A couple of weekends ago, I noticed a wall on Bacon Street was being prepared for a new mural. Eager to discover what it was, I headed back last weekend and saw the finished piece by street artist JimmyC, an artist that I originally covered here. The artist painted a mural off Brick Lane at the beginning of the year featuring a local family on the side of their shop, Joe's Kid.
The new mural features the face of another resident of Shoreditch on Bacon Street. It's painted next to the Charlie Burns mural by Ben Slow, another resident. This mural shows Mick.
The mural shows buildings coming out of Mick's hat, and according to JimmyC, this shows that the area of Shoreditch is changing forever due to ongoing gentification around Bacon and Sclater Street. The artist also anticipated that the buildings would be boarded up for removal in a couple of weeks, so do see these wonderful murals before they are lost forever. The street has hosted several new murals in the past few weeks, so a visit will be worthwhile.
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