Walking in Brixton today I spotted this tile, newly affixed to a lamppost. Please click to enlarge.
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A very professional piece of street art by The Baroness, aka Carrie Reichardt.
I don’t know whether she placed it here herself or whether somone bought the tile from her and has decided to donate it to the people of Brixton.
You may have seen her PhooLan the Elephant outside the Natural History Museum as part of the Elephant Parade last year.
“Carrie Reichardt along with her partner, co-founded The Treatment Rooms, the UK’s only ceramic house of resistance.”
There is a lot more information about The Baroness and her work, on the Carrie Reichardt website here.
Yesterday I noticed this small piece of new street art in Southwark.
Just beneath the street sign, is this very well made little golden frog on a tile. I do hope that it fares better than the ill-fated pig of Bourchier Street.
I have no idea who the artist is, if anyone does know, please drop me a line.
Update 8th June 2011:
Thanks to a very helpful comment from Caroline of “Caroline’s Miscellany” this frog has now been identified as one of Xylo’s Panamanian Golden Frogs. More on Xylo here. If you haven’t seen Caroline’s Blog before I cannot recommend it too highly, you can read it here.
It reminded me of the two golden frogs on the front of The George on Fleet Street.
The George’s other carvings deserve a post on their own, and they will get one, just as soon as I can remember which folder they are in!
The little plastic pig that briefly adorned a tile in Bourchier Street has been removed.
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The pig’s brief reign as “London’s Smallest Permanent Public Sculpture” has thus come to an end with the Philpot Lane mice regaining their title. If anybody spots any similar works by the artist I would be grateful for leads.
This little work of art has been on the south west corner of Birchin Lane, in the City of London, for a couple of years now.
I have never been able to track down the artist, does anyone know whose work this is and if there are other London examples?
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