Worcester Paint Festival

A new look WPF for 2026 – exciting happenings are spread out and include KMG, Katie Scott, Sixways Hall of Fame, MrSce, Rensyil.

Due to funding and limited space to paint, WPF will look different, but there will still be lots of exciting things to check out. The main difference will be less murals and no one event day, or HQ as previously. Last year’s maps are still good to go with over a hundred pieces to explore. Any additions for 2026 will be added to the online map and hopefully a downloadable sheet too.

What can you expect to see:

Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September – Sixways Hall of Fame – Times – 10.30am – 5pm (and probably later).
Get along to the Worcester Legal Wall, the Sixways Hall of Fame for the annual event, where you can see our very own veteran graffiti writers sharing their craft, alongside guests from other parts of the UK. Walls will be loosely inspired by the classic Hannah Barbera cartoon, The Wacky Races.
Big walls painted by KFO crew – Spar, Sore, Nuzoe, Cask, Zare, Phe, Al + Sweetheart. Other walls – Cinz, Birdy, Umix, Frank Bough, Knel, Minto

Katie Scott – from 7th September, London Road.
We welcome back Katie Scott, a Street Artist working large-scale in spray paint, blending realism with a fantastical colour palette, heavy on portraiture and nature. Katie has worked with community groups, schools, prisons and councils across the UK and Europe, transforming public spaces through commissions and collaborations. 
Katie painted at WPF in 2022 on Angel Place, so it’s great to have her back. You can find her painting on London Road, the old Sauce Factory building next to Fort Royal Park. This piece has come to life thanks to Karen O’Callaghan, part of the Fort Royal Park Environmental Rangers and is funded by the Bransford Trust.

KMG – from 8th September, Cranham Drive, Warndon.
KMG is a Scottish street artist with two decades of work on walls internationally, exhibiting at festivals including NUART Aberdeen, Waterford Walls, Glasgows’ Yardworks and The Crystal Ship. Raised on Celtic folklore from Northern Scotland, her murals reclaim and revive oral storytelling traditions often left out of the historical record, using imagery to question how marginalised communities have been shaped by shifting social agendas. Community engagement runs through her practice via bespoke workshops that help people build a visual language for their own cultural heritage.
KMG will be painting on Cranham Drive in Warndon, as part of our ongoing partnership with Platform Housing Group  who funded this strand of the event.

MrSce – from 18th Sept, canal bridge under St Georges Lane, Worcester.
MrSce will be painting a canal wall close to the old football ground on St Georges Lane which will celebrate this local gem, sadly no more. MrSce is a bit of a local legend, an artist who truly gets himself out there. You might have seen his recent Fizzers piece in St Johns? As well as multiple canal pieces over the years for WPF and more. This has been funded by Local Councillors Karen Lewing, Matt Jenkins, Alex Mace and local community groups Arboretum Residents Association and Worcester Canal Group.

Rensyil – Ongoing community project.
We’ve been working with emerging Street Artist Rensyil, from Worcester and currently based in Bath. She painted with us in 2023 when she was still at art college, and this summer she has been working with WPF on a project, drawing influence from the Mela Festival, the Snack and Chat groups for local residents based at Worcester Community Trust centres in Ronkswood and Dines Green, and a Young peoples event in Warndon at the WCT Hub in the summer. 
We ran sessions with participants around themes of diversity, celebration, community, and joy, the participants make their own canvases, or large doodle sheets, then Rensyil will be painting 5 small murals linking the project together. It will draw on the artists work, local community consultation and creation, the Worcester Mela and the Local Voices Creative Choices project. The final outcome will be 5 indoor murals in the Hubs at Ronkswood, Warndon, Tolladine, Dines Green and the Horizon Centre. These will be available to view in the autumn.
Biggest thanks to Local Councillor Jabba Riaz for funding this project, and for Severn Arts, Mela, Worcester Community Trust and the Local Voices, Creative Choices programme.

Education and exploration of the scene. Get in touch if you, or a group would like to book …..

-graffiti and street art tours

-talks on the Graf and Street Art scene

Worcester Paint Festival brings street, mural & graffiti artists to the city showcasing renowned names in the UK scene, supported by emerging artists to create a vibrant outdoor art gallery. WPF works with street artists and graffiti writers for projects, collaborations and commissions.
Please get in touch if you have a wall or project that needs brightening up!

Photographer credit : Elliott Parker of artwork by Nuzoe, Diglis Dock Road, 2022.

You can pick up a paper map all year round from Tourist Information on the High Street (by The Guildhall), or use the digital one, or the downloadable PDF in large print via the map page!

We are always looking for sponsors for future projects so please do get in touch if you would like to help the community get some large, inspiring and joyful artwork, pay to cover the costs of a mural and support Worcester Paint Festival. Or if you want to discuss a commission, we have an extensive network of street, mural and graffiti artists who can deliver! Please get in touch if you want to book a tour, or talk about graffiti and street art culture, or the local scene

PAINT THE STREETS – was a major exhibition of Graffiti and Street Art culture and history in 2023-24 at Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery. It featured super rare original, large scale (8ft tall x 20ft wide immaculate) boards from Bridlington 1987, featuring Goldie, Vulcan, Mode and TKid. These boards had not been seen for decades, being locked away in a council facility. This was coupled with original works from Inkie, Bansky, Shepard Fairey and UK street artists. We included archive material and photographs from Martin Jones, John Nation and Barton Hill Youth Club, and the scene here in Worcester with sketch books, photos, tools and more from our veteran Worcester writers. Paint the Streets ran for 5 months and had over 18,000 visitors! Thank you to everyone who came to this amazing exhibition!

You can still still listen to an audio tour of PAINT THE STREETS Please follow this link. AUDIO TOUR AVAILABLE.