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Biscuit Lane

Posted: April 18, 2026 in alleys, graffiti and street art
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Biscuit Lane runs behind the east side of Yonge Street for one block, running south from Charles Street.   It was named Biscuit in honour of William Christie (1829-1900), the man behind Mr. Christie cookies.   A young William Christie started his career working for another baker, William McConnell whose shop was on Yonge Street in this area.   According to Wikipedia, Christie was paid $4.00 per month plus given room and board –  he baked at night and then delivered the baked goods by handcart to customers in nearby Yorkville.  After two years he left McConnell to work at another bakery in the same neighbourhood.

It is a short, narrow lane with street art murals now on both sides.

below: A Toronto mural in a Toronto alley.

street art mural of downtown Toronto with CN tower, subway, union station rogers centre, tall buildings

below: More Toronto, painted by Thomas the Anonynous

street art mural of downtown Toronto with CN tower, subway, union station rogers centre, tall buildings

below: “I’ll always be here with you!”

street art mural, with pink heart, words in heart say I will always be here with you.

street art mural,

below:Cartoon characters & Pop culture references!  Bert doesn’t look too comfortable!

below: Inspector Gadget, one of the Smurfs, Betty Boop, Tweety Bird looking angry, Goofy isn’t sure what’s happening, Launchpad McQuack, and Droopy Dog.

below: Marge Simpson with her enormous blue hair, Yogi Bear, Jessica Rabbit, Bert, Woody Woodpecker, Little Hiawatha, The Mask and Huckleberry Hound.

below: Along one wall is a large mural by Ness Lee – women with long hair

part of a mural by ness lee, black woman with long hair swimming or floating in white wavy water

part of a mural by ness lee, black woman with long yellow hair

part of a mural by ness lee, black woman with long green or white hair

below: Looking north on Biscuit Lane

looking north up biscuit lane, street art or urban art on both sides

below: Wanted poster for what looks like the Pink Panther in black hat and shades.  Wanted for “harbouring stool pigeons near sanctuary”

below: “Wanted for keeping it 2 real”.   Marvin the Martian?

below: …. and even more (with some repeats)…..  A smug Pink Panther and a concussed Sylvester….  Beep! Beep!

street art covering a door with many cartoon characters, pink panther, garfield, wiley coyote, donald duck, daffy duck, elmer fudd, bugs bunny, tweetie bird,

below: It’s the alphabet all jumbled up in many colours, many ‘fonts’, and many sizes.

double door in alley, covered with street art which is letters of the alphabet all jumbled up together in many colours

street art mural by thomas the anonymous in biscuit lane

street art mural by thomas the anonymous in biscuit lane, including circular target with red bulls eye

below: Superhero time!  Superman, Spiderman, and more.

street art mural showing some comic book superheroes

street art mural on blue background, in biscuit lane

electrical box in alley painted red, with words painted on it, raptors phone

Toronto street sign for Biscuit Lane mounted on a pole in the corner of a lane

looking north up Biscuit Lane towards Charles Street, with tall building on southeast corner of Yonge & Bloor visible in the background

Rubiks cubes and crayons

Posted: August 6, 2015 in galleries
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The art of CubeWorks
now showing at Art/Exp gallery in the Distillery District

 CubeWorks is a group of artists that use unconventional materials to create images.  They are known for the art that they create using Rubik’s cubes but they also use crayons, lego blocks, records, dice, guitar picks, spools of thread, and other mixed media. The pictures below are just a sample.

below: A copy of ‘The Creation of Adam’ that Michaelangelo painted on the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel ceiling in the early 1500’s.  This image is made with 12,090 hand twisted Rubik’s cubes.

A copy of Michaelangelo's painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, The Creation of Adam where God is giving life to man with the meeting of finger tips.

below: On a smaller scale, Space Invaders made with 20 cubes.

Little green space invaders from the old video game made of Rubiks cubes, green space invaders on blue background.

below: Artworks made of crayons, LOVE and a smoking gun.
Each square is 12″ x 12″ and contains just over 1000 crayons.

An image of the famous LOVE red letters in a black and blue square, this one is made of red, black and blue crayons on end.

An image of a smoking revolver that is pointed at the viewer. It is made from 9 squares and each square is filled with crayons on their ends. The background is red crayons, the smoke is yellow crayons.

An image of a smoking revolver that is pointed at the viewer. It is made from 9 squares and each square is filled with crayons on their ends. The background is red crayons, the smoke is yellow crayons. A close up of some of the squares to show the crayons more clearly.

below:  The Joker’s face, made with spools of thread, hangs from the ceiling.

An image of the Joker's face made with spools of thread hangs from the ceiling.

below: Images made with old broken record albums, Amy Winehouse and Jim Morrison

image of Amy Winehouse made from broken records on a background that is a collage of newpaper pieces.

image of Jim Morrison, the guitar player from Doors, his head with facial features painted in black but his hair is made with broken records.

Gallery sign on the exterior of a brick building, square sign with purplish background. Art Exp is the name of the gallery

More information on CubeWorks

 

Warhol on Bloor Street

Posted: July 3, 2015 in galleries
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Andy Warhol Revisited
presented by Revolver Gallery,
on display at 77 Bloor St. West

below:  Three Andy Warhol’s watch the passersby on Bloor Street.

statues of Andy Warhol, one pink, one yellow and one blue, in a window of an art gallery, He's dressed in black, with black rimmed glasses and his hands are folded over his chest in all three statues. Life sized.

below:  Three prints from Warhol’s Mohammad Ali series

Two women are sitting ona silver couch in an art gallery. On the wall in front of them are 3 silkscreen Andy Warhol prints of Mohammad Ali.

 below:  Iconic Campbells soup cans on black and white stripes.  To the left, a young Lucille Ball and a young Ronald Regan amongst other cultural references.

prints of three Campbells soup cans on a black and white striped wall, cheddar cheese, old fashioned vegetable, and hot dog bean. To the left a woman is looking at other Andy Warhol prints on a wall including a print of Mickey Mouse, Lucille Ball and a young Ronald Regan.

below:  Prints from Warhol’s Cowboys and Indians series.

Some of Warhol's Cowboys and Indians series prints hang on a gallery wall as two young Asian men walk past. There is also a couple sitting on a silver coloured couch in the right side of the photo.

The exhibition continues until the end of December 2015 although apparently a new set of pictures will be shown starting sometime in October.

A collage of photos of Andy Warhol, many photos, about 100 or more