Plymouth

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Plymouth Artists Together

<div>A gallery of film and music stars on this closed cinema, which was also once a live music venue.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div>

Reel Cinema Gallery

Kartworks

Normalityart

<div>A marine themed mural, showing how human actions can affect the animals who live in the sea. It's on the left, off Wolseley Close, opposite the large Co-op store.</div>

Wolseley Trust Community Building car park

James Edgar 

David Tetley

<div>Steps linking Exeter Street to Moon Street, painted to welcome visitors. In the direction from the city centre towards the Barbican, the entrance is next to Jury's Inn, behind a bus stop.</div>

Moon Street steps

Joe Greenaway

<div>A black and white mural of huge portraits. The owners, who commissioned the original work, added the five green hearts and tribute following the shootings in the Keyham neighbourhood of Plymouth in 2021.</div>

Jon Lilly

<div>Three views of Stonehouse. The future section was created with the ideas of pupils from Pilgrim Primary School, opposite the mural</div>

Stonehouse: Past, Present and Future

Kev Davison

<div>A series of five murals representing diversity and multiculturalism in Plymouth. They are painted on a building that is part of the Cumberland health centre.</div>

Diversity

<div>A large mural on the Salvation Army Congress Hall, showing the destruction of Plymouth in World War Two - 'resurgam' means I shall rise again and was written on a sign in the rubble after a of heavy bombing in March 1941. The design includes the Abercrombie Plan which was used to rebuild the city in the 1950s and 60s, and one of its flagship buildings, the Civic Centre.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>

Resurgam

<div>An outdoor art gallery, curated by Plymouth Artists Together and open to all. Many of the paintings are as response to the pandemic. It's on hoardings alongside a building site on Martin Street, opposite Millbay Academy.</div>

Lockdown Gallery

Louis Masai

<div>Painted on the front of the aquarium, who comissioned it from Upfest to celebrate World Ocean Day - it features basking sharks, to highlight their vulnerable status&nbsp; &nbsp;</div>

World Ocean Day mural 

Katherine Murphy

Billy Finch

Morgan Prosser

<div>A mural to promote The Zone, an organisation proving support for young people</div>

The Zone

<div>Face of small child on Car park, near St Luke's Hospice shop</div>

Child's Face

Mrs Murals

<div>Painted by a local artist for World Earth Day along the entrance walkway into the Plymstock Broadway Shopping Centre, including a Large Blue butterfly perfect for selfies - these butterflies were extinct in Britain after 1979 but now reintroduced. There's also a Turtle Dove which is on the RSPB list of endangered birds and a pair of hands cradling the Earth. The murals are in the entrance next to the car park in Memory Lane.</div>

World Earth Day 

Rosie Cunningham

<div>Painted on a house wall, near the Millbridge Inn pub in the Stoke neighbourhood of the city.</div>

Molesworth Road Mural

SWQR

<div>Inspired by Hokusai "The Great Wave"</div>

Wave

<div>A derelict pub given a spooky makeover by Plymouth Artists Together - it's just off Union Street, on Phoenix Street, next to the (closed) Palace Theatre.</div>

Haunted House

Lil Pig

<div>Mural on hoarding by Two Lils</div>

Two lilies

LOCI

<div>Muralls on the wall of a building alondgside Neswick Street Play Park, and and stripes on the entrance wall at street level.</div>

Neswick Street Play Park mural

Heather Knight

Olivia K

<div>A fox and a tree in autumn, on panels around the doorway of the main entrance on Western Approach by Heather Knight - and upstairs on a landing, there is a treescape by Olivia K.</div>

Western Approach Car Park entrance & stairwell

<div>Comissioned by Plymouth Community Homes, it brightens up the entrance to the car park of Colin Campbell Court - located just off Market Avenue.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div>

Colin Campbell Court Mural

Roy Christie

<div>Funded by the Friends of Ham Woods, the huge mural celebrates this urban green space and includes local wildlife. It's on a bend in the road between Lowerside and ASbbotsbury Way, painted on a fence outside the last in a row of houses.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div>

Friends of Ham Woods mural

<div>Commissioned by the Citizen's Advice Bureau, the mural warns of the dangers of illegal money lenders - also called loan sharks. It's painted in the pedestrian underpass leading to Stonehouse and is one of two murals that Jon Lilly has painted in this location - the other is of famous Plymouth places and is on both walls of the underpass nearest the top of Armada Way.</div>

Loansharks

Nina Raines

Camilla Rose

<div>The mural illustrates the history of the area and is part of a local community project - located just off the path near the Millbridge entrance to Victoria Park. The illustrations are by Nina Raines and the map and signwriting by Camilla Rose.</div>

Victoria Park changing rooms

<div>A mural showing key features of Keyham in Plymouth</div>

St Levan's Park mural

Kate Crawfurd

<div>A tribute to the sadly missed manager of the Plymouth Scrapstore, Rachael Bleek - who loved forget-me-not flowers, and the poem which this mural illustrates. It's on the front of the shop, in Union Street.&nbsp;</div>

Forget Me Not

<div>A makeover of an electricity substation - Plymouth Artists Together have worked on sites across the city owned by Western Power, who support local art - which costs them less than continually repainting because of graffiti. It's on a corner of a crossroads junction, opposite Ki Martial Arts.</div>

Anstis Street substation

<div>Six water themed panels, painted in the bricked up arches of an industrial building by an all female group of artists. It's near the junction with St Levan Road, close to a row of shops.&nbsp;</div>

Keyham Road - six panels

<div>Two-storey high mual depicting the naturalists Sir David Attenborough and Dame Jane Goodall along with a snow leoplard and chimpanzee. It was commissioned by the owners to be something inspiring and positive for the area - it's behind St Peter's Church, Stonehouse.</div>

David Attenborough/ Jane Goodall

Sean

<div>Pilgrim Pete the Plymouth Argyle Football Club's mascot, on a park building just to the left of the Barn Park Road entrance. Fans - known as the Green Army - pass it on their way to the Home Park stadium, to watch Argyle play at home. &nbsp;</div>

Pilgrim Pete

Unknown

<div>Created by a local art club, organised by Plymouth Artists Together. It's painted on the rear of a building at the end of York Place, on the corner where it joins Devonport Road. &nbsp;</div>

Smeaton's Tower

<div>A dragon painted on the side of a Chinese and Oriental takeaway restaurant</div>

Yummy House

Jake Howell

<div>A mural on a electrcity sub-station celebrating the local area -&nbsp; Stonehouse Creek was nearby until it was drained in the 1970s. It's on the right of Corea Terrace, after turning off Kings Road, set in a grassy bank just before a railway bridge. &nbsp;</div>

Up the creek without a paddle

SpraySaint

<div>This stunning fox is located at the base of a pillar supporting the footbridge. There are also murals and bollards decorated as the four lighthouses that have stood on the Eddystone Rocks, at the entrance to the bridge on the Bodmin Road side, created by Pymouth Artists Together.</div>

Fantastic Mr Fox

Azza's Gallery

<div>Comissioned by Nudge Community Builders, it's next to their alternative shopping arcade The Plot, on Union Street</div>

The Plot mural

<div>A positive vision of a Plymouth as carbon net-zero in 2050. Painted on the University's Sustainability Hub, on the side of the building facing the car park in Kirkby Place.</div>

Net Zero Visions Project - Plymouth University

Kevin Preston

<div>A tribute to ex Royal Marine and triple amputee Mark Ormrod who has been an inspiration for many in the manner he has overcome adversity.</div>

Mark Ormrod

Kleiner Shames

<div>Organised by Plymouth Artists Together, this electricity substation has been painted with a bright abstract design. It's on the corner of George Place and Battery Street, near the Armadillo self storage warehouse. &nbsp;</div>

Battery Street substation

<div>A portrait of a sleeping woman painted by local artist SpraySaint, on the front of a council hut in Trefusis or Tippy Park - it's to the rear of a small concreted parking area, a short walk from the end of Trefusis Gardens. &nbsp;</div>

Sleeping Beauty

<div>An old sailor smokes his pipe next to a stormy sea&nbsp;</div>

Old sailor

Kate Entwhistle

<div>A celebration of some of the emotions experienced during a theatre performance - it's on hoardings around the former Civic Centre on Royal Parade, close to Theatre Royal Plymouth.</div>

Theatre makes you feel!

<div>Funded by the Friends of Ham Woods, one of two large murals in this road by veteran local graffiti artist Roy Christie. It's painted along a wall that starts at the top of a hill, on Lowerside near the junction with Abbotsbury Way.</div>

Life hurts - nature heals

<div>Mural created in response to the killing of 5 people in Keyham in summer 2021.</div>

Brighten My Day

My Dog Sighs

<div>Hidden underneath the Marsh Mills flyover, a My Dog Sighs eyeball alongside a Fark bird<br><br>Update: painted over July 2022</div>

Eyeball

Tom Rebus

<div>A pair of wings - and a selfie opportunity -&nbsp; on the back door of the Street Factory hip hop dance studio. These were originally pink but after the Keyham shootings in August 2021, Tom Rebus repainted them in green and added the Plymouth Together sign and heart. It's on Sawrey Street, off Martin Street and opposite Millbay Academy.&nbsp;</div>

Street Factory mural

<div>The back wall of the pub garden of The Fortescue is a regular site for large street art designs - I'm not sure if these are endorsed by the pub's owners. From Mutley Plain, turn left off Moorview Terrace where the wall faces an alleyway. It's repainted often, so something new will be there now.. &nbsp;</div>

The Fortescue

<div>A larger desert landscape, painted across a community centre in Tothill Park - it's past the cafe and local library, close to the edge of the park, near the railway line.&nbsp;</div>

Tothill Community Centre

<div>One of My Dog Sigh's iconic eyes - this one has Antony Gormley's LOOK II statue in the centre of its pupil.</div>

Plymouth Eye

<div>Commissioned by Plymouth Community Homes, to brighten up an alleyway leading through to the Colin Campbell Court flats. It's located to the left of Gadgets Recycled Ltd on Western Approach.&nbsp;</div>

Tree landscape

<div>Portraits of two men and a woman, on hoardings close to the entrance of waterside restaurant the Honky Tonk Wine Library.</div>

Three black and white portraits

<div>An electricity substation with a World War Two dazzleship camouflage style makeover. it's located on the left&nbsp; side, from the Devonport Road direction.&nbsp;</div>

Dazzleship substation

Debra Purse

Yvonne H

<div>Mural celebrating the Harbour Centre, a substance abuse charity in Plymouth.</div>

Starry Starry Plymouth

<div>Painting on side of Oggy Oggy pasty shop</div>

Tree of Life

<div>A park building in the Victoria Road Play Area, with a large mural of bees and flowers by SpraySaint that can be seen from the park, and a smaller mural of trees by Olivia K on the side of the building facing Victoria Road (behind a bus stop)&nbsp;</div>

Bees and trees

<div>Celebration of Bill and Ted's band. There are other tributes to the film around the city centre.&nbsp;<br>On hoardings around a car park that feature many local artists, it's refreshed at regular paint jams, when new work is added.&nbsp;</div>

Wyld Stallyns

Will Luz

Stephen Smith

<div>13 metre high mural created in cooperation with the community - to reflect the street's shared values of togetherness, support and holding each other up. It's on the Union Corner building, a community centre run by Nudge Community Builders, who are regenerating the area.</div>

Union Corner Mural

Tom Pointon

Sarah Trotter

<div>A group of five decorated utility boxes near Patna Park - part of a trail of 30 in North Stonehouse, all painted with different designs by local artists. They're on a corner opposite the (now closed) Patna pub. The other 25 are fun to find in the streets nearby..</div>

North Stonehouse utilty boxes trail

<div>Painted on the outside of Cap'n Jaspers cafe</div>

Pirate

<div>A welcome sign for the Barbican area of Plymouth</div>

Barbican

Julie Beer

<div>A small building on Blagdon's Meadow by the River Plym, celebrating Plymouth, Britain's Ocean City. Since I took these photos, a riverscape has been added on the side facing Embankment Road. It can be reached on foot from the free car park at Blagdon's Meadow. &nbsp;</div>

The Riverside Hub

Brick Project CIC

<div>This communal art piece was created by the people of Plymouth in 2021, under the guidance of the Brick Project CIC. Over 3000 bricks were painted, many expressing what Plymouth means to us and there's lots of humour, thought provoking stuff and some great artwork to spot here. The wall and steps are at the end of Glen Park Avenue on the corner with North Road East, close to the railway station.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div>

Plymouth Brick Project

<div>A seagull poised to steal a chip - for locals and visitors to pose with - it was created as part of the Plymouth Selfie Wall project</div>

Plymouth Selfie Wall - seagull

Jessie Wellington

<div>A public information mural for the Samaritans, painted on the back of their building. You have to go down the service lane for Claremont Street to find it.</div>

Samaritans 

Igneous Interactive

<div>This mural imagines different communities as mythical creatures and was designed in collaboration with the community groups represented. It's located off Union Street, near to the Phoenix Pub and the Palace Theatre, on a wall facing a pedestrianised area.</div>

Community Creatures

None Here

<div>Two images of magpies on hoarding on closed shop in city centre.</div>

Magpie

<div>A positive vision of Plymouth in a carbon free net-zero future in 2050. Part of a project across Devon, painted accross the front of a pre school building, which is a modern extention to the right of the entrance of the Methodist Central Hall.</div>

Net Zero Visions Project - Methodist Central Hall

<div>A hotel with lots of famous mice guests looking out of the windows - part of a trail of 30 decorated utilty boxes in North Stonehouse. It's outside the Western Spares motobike shop, close to the entrance to Victoria Park.</div>

The Mouse Hotel 

<div>A small public building decorated to show local attractions in the Stonehouse area of Plymouth. It's located to the left of a path that is reached by crossing Eldad Hill - opposite Western Spares motorcycle dealers.&nbsp;</div>

Eldad Hill pumping station

<div>A fantastical submarine painted on the entrance to the Western Approach car park</div>

Submarine

<div>Many artworks painted on hoardings around a building site of a veterans' self build project which is underway, so artworks may be refreshed and removed as the build progresses. There's also a community art gallery of framed artworks, many with a remembrance theme, and a decorated seat on the grass of Honicknowle Green nearby.&nbsp;</div>

Street Gallery, Honicknowle Green

<div>A monster's ball spread across the four spaces on an electricity substation facing onto the car park.</div>

Monster House

<div>An octopus climbing up the Winstanley Lighthouse - the first lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks - reaching up to the third lighthouse, Smeaton's Tower, which now stands on Plymouth Hoe. Painted on the Salumi restaurant,with other marine creatures on the wall by the street.</div>

Smeaton's Tower octopus

<div>A nature scene featuring a fox, robins and butterflies on a floral background. Comissioned by landlord Plymouth Community Homes - it's by an entrance of the tower block, reached by a pedestrian walkway from Western Approach or from Market Way, off Cornwall Street, diagonally opposite the Newmarket Tavern.&nbsp;</div>

Morley Court mural

Joanne Pritchard

<div>Sunflowers painted on a fence in the Victoria Road Play Area, opposite the park entrance on Victoria Road. &nbsp;</div>

Sunflowers

<div>A floral makeover of a previously neglected electricity substation, funded by its owners Western Power. It's located in Freedom Fields Park, but the front of the building (with the door) can be seen from Lipson Road.</div>

Freedom Fields substation

Various

<div> A legal graffiti space that is constantly updated with new designs - those in our photos may be long gone. The tunnel is pedestrian/bicycle only and is located under Stonehouse Bridge.</div>

Richmond Walk Tunnel - legal graffiti wall

Serena June

<div>Painted on the wall of Really Good Records - in Plymouth, geddon means go for it! Part of the Plymouth Selfie Project, which created murals for locals and visitors to pose with.</div>

Geddon Plymouth!

Laura Wall

<div>Painted on the end of a house facing Shapters Road, it's best seen from the pedestrian road bridge just in front of it.</div>

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