street art mural

(Translated by Google) Passionate about street art, I noticed these in and around Rutland St. that I hadn't seen on my previous visits to Leicester. Remarkable! My daughter, who lives here, explained to me that the three main symbols of the city are represented on the big skyscraper: the fox which is the symbol of the Leicester football team, an astronaut is represented in the middle to recall the Leicester space center and finally the tiger, symbol of the city's rugby team. Going around and looking around the city there are obviously many other interesting corners of street art. I add a photo of a steel/aluminum sculpture of a fox perched on a building behind Leicester market, seen almost by chance. (Original) Appassionata di street art, ho notato questi in Rutland St. e dintorni che non avevo ancora visto nelle mie visite precedenti a Leicester. Notevoli! Mi ha spiegato mia figlia, che vive qui, che sul grattacielo grande sono rappresentati i tre principali simboli della citt: la volpe che il simbolo della squadra di calcio di Leicester, in mezzo rappresentato un astronauta a ricordare il centro spaziale di Leicester ed infine la tigre, simbolo della squadra di rugby della citt. Girando e cercando per la citt ci sono ovviamente tanti altri angoli interessanti di street art. Aggiungo una foto di una scultura in acciaio/alluminio di una volpe abbarbicata su un palazzo dietro al Leicester market, vista quasi per caso.
Feb 18th, 2023

Some very talented people. It really brightens up the place and is eye catching.
Sep 13th, 2018

These Street Art murals are here because, on 27th May 2017, Leicester City Council funded a festival called the "Bring the Paint International Street Art Festival" to encourage street artists to come to this part of Leicester City - which has been designated by the Council as "The Cultural Quarter" - and paint a wide variety of designs on blank walls. The Council paid for "cherry picker" elevating platforms so that normally inaccessible locations like these could be decorated. The results can be seen in a wide number of eye-catching designs (and some which seem, to me, to be somewhat rather self-indulgent self-portraits of the artist concerned) in often unexpected parts of this area. The festival returns to Leicester in May 2019.
Jul 9th, 2018