Huge South Bank Mural Highlights Link Between Creativity And Health
If you’re around the South Bank anytime soon, make a point of ducking into its hinterlands — namely Belvedere Road — where a sweeping new mural can currently be admired.
A joint collaboration between Global Street Art and Bupa, the 773sqm hand-painted mural — one of the largest in Europe — is a patchwork design featuring panels from names including Sophie Tea, Yinka Ilori, Cody Weightman, Coco Dávez and Tom Daley (his panel is a knitted tapestry, naturally).
The mural highlights the link between exercising our own creativity, and our health. According to a study, 85% of people recognise that creative hobbies like drawing, doodling, painting or crafts positively impact health and wellbeing, yet 55% of these people don’t regularly make time to get creative.
With artworks themed around topics of fertility, sickle cell, diabetes, anxiety, ageing and grief, the giant mural is a clarion call to whip out pens/pencils/paintbrushes/knitting needles and unleash our inner artists — once in a while, at least.
Although if you choose to be creative on a wall, do seek permission first.
The mural will remain in situ until at least 5 June.