Your Mural Needs You! Brian Barnes at work on the Stockwell Memorial Mural. Photo by Ben Kaufmann
Since that snowy Easter weekend preparing the Stockwell Memorial Mural for restoration much headway has been made. Whilst the walls were in fairly rough and crumbling shape, anyone who has headed down the South Lambeth Road of late will testify that the Mural is now shaping up; the restored colours adding a real punch to the original design. With the help of Morganic, French filmmaker Julien Ferdinande and a sprinkling of volunteers, Brian Barnes’ restoration of the 1999 mural is progressing well, but we would like to put out a call for volunteers for this Sunday 19th May, to help us progress with the lower rotunda and in particular the poppies.
Brian Barnes at work on Stockwell Memorial Mural, May 2013. Photo by Ben Kaufmann
The Stockwell Memorial was erected in 1919 in memory of the 600 local men who died during the First World War. As Barnes explains in this recent film by Julien Ferdinande, his 1999 design for the Memorial Mural allocated one poppy to every two men killed in the conflict – with a total of 300 poppies across the mural. This Sunday, therefore, we would like to invite volunteers to come along and help us pay tribute to those killed in the war and paint a poppy.
Brian Barnes, painting Van Gogh’s sky at Stockwell Memorial Mural, May 2013. Photo by Ben Kaufmann
Please reply to stockwellmemorialfriends@gmail.com if you are able to help. Wear old clothes, bring paintbrushes (variety of widths if you can), some brush cleaner (if you can), and rags. Don’t worry if you don’t have all this – come anyway!
Supervised children are welcome.
Brian Barnes at Stockwell Memorial Rotunda, May 2013. Photo by Ben Kaufmann
The London Mural Preservation Society is delighted to see another mural repaired. We have been involved with Lambeth Council and Friends of the Stockwell Memorial from the beginning of the process and look forward to seeing the outcome of the repair work to both the memorial and mural.
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Links
For more information on the Stockwell Memorial Mural please see our website page or past blog post
For more information on Brian Barnes please see here
For more information on recent restorations please see the Great Wave Mural Restoration Video or our post on the Windmill Mural restoration
