Flow Wins France Street Art Prize
Flow's "Samouraï & Dragon" mural in Calais won France's top street art prize in the Golden Street Art contest, generating 1.6K likes and 208 reposts. The victory highlights the growing recognition of street art as legitimate cultural expression in France. Meanwhile, Harlow Council's MurWalls LIVE event on March 14 will feature 50+ artists with live music performances.
- The Golden Street Art prize won by Flow is in its 12th year and the 2025 edition initially featured 59 competing murals from across France. - The winning artist, Florian de Elizondo, who goes by the name Flow, is from Bayonne. - Flow's "Samouraï & Dragon" mural can be found at 161 rue de Valenciennes in Calais. - The final winner was determined through a combination of votes from a jury of nine photographers, which accounted for 70% of the score, and a public online vote that made up the remaining 30%. - The runner-up in the contest was an artist named Zag for a piece in Plonévez-du-Faou, followed by Studio Giftig's mural in Boulogne-sur-Mer in third place. - MurWalls, the entity behind the Harlow event, is a commercial art company that has created promotional murals for major films like "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" and for musical artists such as Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift. - Beyond high-profile commissions, MurWalls is also involved in community projects in Harlow, including installations at local schools and a mural at The Princess Alexandra Hospital to commemorate the COVID-19 pandemic. - MurWalls is based at the Arise Innovation Hub in Harlow, which is associated with Anglia Ruskin University, and they have expressed interest in nurturing young artistic talent.
