The artists keen to get involved and leave their mark on the Duke of Lancaster begin to come flooding forward and October sees two more artists leaving their ‘corrupt’ statements. Bristolian artist, Bungle, creates his imposing character, ‘The Face of Authority’. This piece was the biggest challenge the artist had ever taken on and the finished result is an intimidating and impressive figure
The Duke's rusting hull has lain derelict off the North Wales coast for 28 years, a corroding bulk jutting into a dramatic seascape. But now, as Darren Devine reports, moves are underway to turn decaying cruise liner the Duke of Lancaster into an open-air gallery
Maurice Blunt had drifted away from the street art scene that defined her teenage years when she spotted the Duke of Lancaster from a train.
For Blunt the moment was an epiphany that left her almost wanting to pull the train’s emergency handle as a vision of “something special” flashed through her mind.
The moment would re-awaken her slumbering enthusiasm for street art and crystallise her role in a movement she both loved and felt semi-detached from.
Her vision was to transform the Duke of Lancaster from a long-forgotten liner into an open-air gallery bedecked in the creations of some of Europe’s edgiest and best-known street artists.
Blunt, who has called her project DuDug (a Welsh play on words for the Black Duke), said: “ I got in touch with some of my old contacts and ran the idea of painting her by them.
“Some were happy to help, others had retired and some new fresh names were thrown into the pot.”
Nowadays she is a 38-year-old Manchester and Dublin-based events coordinator. But Blunt says that although when she was a teenager she admired the work of friends, her own lack of artistic talent meant she was never fully immersed in the culture of street art.
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