Beyond The Walls | Street Art + Travel

This newsletter is my favourite way to stay in touch. It’s a more intimate and more direct way to connect with you than through social networks.

What to expect…

✨ Exclusive insights and interviews with street artists and art professionals

✨ Thought-provoking essays on key topics in the street art scene, inspired by recent events

✨ Travel tips to help you explore off the beaten path

✨ The latest stories and updates from the world of street art

✨ Curated picks of must-read links, books, films, and more

✨ Be the first to know about my upcoming street art trips and book releases

Stories that remain untold in the streets

You are in the right place if you want to learn the language that is spoken on the walls of your city, on the train you take to get to work in the morning, and in the urban fabric you are a part of and move through.

Every month, on the 1st, I send out an editorial that looks at how graffiti and street art are reshaping our cities. These essays go beyond cataloguing artworks: they dig into the questions behind them: gentrification, disneyfication, copyright battles, documentation, the impact of the digital age, and more.

Too often, street art is presented as pure spectacle, stripped of its conflicts and contradictions. My newsletter does the opposite. It keeps those tensions visible and asks what is really at stake: Who owns the city? Who gets to speak on its walls? How is dissent transformed when it is turned into branding or lifestyle content?

I see these monthly editorials as a space to resist the sanitization of urban art, to insist that the streets remain political. The city’s walls are not decoration. They are contested ground, and by reading them closely we learn more about the struggles, voices, and dynamics that shape urban life today.

Ciao, I’m Giulia Blocal, your street art insider 😉

I’m a writer specialised in street art and graffiti, founder of the travel and street art website www.blocal-travel.com (Est. 2011)

I design and create content to unveil the creative and rebellious soul of a city. I am an editor, content creator, consultant, writer, copywriter, urban guide, and travel designer.

I’m the author of the street art books As Seen on the Streets of London and As Seen on the Street of Paris, which provides a fresh perspective on the city's street art culture, featuring insights from local street artists alongside my favorite off-the-beaten-path spots.

I have worked and written for museums, art galleries, tour operators, street art festivals, magazines, websites, travel guidebooks, art publishers, urban art blogs, and DMOs (Destination Management Organizations).