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The Forest Hill Mural

SE23.life

20 Nov '17

In March 2018, @Lionel Stanhope, assisted by Owain Nicholls, painted a brand new mural to welcome people to Forest Hill.

Location

Waldram Crescent (AKA South Circular) under the railway bridge, on the Eastern side as indicated here:

The SE23.life community guided this project from start (in May 2016) to finish.

Our whirlwind crowdfunder raised £2,500 in just 75 hours.

Thank you to the 69 people who generously donated to this project, and in particular to the following, who each donated £100+

@ChrisBeach: £500 (part funded by all the businesses who promoted on this forum)
@Anotherjohn: £150
@Armadillo: £100 - and also contributing a very popular Walrus to the design
@TheButcherySE23: £100
(local butcher: http://thebutcheryltd.com)
Adrian and Paul: £100
@Londondrz: £100
@Place_in_Print: £100
(local design studio and online shop: http://www.placeinprint.com/)
@BMSE23: £100
(local estate agent: http://www.benjamin-matthews.co.uk/)
@Bolgerp: £100

Painting: March 23-24th
Risk Assessment:
- @Lionel has liased with Network Rail to provide a risk assessment tweaked to suit FH
Cleaning the wall: March 17th.
Arrange parking for the artist’s van
Run Crowdfunder: 8th January, ran for 75 hours before exceeding target
Network Rail permission:
- @Pauline spoke with Ed from Network Rail on 5/12 & all is good to go with them
Colour / variant selection
Selected a site: the rail bridge underpass on Waldram Crescent (AKA South Circular)
Lined up our first willing artist with a quote and mulitple design variants ready to put to the vote.
Secured permissions in principle
Secured our first major donors in principle
Call for designs 18th November - 11th December 2017
- We have mockups from @Lionel in the traditional rail style with two colour options, and a fun walrussy variant created by @Armadillo, which Lionel has confirmed he’s able to paint.
- A prominent local street artist responded to say she supported @Lionel’s bid so would not be submitting a design of her own.
- A local designer has submitted a design. No artist/quote was submitted before the deadline so this design will not be featured in the vote
Designing the voting process
- The (opt-in) @FH_Mural group decided how voting will work for design and colour options.
Initial idea suggested by @thirstforwine: May 2016

Painting: £2,100 for painting. Any excess to be used for contingency or donated to the Forest Hill Society.
Maintenance Fund: £250 for accounting reasons we’ll collect only the sum for the painting
Crowdfunding: Up to 12% in crowdfunding site fees + transaction fees

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