{"id":4801,"date":"2011-08-02T12:30:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2011-08-02T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T11:30:45","slug":"restoration-work-on-iconic-brixton-academy-mural-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/restoration-work-on-iconic-brixton-academy-mural-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoration work on iconic Brixton Academy mural completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-academy-mural-01.jpg\" alt=\"Restoration work on iconic Brixton Academy mural completed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a good month for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brixton_murals\" target=\"_blank\">Brixton\u2019s murals<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brixton_Academy\" target=\"_blank\">Brixton Academy<\/a>\u2019s 1982 mural by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenpusey.org\/stephenpusey\/video.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Pusey<\/a>\u00a0was lucky enough to have gone under a bit of a restoration.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-academy-mural-02.jpg\" alt=\"Restoration work on iconic Brixton Academy mural completed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The building was undergoing some repair work to its exterior led by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tritonconservation.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Triton Building Conservation<\/a>\u00a0and it was felt to be a good opportunity to give the mural a little tidy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-academy-mural-03.jpg\" alt=\"Restoration work on iconic Brixton Academy mural completed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/londonmuralpreservationsociety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">London Mural Preservation Society<\/a>\u00a0recommended artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spaceofforgetting.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Butler<\/a>\u00a0who worked on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonmuralpreservationsociety.com\/murals\/battle-cable-street\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cable Street Mural<\/a>\u00a0which is of a similar size and uses the same paint.<\/p>\n<p>Over a period of a week Paul worked on tidying up the top of the mural which had been badly water damaged.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-academy-mural-04.jpg\" alt=\"Restoration work on iconic Brixton Academy mural completed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The end result is great! The colour matching is pretty close, much of the top has been tidied and the mural looks 10, maybe 20 years younger!<\/p>\n<p>There is still evidence of damage but it is not as noticeable as it was before &#8211; let\u2019s hope the mural sticks around for another 30 years!<\/p>\n<p>More photos here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/47057694@N06\/sets\/72157624187676374\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/4705769&#8230;7624187676374\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a good month for\u00a0Brixton\u2019s murals.\u00a0Brixton Academy\u2019s 1982 mural by\u00a0Stephen Pusey\u00a0was lucky enough to have gone under a bit of a restoration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,17,193],"tags":[1191,409],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-photos","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-murals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-academy-mural-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1fr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4833,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/4833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}