Graffiti brightens up the Crystal Palace triangle

Tuesday, 30 August 2011 09:13 Mr Cenz

cenz Positive Arts Presents “Up In Palace” A mural by Graffiti Artists Mr Cenz, Solo one, Aero, Shucks, Pure one and Dane

A collection of artists from Graffiti/Street Art Company 'Positive Arts' have collaborated to bring you a large new mural in Crystal Palace. We spent 3 days brightening up a run down hoardings on Church Road, Crystal Palace, bringing a new lease of life to the area and showcasing some real Graffiti Art to the public. The response from locals and visitors was overwhelmingly positive especially during a week of riots.

"Positive Arts is one of the first, most respected and recommended Graffiti Art/Street Art companies in the UK. We have been empowering and inspiring people since 1988 with our artwork and uniquely educational and engaging approach to projects, workshops and programmes.

Through our positive and people centred ethos we aim to bring happiness, pride and change to communities/individuals and to transform the negative public perception of Graffiti Art/Street Art.

There is a slideshow on our site:

www.positivearts.co.uk

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+3 #6 Mr Cenz 2011-09-06 18:41

Just to clear up a few points- We are very busy professional artists who took upon ourselves, unpaid and unsupported to sort out the mess that was the hoardings on church road. So we decided to do something current, fun and family friendly! If you want to commission us then show us the money!

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0 #5 dozza 2011-09-06 16:30

Quoting timsharville:

The characters are from Disney's UP.... Maybe this was part of the commission brief.

Thought I'd seen them somewhere before, but my point exactly.
What Has Disney's UP got to do with CP?
Any idea who commissioned it?

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0 #4 timsharville 2011-09-06 15:20

Quoting dozza:

I agree that it's great to see some positive creativity to cover the shabby building front, and I appreciate good quality graffiti - having done a bit myself in the past.

However, I feel that an opportunity was missed in creating something relevant historically or geographically for the area. The new piece seems to be a promotional piece for Positive Arts, and it is great quality, but means nothing to locals really. It resembles the Grand Canyon to me, and who are those charachters? Why not represent local characters? There are plenty of them!

Was this piece commissioned and who paid for it? If Positive Arts did it for free - I'll take this all back, although I think it could have been 'positiver' (is that a word?).

The characters are from Disney's UP, but Julian AKA Mr Cenz can easily create his own ones and has done so many times. Maybe this was part of the commission brief.

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0 #3 dozza 2011-09-06 12:17

I agree that it's great to see some positive creativity to cover the shabby building front, and I appreciate good quality graffiti - having done a bit myself in the past.

However, I feel that an opportunity was missed in creating something relevant historically or geographically for the area. The new piece seems to be a promotional piece for Positive Arts, and it is great quality, but means nothing to locals really. It resembles the Grand Canyon to me, and who are those charachters? Why not represent local characters? There are plenty of them!

Was this piece commissioned and who paid for it? If Positive Arts did it for free - I'll take this all back, although I think it could have been 'positiver' (is that a word?).

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+1 #2 750Hawk 2011-09-05 20:29

Seen the new Graffiti Art down the bottom of Haynes lane on the back of The Book Palace offices, just before Antenna studio.

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0 #1 timsharville 2011-08-30 09:40

Great to see some art created by someone who can actually draw! As apposed to tagging, which even I can do!

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