Loved this piece! I lived in Hackney for 35 years and know many of those sculptures well. You might have seen the large figures on London Fields too, near where we used to live. Your bolthole sounds like a similarly arty enclave in eastern Kent ...
I very much enjoyed reading about your Hackney mosaic. In a previous life I worked for a while with a Hackney community arts outfit called the FreeForm Trust. They used to cover the gable ends of buildings in huge mosaics designed and constructed with local community groups. I don't know if any of these works survive.
I love that sort of thing - in Cheltenham they started a festival of that sort of street art and quite a lot of once scruffy buildings now have elaborate artwork on them. Better than graffiti and cheers the place.
there are 4 symbols under the post. a heart. a speech bubble and then a circle - that's the restack one. just click it and you have sent it on to the other people you know on Substack
Loved this piece! I lived in Hackney for 35 years and know many of those sculptures well. You might have seen the large figures on London Fields too, near where we used to live. Your bolthole sounds like a similarly arty enclave in eastern Kent ...
Not Kent and not really arty - but overlooking Poole bay. If you enjoyed my post, please consider re-stacking it. Peter
I very much enjoyed reading about your Hackney mosaic. In a previous life I worked for a while with a Hackney community arts outfit called the FreeForm Trust. They used to cover the gable ends of buildings in huge mosaics designed and constructed with local community groups. I don't know if any of these works survive.
I'm sure your gull will love being by the sea.
I love that sort of thing - in Cheltenham they started a festival of that sort of street art and quite a lot of once scruffy buildings now have elaborate artwork on them. Better than graffiti and cheers the place.
They're gorgeous, absolutely beautiful.
Hi Pete, great writing, as usual. You suggest above, 'restacking it' - how to I do that, please?
there are 4 symbols under the post. a heart. a speech bubble and then a circle - that's the restack one. just click it and you have sent it on to the other people you know on Substack