The Art of Flying was a free exhibition about fly-posting, held at 1 Quaker Street in Shoreditch from 31 October to 4 November 2025. It grew out of an oral history project recording the people who worked as commercial fly-posters in the UK between 1973 and 1993, pasting gig, club and record posters onto walls and hoardings.
What was in it
The show was spread over three spaces at Quaker Street, known as The Sandbox, The CarWash and The Platform. It used photographs, film, recorded interviews and printed booklets from the project, six of a planned twelve.
Screen printing
Jealous Gallery ran free screen-printing sessions on 1 and 2 November. Visitors printed a reworking of an Atelier Populaire poster by the cartoonist Martin Rowson, then pasted it up at The Platform.
Fly-posting in Shoreditch today
Posters, paste-ups and stickers are still part of the street art around Brick Lane, Redchurch Street and Great Eastern Street. Fly-posting on property without permission is an offence, and councils remove posters regularly, so most paste-ups in the area do not last long. The Shoreditch street art walk covers the streets where they appear most.
The essentials
- Exhibition: The Art of Flying
- Where: 1 Quaker Street, London E1
- When: 31 October to 4 November 2025 (closed)
- Project site: manfromuncle.info