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CreweColours 2026

26 Oct –
1 Nov 2026

Festival underway · Free Paint Jam 10am–4pm, Lyceum Square · Sat 31 Oct & Sun 1 Nov

Watch a wall take shape. Follow the colour across the town centre. For one week, the act of making is part of the street — with murals intended to carry the story beyond the festival.

Six artists, a week of painting and a town centre to see differently. The final Saturday and Sunday bring a free Paint Jam Weekend to Lyceum Square, with murals intended to remain beyond the festival.

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An owl painted on a turquoise freestanding panel in Lyceum Square, with a painter working beside it.
Large gable-end mural on a dark wall: a bird of prey formed from cream lilies and roses, with a small owl among golden leaves at its base.Work in progress: a large photorealistic portrait of a man in a cap carrying a long wooden beam, painted across a rust-red brick wall behind safety barriers. A ladder stands at the wall.Painted utility cabinet: two illustrated women in uniform carry a large parcel past a railway carriage. A parcel label reads 'The Hammo'.Painted utility cabinet: two illustrated track workers in hard hats and orange hi-vis carry a shovel and a tool over pink and amber landscape.Painted utility cabinet: an illustrated engineer in maroon overalls carries a sledgehammer on his shoulder, with pink and yellow industrial shapes behind.Painted utility cabinet: a smiling station worker in a waistcoat stands beside a grinning postal worker in blue, against bright orange tracks.

Programme

What’s on

Temporary festival activity. Individual painting times and DJ line-ups have not been published.

  • Saturday 31 October & Sunday 1 November 2026

    Free Paint Jam Weekend

    Watch the painting take shape with DJs and hip-hop in Lyceum Square. Free to attend.

    10am–4pm

    Lyceum Square

    On the map →

  • 26 October – 1 November 2026

    Mural painting across the town centre

    Follow a week of large-scale painting across the town-centre painting areas. Individual painting times have not been published.

    Lyceum Square, Heath Street and the Victoria Centre area

Everything announced for 2026 is free to attend. Painting areas are reported areas of the town centre, not confirmed addresses for individual murals — exact locations are added to the map as they are verified.

Painting areas

Where to look

  • Lyceum Square

    Reported painting area and home of the free Paint Jam Weekend (31 Oct–1 Nov 2026, 10am–4pm).

  • Heath Street

    Reported painting area in the town centre.

  • Victoria Centre area

    Reported painting area around the Victoria Centre.

PLATFORM Gallery (79–83 Market Street) is operated by CreweCreates and is not a confirmed painting location.

See the areas on the map →

Line-up

Announced artists

Six ways of seeing. From a painted letter to a face, a feather or a pattern, get to know the artists bringing their own visual language to Crewe.
Painted utility cabinet: two illustrated women in uniform carry a large parcel past a railway carriage. A parcel label reads 'The Hammo'.Painted utility cabinet: two illustrated track workers in hard hats and orange hi-vis carry a shovel and a tool over pink and amber landscape.Painted utility cabinet: an illustrated engineer in maroon overalls carries a sledgehammer on his shoulder, with pink and yellow industrial shapes behind.

On film

Festival videos

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Visiting

Make a day of it

Make a day of looking. Let Crewe’s street art sit alongside the rest of your visit, with time to pause rather than rush from one stop to the next. Check the map’s painting areas and each work’s location and access details before setting out.

Visitor information →More about Crewe →
Painted utility cabinet: an illustrated railway worker in a blue jumper leans on a pole beneath orange bridge girders.

Beyond the week

After the festival

The painting week ends; the invitation to look again need not. The murals are intended to remain, giving you a reason to return and notice something different. Check each work’s location and access details before you go.

Keep looking beyond the festival. Crewe already has a wider public art trail, with its own stories woven through the town. Not every piece belongs to CreweColours — part of the pleasure is discovering those different layers.

Explore the artworks →Junkyard Jam archive →