Femme Fierce returned for it’s 2016 and it’s third annual outing in the Leake Street tunnel. This year though it was on a lesser scale from previous events and not this time taking place on International Women’s Day.

Instead the 2016 version was more of a decent sized paint jam with a variety of artists, male as well as female painting at spots in the tunnel. Gone was the background colour scheme and extras of recent years but that didn’t seem to matter to the artists who took part or the visitors who came to watch.

Tattu by her wall

Artists from around the World

Still artists from all over the World and the UK turned up to paint with people coming from as far afield as France, Austria, Italy, Spain, Dubai and Finland. A variety of backgrounds were included too with what might be described as more traditional street art being combined with graffiti writing.

In fact, although it wouldn’t have been immediately obvious, there were two events running simultaneously, with the Femme Fierce 2016 artists competing for space alongside as a smaller collective of artists who had banded under the banner of ‘The Artists’, the latter being a mixed gender crew. The pictures from all the works are included in the gallery below.

Work in progress from Kamilla Lucarelli

Femme Fierce 2016

For us here at Inspiring City it was still a great day with some great art. Although if Femme Fierce is going to happen again to the extent that it has done in previous years, then it really will need to go back to it’s original date of March to coincide with International Women’s Day. There the combination of female street artists with the publicity that the day brings, really manages to generate the interest of the press and the public alike.

This time there were a few standouts in terms of artists for me, Tattu from France and Kamilla Lucarelli from Italy created some impressive pieces and it was the first time I’d managed to see both of these artists in action. From the more traditional graffiti side, another artist I’d not come across before, Rubie from Leeds, impressed with her lettering.

Rubie a graffiti writer from Leeds

There’s no doubt that Femme Fierce is a great event with a strong brand and even with a low key setup it still has the potential to capture the imagination of the public. Fingers crossed next year it will be back to business as usual because when it works, Femme Fierce is one of the biggest and best street art events out there.

Femme Fierce took place on Saturday 7 May 2016 in the Leake Street Tunnel in Waterloo. It is the third consecutive event that the event has been held. To see art from Femme Fierce 2014 and Femme Fierce 2015 click on the links.

Femme Fierce 2016 Gallery

Finished piece from Dala

Dala from Sheffield

Finished piece from Rubie

Rubie finishing off her piece

Kaleidoscope Eyes hanging out at the end of the tunnel

Completed piece from Kaliedoscope Eyes

Unity finishing off her wall

Tattu finishing the detail on her wall

Tattu in action

Mondi next to her piece

Jane Mutiny

Jane Mutiny in action

Piece from Giulia Menny Cosco

Eroica from Spain

Dina Saadi work in progress

Dina Saadi

Work in progress from Dina Saadi

Georgie by her finished wall

Georgie Painter in action

Nora Helsinki working on her piece

The outside of the tunnel with work from Nora Helsinki in the foreground

Miss Hazard finished piece

Miss Hazard piece with the tunnel

Peachez next to her Flamingo

Peachez work in progress

Aliss Curtis

Aliss finishing off her piece

Finished piece from Noba

Finished work from Thingie

Thingie in action

Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts – ODK

JDK painting in the same location as last year

Completed piece from Bea Toa

Work from Bea Toa next to a tag wall

Work in progress from Kamilla Lucarelli

Kamilla Lucarelli in silhouette

Piece from Brighton based Andromeda

Work form Evay

Completed piece from Thunderc_unt

Work in progress from Giusi Tomasello

Giusi’s finished work in the tunnel

Sophy Nails in action

Sophy Nails respect

Piece advertising Mimmit Peinttaa by Rosa Kivinen the all female street art event happening on 20th August 2016 in Finland

Models pose before the unfinished work from Rosa Kivinen

Not sure who this artist is any ideas please let me know

Cat and mouse from Avalele

Work from Thingie and Fane next to each other

Fane

Piece from KitKat Taylor

And it wasn’t just the female artists taking part in the paint jam

An origami gun from Airborne Mark

Airborne Mark painted an Origami gun in the tunnel

Model poses by the entrance to the tunnel

Work from Perspicere with one of the pieces created in the alternative event

A model poses by an unfinished wall

Grafeeney with a wall he painted in the Leake Street Tunnel during Femme Fierce

Model next to work from Olivier Robieu

Models pose by work from Oliver Robieu whilst the artist watches on

Street arts sucks – it must be true it’s written down

The Tunnel

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