I stumbled across these pictures yesterday and found out [thank you Google] that they’re part of the Wide Open Walls project. W.O.W is a community mural project running in The Gambia and it’s seriously cool. The idea behind the project was to turn villages into living art installations, so a couple of street artists headed off to The Gambia and spent a few days making a couple of really beautiful things.
The street-artists involved in this were Bushdwellers (The Gambia), ROA (Belgium), Know Hope (Israel), Remed (Madrid), TIKA (Switzerland), Freddy Sam (SA), Selah (SA), and Best Ever (UK).
ROA’s work is my personal favorite, Selah is a close second, but to me all of the works are both striking and beautiful.
How awesome is this?
The work is surprising, inspiring, beautiful and pretty damn awesome. And you can check out more of it here.
It reminds me a lot of the work in and around Woodstock. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then go to The Bromwell [ near the biscuit mill] and check out the walls of the nearby parking lot.
Excuse my ignorance, but do we do run any community, street art projects like this in SA? Please let me know.
*images sourced here
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ricky lee gordon
i in fact curated wow 2011..and am from woodstock..and do run projects like this here, regularly…see http://www.freddysa,.com and http://www.a-word-of-art.co.za and i-art-sa-project.com and http://www.writeonafrica.org
21 Oct 2011 07:10 am (@Twitter)
Robyn Hobson
That's really awesome :)
Will check them out. Tx for letting me know! Congrats on WOW 2011. Really great project.
21 Oct 2011 11:10 am (@robynhobson)
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