With well over 200 street artists descending upon the city this year, Southend City Jam was larger than ever.
Over three jam-packed days, the festival featured 100 painted walls, pop-up cubes and over 24 artists doing their thing LIVE at a pop-up park in the high street.
In addition to the wall art there were a vast array of stalls and live music performances happening around the city too.
Each year local, national and international street artists transform a number of permanent and temporary walls around the City Centre and Seafront.
From the sides of buildings to temporary walls, no surface is safe and this year, Southend City Jam even headed out to sea with a new wall on the pier!
In the 1980s, the city of Southend had a rich collection of talented graffiti artists and quickly become a sub cultural hub of graffiti, that more recently morphed into the street art scene.
Southend City Jam is organised by Southend-on-Sea City Council and Southend Tourism Partnership, alongside local artists Karl Sims and Steve Hart to showcase the best that the urban art movement has to offer from around the world, enhancing and enriching the lives of residents and visitors.
To find out more about the festival and some of the artists that took part, visit www.southendcityjam.co.uk.
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