Brightening up the area!

Here's a fantastic non-paper related post!

In May I visited Victoria Walmsley and Owen Phillips who are both part of The Bread Collective: http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/everything-in-between.html

Anyway, they've just unveiled their new website and one of the projects they've just completed is these fantastic murals painted in Hackney Wick. Basically, Bread wanted to brighten up an unloved, bleak street called White Post Lane and managed to secure funding from the London Legacy Development Corporation to paint the murals. The murals  are based on the industrial past and heritage of the Hackney Wick area and took over 6  months of community engagement to become a reality.

The Bread Collective are: Owen Phillips, Victoria Walmsley, Jo Lee and Luke James

www.breadcollective.co.uk

It's also appeared on the Creative Review blog: 

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/august/the-walls-have-ears-mural

Posted by Justin Hobson 07.08.2012

Victoria Walmsley & Co...

Last week I popped in to see Victoria Walmsley, who recently left Blast, in her new East London studio. She shares space and collaborates with illustrator Owen Phillips and they are also members of  The Bread Collective.

Anyway, as you can see from the pic, they're very happy in their new studio space and I was happy when I was offered a mug of tea, which looked like they'd got in just for me (being six foot six!)

Thanks for the tea and best of luck with the new venture.

www.victoriawalmsley.co.uk
www.owenp.com
http://thedailybread.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 30.05.2012