A selection of Mancunians and well known faces associated with Manchester are marked in Mark Kennedy's mosaics at Afflecks. The left panel includes Morrisey, Mark E Smith (The Fall), Badly Drawn Boy, Ian Brown (Stone Roses) and Liam Gallagher.
The middle panel celebrates Manchester's pioneering in three political movements close to my heart: Vegetarianism (the Smith's Meat is Murder album cover), the Suffragette movement Emmeline Pankhurst ("Trust in God- she will provide"), and finishes off with another movement started in Manchester, communism, featuring Engels and Marx.
Quentin Crisp is also there presumably for his work on gay rights and for the fact that he spent his final hours in Manchester. The third panel with Herman Munster and various animals is something I confess I do not understand.
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I seems to me that doing a mosaic would be much more difficult than painting. Then again what do I know? I can't do either. Now I hate to rain on your parade but... that is not Herman Munster in the last mural. It's Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster.
ReplyDeleteAhh, thanks for clarifiying Andy!
DeleteThese remind me of wall posters put up one on top of another.
ReplyDeleteA great post!!
ReplyDeleteThat 3rd panel is definitely a mystery - strange assortment of images.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking along the same lines as E Squared - that these look like overlapping posters.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the explanations :)
Great way to brighten up a wall. Off to view the road trip now......
ReplyDeleteWhat a great picture !
ReplyDeletePlease have a good Tuesday.
A fun mural that engages viewers as they try to figure out who is who. Andy called it right about Boris Karloff, but I couldn't find the connection to Manchester. Thanks for contributing to this week's Monday Mural.
ReplyDeleteHi, the final mural is an ode to the origins of Tib Street itself - in the 60s it was known as Pet Paradise (hence the animals) but it was also the home to joke shops and lots of film rental places, the artist remembers that to him Tib Street meant the place to rent a horror film and buy a ferret :)
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