Mural at St Matthews RC High

Just got a disc in the post from the very kind Mr Tamburro, containing his great photos of the finished school mural - thanks Sir!
See how many scenes of Moston past and present you can identify -




-and here it in in it's entirety as seen from the assembly/lunch hall below -


I must thank Joanne Davies at Manchester Art Gallery for organising the whole project, Carmel Hardy for looking after me so nicely, Mr Pirelli for the coffees, Mr Tamburro for the pictures, and all the students who gave their time (during Science, Maths, RE, English...) to help complete the mural - a very nice bunch of young people to work with.
I should also credit Fr Brian Seale's The Moston Story and Central Libraries brilliant Manchester Image Collection, where I found almost all the original images to work from.

St Matthews Mural

Here's one of the projects that's been keeping me busy - a 20m long mural for St Matthews RC High School in Moston. The rough -

(click to enlarge)

With the help of the brilliant Y10 Btec Art and Design groups the mural got finished yesterday, but I've not sifted through all the 'work in progress' photographs yet. Next post probably.
Before Easter I worked with the two groups, showing them my practice and trying out some of my methods - drawing stupid animals, figure drawing, gridding up, black & whiting etc, and this mural is kind of the culmination of it all.
More to follow in the next few days I expect.