Challenge:
NE1 is a company responsible for regenerating much of Newcastle’s Bigg Market an area that used to be the heart of the city. NE1 has been give two walls within the Bigg Market which they would like to fill with two murals. We are to design a mural for each of these that represent the Bigg Market’s rich history and engage with the public. We must also create an aspirational mural that has no limits regarding budget or time, apart from that it must be designed within the Bigg Market.
Response:
For this project I created two murals that feature a trompe l’oeil “hole in the wall” style illusion. The holes give the audience a look up that street’s respective direction, giving a look back through time at the many characters, building and stories of the Bigg Market’s history. I also created an aspirational mural that would see all buildings in the area lit up intermittently with projection mapped stories, such as Geordie the giraffe emerging from the long demolished old town hall.
