresden, Germany, surrounded by painted hands and red graphic forms.

✋ A Portrait Surrounded by Hands — BeRiE Balboa in Dresden, Germany 🇩🇪

Painted hands and angular red, black and cream forms surround a pale portrait. BeRiE describes it as part of a larger room-sized work about who is watching whom.

Created for House of Colors, a temporary urban-art project inside two vacant apartment blocks at Nicolaistraße 18–20 ahead of their planned demolition.

🔗 Follow BeRiE Balboa_ZNC on Instagram.


North American porcupine mural by Nick Sweetman covering a wooden building at Le SAN in Lac-Édouard, Canada.

🔵 A North American Porcupine Takes Over the Cabin — Nick Sweetman in Lac-Édouard, Canada 🇨🇦

Sweetman identifies the animal as a North American porcupine, Canada’s only porcupine species. Its quills fan across the weathered boards while the eyes, snout and orange incisors align with the cabin doors.

Created during Retraite d’épinette 2026 for Canettes d’épinette at Le SAN – Station boréale. Le SAN says the former sanatorium adds new large-scale murals through the festival each year.

🔗 Follow Nick Sweetman on Instagram.


Yaya — La mer. la mère mural by Hanna Lucatelli Santos in Boulogne-sur-Mer, showing a seated woman with a fishing net and paper fish.

🌊 “Yaya — La mer. la mère” — Hanna Lucatelli Santos in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France 🇫🇷

The woman sits with a fishing net spread across her lap, folding paper fish. Lucatelli told the festival that the scene connects Boulogne’s fishing identity with manual work and passing knowledge on. She also wanted to bring a free, unsexualized female presence into public space.

Lucatelli completed the mural near Lycée Mariette on Rue Beaurepaire for Festival Street Art Boulogne-sur-Mer.

🔗 Follow Hanna Lucatelli Santos on Instagram.


Mural by Mariana Duarte Santos at the Centro Social do Mar in Bueu, based on José Suárez’s 1936 photograph of two fishermen.

🌊 “Watching the sea” — Mariana Duarte Santos in Bueu, Spain 🇪🇸

For “Watching the sea”, Duarte Santos enlarged a 1936 photograph from José Suárez’s Mariñeiros series across the side wall of the Centro Social do Mar. The Concello’s mural catalogue says Suárez made the source image in Bueu itself.

Commissioned by Concello de Bueu as part of the town’s 2026 José Suárez program.

💡 What We Could Verify: Suárez was also filming a documentary titled Mariñeiros when the 1936 military uprising forced him into exile. He completed the film in Argentina with additional scenes shot near Mar del Plata, but no surviving copy is known.

🔗 Follow Mariana Duarte Santos on Instagram.


The Foundations mural by Dan Ferrer at Our Little Treasures in Waterford, showing a child stacking bright blocks marked Respect, Love and Education.

🧱 “The Foundations” — Dan Ferrer in Waterford, Ireland 🇮🇪

At Our Little Treasures childcare centre, a child stacks bright blocks marked RESPECT, LOVE and EDUCATION. Ferrer calls the finished mural “The Foundations”.

Created for Waterford Walls with Instituto Cervantes Dublin, which brought Ferrer to the 2026 festival as its guest artist. Managed by The Walls Project.

🔗 Follow Dan Ferrer on Instagram.


Collage supplied by the source showing a turquoise-and-pink portrait painted by Marcus GOMAD Debie beside Ultrareser’s “CHAS” graffiti piece in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

🎨 Two Styles on One Wall — Marcus GOMAD Debie and Ultrareser in Eindhoven, Netherlands 🇳🇱

GOMAD’s turquoise-and-pink portrait sits beside a “CHAS” piece by Ultrareser. Ultrareser describes it as a name exchange: he painted CHAS while Chas Loveletters painted RESER. The work was created for Step Out the Arena 2026. The collage supplied by the source shows the shared wall and a closer view of GOMAD’s portrait.

More by Marcus GOMAD Debie: “Violets Are Blue” in Calais, France.

🔗 Follow Marcus GOMAD Debie and Ultrareser on Instagram.


The Quays mural by Dan Kitchener at the Tower Hotel in Waterford, showing wet pavement glowing with traffic, sunset color and reflections.

🌧️ “The Quays” — Dan Kitchener in Waterford, Ireland 🇮🇪

The mural shows wet pavement, traffic and red reflections in Waterford. Painted on the Tower Hotel, “The Quays” is based on photographs Kitchener took on the evening he arrived in the city in 2024. He also says it contains a couple of hidden Easter eggs.

More glowing walls: Murals That Belong to the Night Shift.

Created for Waterford Walls. Managed by The Walls Project.

🔗 Follow Dan Kitchener on Instagram.


Harbor mural by Seth Globepainter in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, showing a girl looking across the water with Skansin lighthouse above her head.

🔭 A Girl Looks Across the Harbor — Seth Globepainter in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands 🇫🇴

On a harbor wall at Molin in Tórshavn, the lighthouse from historic Skansin rises above a girl looking across the water. We Need Art notes that the figures in her sweater form the traditional Faroese chain dance. It was one of six murals Seth created for the project’s first year in the Faroe Islands.

💡 What We Could Verify: The Faroese chain dance descends from Central Europe’s medieval ring-dance tradition. Its orally transmitted ballads helped preserve and develop the Faroese language when written Faroese sources were scarce.

More by Seth: 8 Times Seth Painted What Childhood Really Feels Like.

🔗 Follow Seth Globepainter on Instagram.


Painted sports court by Shon Price and Joram Roukes at CBS De Koning in Enschede, showing a rearing horse carrying an FC Twente player.

🏀 A Horse and Footballer on a Painted Court — Shon Price and Joram Roukes in Enschede, Netherlands 🇳🇱

At CBS De Koning, a rearing horse based on Twente’s regional emblem stands above the word DREAMS. It carries an FC Twente player holding Enschede’s flag. Price says the design grew from a workshop with pupils and neighborhood youth. Local reporting confirms that children also helped paint the combined football and 3×3 basketball court.

Created through Dreamcourts.

🔗 Follow Shon Price and Joram Roukes on Instagram.


Solar-eclipse mural by Alegría del Prado in Lodoso, Spain, joining a woman’s profile with constellations and local wildlife.

🦉 A Human Profile, Constellations and Local Wildlife — Alegría del Prado in Lodoso, Spain 🇪🇸

Painted at Calle Real 75, the mural commemorates the total solar eclipse of 12 August 2026. Alegría del Prado says the mural connects the cosmos and life. The eclipse forms an axis between its solar and lunar sides, with constellations and local wildlife spread across the wall.

🔗 Follow Alegría del Prado on Instagram.


Blue-eyed portrait mural by Scaeone painted in blue, red, black and white on a low outdoor wall.

👁️ A Quick Portrait at the Park — Scaeone

Scae describes this spray-painted work as a “quick portrait at the park.” The face is painted in blue, red, black and white, with visible drips and loose strokes around the detailed eyes.

🔗 Follow Scaeone on Instagram.


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