‘We painted change we desired in the City’: Local art collective revitalising east London through murals.
A number of murals that are a part of an artists’ collective participating in The Summit ‘Urban Arts vs. The World’ at the Western Fair may have caught your eye if you drove along Dundas Street in Old East Village (OEV).
One local advocacy group has sponsored and funded an east London painting project called the ‘Wet Paint Initiative’. So far, they have completed sixty-two murals.
Curator Ken Galloway remarked, “We painted the change that we desired in the city through the wet paint initiative.”
Galloway says he came back to London three years ago in an attempt to put “ladders of opportunity” for young artists in place.
“Young people should not have to run from the police to chase their dreams, you know, and we’re trying to create the lanes, in which they can do so, in which they can run as fast as they can on their own volition,” said Galloway.
According to Galloway, in the last three years, they have finished a variety of projects, such as the Wet Paint Initiative, the Wet Paint Express, which involved live urban art painting at the Western Fair, and the Refresh Sesh, a downtown revitalisation initiative.
According to Galloway, the primary objective is to make communities like OEV livelier.
The Art Project On September 17, 2024, Ken Galloway was seen in front of murals in Old East Village (Reta Ismail/CTV News London).”I adore them; I find the colours to be very uplifting and draw attention to us. Apart from the negative things that make headlines, Roxanne Talbot, the proprietor of Foxy Roxy’s at Maymos in OEV, said.
As part of the Art Initiative, artists from London and throughout the globe create enormous murals on buildings all over the city.
Graffiti artist Nick Farmer, whose work is included in the Wet Paint Initiative, said, “For not only people new to the city or people that have been here their whole lives to see that there is there are people that are very excited about doing stuff like this and want to create beautiful stuff for everyone to see on a street level.”
According to Galloway, a large number of the murals depict the city’s shifting topography.
“We are just people that care deeply about the Western Fair, the Old East Village, about our City of London,” said Galloway. You know, we are transforming the ancient hamlet from a neighbourhood that lags far behind in a period of years, even days.
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