This autumn, nearly fifty painted bus charity sculptures have appeared in London's streets to celebrate 2014 as the Year of the Bus. The bus sculptures started to appear at the end of October and will remain in their locations until early December. The buses have been brought to London by the London Transport Musuem (and Wild in Art, the company responsible for many of the charity art sculpture trails) to raise money for charities.
Stephen McKay - London Telephone Bus
I spent a couple of lunch breaks and had trips up to London at the weekend in order to track down this bus art sculptures across London! I am showing my favourites here.
Sian Storey - Swinging London
The Year of the Bus celebrates London's iconic red buses. This year marks the anniversaries of different types of buses, and a hundred years have passed since the first motor bus, which carried soldiers in 1914. This year also marked the introduction of the new Routemaster buses, which I saw unveiled at the London Transport Museum three years ago, to London's streets.
Mandii Pope - Buckingham Palace Bus
Four main trails for the bus sculptures included the Olympic Park, City of London, River (around London Bridge), and Westminster/Soho.
Beth Quinton - Moquette
The Great War was a theme common for some of the buses. Another bus was decoated like Buckingham Palace, and another was painted to look like a row of telephone boxes.
Crispin Finn - Ding! Ding!
I honestly cannot pick a favourite bus art design! There were so many that Ioved, and the bus is a great canvas. More photographs are below.
Sarah Jane Grace - Poppy Fields
Cath Kidston
Damien Jeffery - Rock 'n' Royal
Kristel Pillkhan - Spectrum
Jane Callan - Brollybus
Mini Moderns - Push Once
Srokowski Design - Invisible to the Environment
A large selection of buses
Michelle Heron - Tower Bridge Bus
Detail from 'Travels with Edward' by Valerie Osment
Jenny Leonard - Lord Mayor of the City of Westminster bus
These are not all of the buses on display at the moment. Another trail of buses will appear on London's streets before Christmas, and word has it that it will be based in Croydon. I believe that the bus art sculptures will be auctioned off in January.
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