Two sides to...

another story

This is another of Walsall's famous arson hit buildings - 2 April 2004

Here's how the business sees the mural

Here's the artist's take ...it's worth a read but in case you're busy the key bit is

When I began to paint the section on the right, the huge pile of bricks on the 'floor' prevented me from ascending the wall safely to reach the top of that section. Very unsafe indeed. Nobody was prepared to ready that area safe for my work to continue, but I had to finish the piece. Scaffolding was insecure and in general there was no safe access to all of the walls.

The reason that the Hole's management gave for non-payment (the final payment was short by more than £1000) was that the painting took too long... In all I spent 42 days against the breezeblock and mortar, sometimes through to midnight.


The shame is that it's fenced off in a non-viewer friendly way - if it's a feature of the town flaunt it - our council has wasted money on far more stupid things