Some of the companies we've worked with Incl HMP prison Service &the NHS
social prescribing project
Anglia Ruskin University mural painted with community by brave arts and candy joyce.
social prescribing ment we visited a coffee morning for retired people at in the city to talk about street art and give them the oppourtubity to contribute to the process of designing planning and painting a large piece of street art commissioned by Anglia Ruskin University recently
with @originalcreativework and
@flippingzombies filmed brilliantly by @lawkermedia
Was a Pleasure to work with the older generation on this one.
Great film about the project here by Lawker media
Press release from ARU here:
https://www.aru.ac.uk/news/stunning-artwork-brings-community-together
These are the walls our river sees.
our 4-metre graffiti silk in full!
Made as part of the T100 2025 Our River festival, students from William Edwards School collaborated with Scotty Brave @brave_arts Kinetika Artistic Director Ali Pretty @aliwalkingpretty, and Kineitka artist Sarah Doyle (@sarahsbutterflybakery to create a vibrant fusion of graffiti and batik on silk.
Drawing inspiration from the bold colours and lettering of Thurrock's iconic graffiti wall ⁃ known as the Lakeside Hall of Fame, the work offered a fresh interpretation of the riverside stretch between Grays and Purfleet.
link to additional film here
subway art project Chelmsford
november 2024
Working with a brilliant team we completed a beautiful new subway art project.
Gnasher, Shauna Blanchfield, and Candy Joyce and Scotty Brave
chelmsford city council press release:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FmKEhXq8Z/
Community project to re generate dilapidated subway
This was a great project, it happened in South Woodham, which is near Chelmsford in Essex.
I was contacted by Jackie Lane who works for Chelmsford borough council, she was part of a team of 'mostly volunteers’ who were fighting a losing battle against graffiti scrawls that kept appearing on a subway in Woodham.
We got our heads together and came up with a plan to decorate the subway with a huge spray paint mural. Once Jackie had sorted some funding out (most came from Network rail ‘who own the subway’ the rest from local community groups) we got started on sorting out who we were going to involve in the project. The Plan was to give everyone in the community the opportunity to contribute design ideas. We had a couple of press releases, flyers went out and we held a drop-in session at the library to gather ideas for the content of the mural from all across the community. Loads of great design ideas were submitted by young and old people from all across the community.
Spraypainted vehicles....
turning digitalised images of paintings back to paintings
Skate parks
We Paint a lot of skateparks, sometimes with the local users through community projects workshops & drop-in's.
A lot of our skatepark projects come to us after skateparks have gathered graffiti scrawls and started to look a bit run down. We give them a makeover & crucially try to engage with the local users as part of the process.
Subway Art Project with 3 schools
Sudbury Subway Art Project, we worked with local schools to design & paint a local landmark.
Featured Artists Ekto, kak, froyd, eye-saw,
d-dub, Brave1 & over 70 students from 3 local Schools.
I worked in the Schools for a month prior to the project to gather Ideas and school the students on graffiti history- culture and design.
We painted the Subway in 5 days.... Big big thanks to the other artists who got involved in this Ann Scott, Brad ms Parmenter & all the students and the schools.
corporate interior design
I recently worked on a project to make art for the walls of a newly built NHS Cahms centre for young people.
The new St Aubyns Centre needed to provide a comfortable environment for a group about to move in.
Jevan & I visited Long View & did several workshops with the groups to develop their ideas into something we could paint in the new facility.
Before the move, we met & discussed their ideas with the architect, Who approved several of our design ideas,
We went in during construction of the new build & painted the new residents ideas directly on to the walls.
It was a really nice project & a lot of fun developing the ideas.
Big Thanks to Judith at Firstsite & Jeven Watkins who I worked with on this project. See the whole project here on a flickr gallery
Prison Graffiti Art Project.
Me & Darren, were lucky enough to go to prison for graff, and get out on the same day.
We did 4 days actually,
Getting outta prison 4 times in as many days was was reason to be pleased.....
The project went really well too!
We worked with about 8 guys, did a design with them in a classroom, then later in the week we painted the side of the chapel in the prison yard with their ideas.
They picked it up really well and everybody was pleased with their design. Some of them will be in there for at least another 20 years so it was good to change up the rhythm of life for them a bit, n do something different.
Big Thanks to Juliet martin Arts development officer at Chelmsford.
Working with the residents of childrens homes
HOME ART Project in association with Firstsite.
Working with the residents of this childrens home.
this is the result of multiple workshops.
Its been a continuation of the pilot for the first social pedagogue project in Essex.
Which ment the residents/students made the decicions, on all the designs, the content , the final pieces, their final placements, they ran things basically!
I really enjoyed the project. Big thanks to all the Young People I worked with, Judith Merritt & Clare Phillips from Firstsite. & all the Staff at this Home.
See all the Childrens home projects here on a flickr gallery
something a litle different. a landscape,
a mountain called Ben Bulben.
it's actually in country sligo in Ireland.
I met this lovely Irish couple whilst I was painting some street art and they said
" hey we've got a wall in our garden that we'd imagined having a view of Ireland painted on it." I said, "no problem" now they got a little piece of home in their English garden.
During this set of spraycan art workshops we explored the responsibilities we all have to look after our water systems.
We Painted two blue Whales to signify the weight of the fatberg that Anglian water had to remove from blocked pipes under Southend.
This was the final part of a project that Brave_Arts has been working on with the Triple T's youth clubs in the town. The team got together to let people know the do's & the dont's of flushing & rinsing waste down the sink.
We painted some street art, made posters & banners & on the final day we raised awreness in the high street by painting this mural & talking to the public about what role we all have to play to look after the systems that manage our water.
Big thanks to Hayley at Triple T's Collette from Anglia water, Mr Frisbee on the cans & mr Fusion https://facebook.com/FusionWalls/ for making the films. and of course big big thanks to all the amazing youth club members who helped us to create the street art.
