En Masse is a group of street artists from Montreal. Their name means 'all together' in French, and the group was founded by Tim Barnard and Jason Botkin in 2009. It is now under direction from Botkin and Rupert Bottenberg, and the group are active in the world of art and not limited to producing art on the streets. According to their website (1), the group strives to produce collaborative artwork that creates a collective style and vision which enables enhanced creativity from the group, and they've worked with over 250 other artists internationally.
The group visited London and spent the last week painting the Village Underground mural. The result is a strking black and white mural with many different faces and other imagery. When I visited it on Sunday morning, an artist was completing the final touches on the far right-hand corner of the wall. Some detailed photographs of some of the faces that I found impressive are below.
The work actually reminded me a little bit of Amara Por Dios' work at the beginning of the year, which I covered here: Amara Por Dios: Village Underground. She also used black and white to convey several abstract faces. I am unsure if En Masse would have seen her work prior to creating theirs, but it's a great piece and a piece that I want to spend time to look at in order to see all of the different faces.
For more information about En Masse, view their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/enmasse
1) En Masse. http://enmasse.info/about/ [12 April 2015].
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