New Bailey & Ellis Brigham Bees

City In The Bee

Benny The Bee

City In The Bee
My New Bailey sponsored bee echoes the murals that I painted in Stevenson Square after the Manchester Arena attack last year – to show positivity, solidarity with and love for Manchester. With so many bee motifs popping up across the city, I thought it would be nice to have a city, with a stylised Manchester skyline, within the Bee.

Blank bee

Spraypaint background.

Acrylic clouds and first buildings

Progress

Awkward angles

Backside ft. New Bailey and Civil Justice Centre

Concentration face

Losing light

Family portrait

Secret antennae bee

Benny The Bee
Sponsored by Ellis Brigham, Benny The Bee is named after Benny Rothman; a keen activist and rambler who in 1932 led a mass trespass of over 400 walkers on a route around Kinder Scout, to exercise their right to roam, in defiance of the government’s recent decision to deny ramblers access to parts of open country. The map on the base shows the route the tankers took from Bowden Bridge quarry, up towards Kinder Scout. The plaster on Benny’s head hints at the scuffles and confrontations that took place between gamekeepers and some of the ramblers.

Scruffy masking

Cocooning base in tape to cut map details from

Fox, carrying rat

Map stencils

Benny’s plaster

Benny’s backpack