BBC :: bridge write up
December 30th, 2011
The BBC News webiste have done a short write up and added a gallery of images about the painting of the old railway bridges we’ve been working on…
The BBC News webiste have done a short write up and added a gallery of images about the painting of the old railway bridges we’ve been working on…

The next bridge in the rejuvenation has now been painted. The bridge is on Bowbridge Lane in Balderton. 8 Artists painted the huge area which can now be enjoyed by anyone using the cycle track. You can read some of the local coverage about the mural work here at The Newark Advertiser and local magazine InTouch. There is also a video of the days painting here. Thanks to Sustrans for giving us permission to paint their bridges too!…

Yesterday we ran a graffiti drawing and painting workshop for an all day art class at Alderbrook secondary school in Solihull, great bunch of guys and a fantastic day. Everyone created an individual board [see our Facebook page]and then we created an Olympics inspired bigger board for display at the school!…

Another quick graffiti board for Positive Futures as part of the film project we’re running, this time in Boston and featured on BBC Look North…

A quick board painted with a hoard of young people at Birchwood Youth Centre last night as part of the Positive Futures film project i’m running across Lincolnshire. Everyone had a great time, got some good footage and the centre have some new artwork to display…
Working with the young artist group at Lincoln’s Usher Gallery, we created an individual custom toy with each child by sculpting, glueing, moulding, cutting and painting. We then created some backdrops from card and used the toys to create some stop motion animation, Loads of still images on our Facebook page too…

To give us somewhere to paint and show our skills and to brighten up and create a more interesting environment. We have been given permission to paint many of the underside of bridges along the cycle track in Newark and Balderton, the first mural, on London Road has now been completed. You can watch the video of it here
The next bridge will be painted at the end of the month…

Final session of the Firecracker project was last night! We will be starting work on editing all the film footage with a few of the young people in a week or so. Great project and thanks to Acis for having us on board, thanks also to CGP for the great food and to everyone else who turned up to help. Let’s hope we can do it again next year. Will post up the finished film when we’re done…
‘Was delighted to return to Lincoln Castle Academy and paint a volcano mural in the Head of Geography’s classroom with 18 year 7 students. Excellent day, everyone happy with the results, now just to edit the video…

Round 2 of our Graffiti research, again painting a mural on boards with children in Mansfield around how they feel about their play service, what they like to do and how they spend their time. Another massively fun experience. Lot’s of other pictures in our Facebook Album…