My Dog Sighs

<ul><li>My Dog Sighs</li><li>@mydogsighs</li><li><a href="http://mydogsighs.co.uk/">http://mydogsighs.co.uk/</a></li><li>Interview with My Dog Sighs in Street Art 360: <a href="https://streetart360.net/2017/08/30/interview-with-my-dog-sighs/">https://streetart360.net/2017/08/30/interview-with-my-dog-sighs/</a></li><li>My Dog Sighs is an internationally renowned street artist who has been creating urban artwork for more than a decade around the streets of Portsmouth.</li><li>The Southsea artist, real name Paul Stone, first discovered street art through the internet and in order to pursue his passion he created a project encouraging artists to make pieces of art and leave them on the street for members of the public to enjoy and even take home.</li><li>More about Free Art Friday: <a href="https://www.mic.com/articles/30569/free-art-friday-a-global-art-movement-everyone-can-appreciate">https://www.mic.com/articles/30569/free-art-friday-a-global-art-movement-everyone-can-appreciate</a></li><li>Location: 83 Fawcett Rd, Portsmouth, Southsea PO4 0DB.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Freedom Seeds Shutters

<div>My Dog Sighs painted this signature wall during a visit to Melbourne in May 2019. The detail of the pupil of the eye references the silhouette of Luna Park, the local fun park, with its attendant palm trees.</div>

Untitled

<div>A little gift to Bristol by My Dog Sighs painted at the same time as his large collaboration mural with Curtis Hylton on the adjacent wall.</div>

<div>Piece done in a new style that My Dog is playing with at present</div>

<div>My Dog Sighs, from the south coast is better know for his amazing eye myrals. This is a character called Hugs that he also likes to spray, especially on his 'free art friday' pieces.</div>

Hugs

Curtis Hylton

<div>Painted at the end of April 2019, this incredible collaboration was organised by Upfest, as part of a summer of street art in lieu of the Upfest Festival (Europe's largest street art festival) which is taking a gap year in 2019.</div>

<div>Forgotten Project was born in 2015 to enhance Rome’s contemporary architecture through urban art. This year the Forgotten Project focuses on United Kingdom bringing British artists to the open-air museum of Rome.<br><br></div><div>The second edition again will focus on buildings to be converted and invites UK artists Dan Kitchener, Lucy McLauchlan, My Dog Sighs and Phlegm to create murals in Rome. Potsmouth based My Dog Sighs created this gem in the Trastevere district<br><br>The artwork, titled “I still remember how it was before”, is strongly linked to its location. After researching the building from several points of view (architectural, anthropological and social) and studying the transformations it has had over time, My Dog Sighs painted 540 of his iconic eyes, in which there is the reflection of the wall itself and of Rome’s skyline.<br>Portsmouth based My Dog Sighs did an open call in order to collect photos of local people who had a story connected with the hospital, of whom he draw the silhouettes into the reflections in the eyes.<br><em>“Every eye tells the story of the community and of the place that has taken care of each of them. Forgotten Project is an interesting project and to paint the wall I had to understand both the location and the local community first”: explains the artists</em></div>

I still remember how it was before

<ul><li>My Dog Sighs regularly updates this glorious decoration on the French Bakery. It is such a landmark I am sure people will miss it should the building ever get used.</li><li>@mydogsighs</li><li>Currently (5-6-18) with bubbles by AB Original (@_ab_original).</li></ul><div><br><br></div>

French Bakery

<div>One of the largest murals in the city, this piece was commissioned by artist-led, independent printing company Seadog. If you look carefully you can see the reflection in the eye depicts the FA cup win of the local football club in 2008.</div>

Pompey FA Cup Win

<div>On the corner of the car park, opposite the Kwik-Fit</div>

Comunity of quiet little voices

<div>Commissioned by Southern Co-op and the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust as part of their #WilderPortsmouth campaign, featuring real bird boxes "Wild Thing” aims to encourage local people to take action to create and enhance wild spaces where they live.</div>

Wild Thing

<ul><li>My Dog Sighs</li><li>@mydogsighs</li><li><a href="http://mydogsighs.co.uk/">http://mydogsighs.co.uk/</a></li></ul>

Democracy Street

<div>Hidden underneath the Marsh Mills flyover, a My Dog Sighs eyeball alongside a Fark bird<br><br>Update: painted over July 2022</div>

Eyeball

<div>Another huge a pair of eyes staring out of a wall in Market Way, just north of the Cascades Shopping Centre, "I wanna be yours". In the centre of the eyes you can see John Cooper Clarke on stage performing his song I Wanna Be Yours, commissioned by Portsmouth Poetry and supported by Portsmouth City Council the mural celebrates John Cooper Clarke's visit to the city as part of Portsmouth Festivities 2016.&nbsp;</div>

I Wanna Be Yours

Roo Abrook

Fark

Gary Stranger

<div>Hidden down a side entrance to a mews off Albert Road, this pop-up spot appeared when the French Cafe front was painted by local artists and designers.</div>

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