Street artist Helen Blur has recently returned to London and painted a new mural on Redchurch Street. I saw the work in progress earlier in the week and popped over on Thursday in order to get a photograph of it. Helen Blur (abcdefghelens) often depicts people in unfortunate circumstances. The new mural shows a man carrying a small house on his back. This may represent the cost of housing and that people in the area are being pushed out due to high prices or immigration in general.
Helen Blur collaborated with Wasp Elder on a mural on Hanbury Street this spring, which I have covered here. She also created another mural on Pedley Street, which did not last long. The work on Pedley Street I had captured while it was in progress, and it shows a figure of a larger person controlling smaller people as they walk from one tent into another, all dressed in white with colourful outfits hanging between tents. This looks to me like a description of slavery. Perhaps the conforming people in white, which look tired and controlled, are modern-day slaves forced to create new clothing.
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