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May 2, 2025

Street artist Artist Fanakapan's Rise And Shine Mural in Old Street, London

London street artist Fanakapan recently completed work on a typographic mural next to the Old Street roundabout in East London

Artist Fanakapan’s London Mural
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It’s been some time since we last caught up with the London-based street artist having last featured his work on the site when he painted a hyper-realistic helium balloon mural just off Brick Lane on Heneage Street.

Fanakapan is well known for his hyper-realistic 3-dimensional balloon animals and letters and it’s always exciting to watch the artist at work on something new.

Working over a number of days on the mural in a location where we have previously seen work from London street artist Ben Eine, who painted not one but two murals at the same location.

As is often the case, murals get tagged over, occasionally the street artist will return to that location and repaint something new or they will let the wall go allowing another street artist the opportunity to paint at that spot. The previous mural at this location had been tagged over and the last artists gave up the wall allowing Fanakapan to chance to paint it.

We stopped by to catch some photographs of Fanakapan in action at work painting this mural and building up the layers of colours on the wall to create a 3dimensional effect on the helium balloons giving them a life-like appearance.

The final day of painting saw some last-minute highlights added to make the balloons pop off the wall as well as the addition of some UV paint. The helium balloons have been twisted in such a way as to spell out the message ‘Rise and Shine’ in this new mural.

Fanakapan Rise And Shine print edition
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Fanakapan is planning to release a screen-printed edition of this mural with the typographic collective OurTypes. Alongside the monochrome print edition, Fanakapan is planning to release an edition with hand-finished highlights, as well as a multi-colored UV ink edition that will glow under black light.

At the time of publishing, we do not have a release date for the edition. For those interested, we suggest following the artist on his Fanakapan Instagram account for details on the forthcoming release.

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Artist Fanakapan running a UV blacklight flashlight over the letters of the Rise and Shine mural highlighting the UV elements of the wall as he recorded the mural on film.