Street Art in Weston-super-Mare

Weston-super-Mare has one of the biggest and best outdoor galleries of street art in the South West. For one week each year, Weston becomes a playground for some of Europe's and the UK's top street artists who come and leave their mark on the town at the Weston Wallz Festival, turning walls into works of art.

UpFest 2026 Weston Wallz Festival 

The 2026 Weston Wallz Upfest festival takes place from 17–26 July. The festival will see around 20 walls across the town being transformed by some super-talented street artists. There will also be a weekend Spray Jam in The Italian Gardens where you can watch them transform giant canvasses into works of art as well as workshops.

Map showing the 2025 locations

Click on this location map to see where the 2025 spray can artists produced their masterpieces and also to see all the murals from the previous years' Weston Wallz Festivals.

Who is painting: Where and When?

Details of the 2026 event will be coming soon! As soon as we know who is painting where and when we will publish the details here so bookmark this page and keep returning to see us. 

It doesn't matter if you miss Paint Week because the artists' work lives on on dozens of walls around the town such as this eye-catching image below from My Dog Sighs.

Spray Jam Weekend

Watch giant-sized canvasses being brought to life at the Spray Jam in the Italian Gardens on the weekend of July 25-26 from 10am until 6pm. Come and see artists who are at the very top of their game create masterpieces right in front of your eyes.

Here below is some of the Spray Jam work previously produced. 

Weston Wallz Free Street Art Workshops

Throughout the Weston Wallz festival there are several free workshops people can get involved in. 

Keep your eyes open

Follow the street art map and you will get a walk like no other. You will be submerged in giant sealife scenes, be watched over by a massive cockrel, see the Weston donkeys immortalised above a bar and, if you can grab a pair of 3D glasses, you will see a giant mural that changes right in front of your very eyes.

So, keep your eyes peeled when you are out and about because you never know what you might see or who might be looking down on you.

You may well get more than you bargained for as well, because inter-mingled with all the Weston Wallz art there is also the JPS Art Trail with its brilliant illustrations and witty captions.

And... before you ask where's Banksy? Yes, we have got a Banksy in Weston-super-Mare. Bansky's pinwheel is currently on loan to Weston Museum and more than worth adding to your walk. So lace up those walking boots and see all these wonderful artworks in person as the sheer size and scale of some of them has to be seen to be believed!

Dismaland and SEE Monster

Weston has a proud recent history for hosting major arts events. In 2015, it hosted Banksy's Dismaland. This temporary project saw the Tropicana building transformed into a wonderfully dreary utopia of artworks and installations from the likes of Banksy, Mike Ross and Damien Hirst. Banksy himself organised the project.

Dismaland was a masterclass in secrecy, it wasn't until the doors opened did we finally realise what we had on our doorstep. Us locals were told that the Tropicana was being used as a film set for a new crime thriller called 'Grey Fox' from a production company called Atlas Entertainment.

Over the period of Dismaland, Weston-super-Mare saw a huge increase in visitor numbers. It was estimated in the first five weeks alone, over 150,000 visitors had passed through the doors. More importantly, it sparked something in the eyes of the world. The spotlight was shining brightly on Weston and it really put us on the map for those looking for a unique home for unique projects. It could be said that the success of Dismaland was one of the reasons why Weston was chosen be part of UNBOXED 2022 and host the colossal SEE MONSTER installation. 

SEE Monster saw a giant decomissioned North Sea oil platform Weighing in at 450 tonnes, that is the equivalent to 65 African Elephants or three Blue Whales, the SEE Monster – a retired North Sea platform – emerged from the sea with a fascinating back story. Part of SEE Monster's story was to get people talking about the issues of re-use, re-purposing and recycling. The final chapter of its sojourn in Weston-super-Mare was to witness it being dismantled and recycled.