CREATION PROJECT
About Creation Project
We intend to give back to the cities people the relationship between them and nature which existed before all the space was given over to advertising hoardings. We advocate the banishment of ‘traditional graffiti in favor of new iconoclism which dominates while, at the same time, working in tandem with the architecture which surrounds it.
Manifesto: Creation Movement or Federation of United Community Artists (F.U.C.A.)
Look around you. Look at the tangle of wiring and billboards your urban landscapes have become. Look at the nasty splash of graffiti along the sleek lines of your city’s buildings. The Creation project has arrived to free you of this chaotic visual dictatorship.
In 2001, the Creation Project was formed to reaffirm original architectural idealism by forging with it an appreciation of how the modern world has evolved. The project has endeavoured to realign the balance between modern technology, architecture and mankind, linking it with current sociological concerns about urban decay. Only by integrating the ghettoisation of our streets and culture will we ever survive the decay around us. This can be done by utilising the decorative nature of street art to create a hybrid building that is graphical in design and harnessing the dynamics of existing buildings by decorating them according to their constructive architecture. We propose a new city where animated graphics form our perception of architecture.
About Creation Crew
The Creation Project is a collaboration of urban artists and designers under the manifesto of the Federation of United Community Artists (F.U.C.A.). The Creation Movement was founded by Aidan Hughes & Rory Wilmer in 2001 and has installed Creations in Liverpool (UK), London (UK), Prague (CZ), New York (USA), Athens (GR) and Amsterdam (NL).
Aidan Hughes was born and educated in Merseyside, England, artist Aidan Hughes’ influences include the woodcuts of Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward, the comic art of Jack Kirby, the propaganda posters of the Russian Constructivists and Italy’s Dynamo Futurista and the paintings of John Martin. He founded é publications with Malcolm Bennett in 1979, producing literature and performing in the UK and Europe until the late 80’s. After relocating to Europe and then the US, Hughes finally returned to the UK where he continues to paint and work as a commercial illustrator. Email Aidan bruteprop www.bruteprop.com
Rory Wilmer was born in Guildford and studied Media Production HND in Chester moving on to Interaction Design BA in London and then studied Fine Art in Liverpool. Spent a few years working in web design and TV production design until he became disillusioned with his surroundings and the commercial design world. He left the UK in 2005 and after traveling around Eastern Europe documenting street art. Ended up in Prague, Czech Republic where he now works teaching design & interactive media whilst being part of the Creation Movement. Email Rory rawcut www.rorywilmer.co.uk
CREATION: Barga Wall
The Barga Wall as a foundation wall for a car park in Barga Tuscany Italy. After a long night we managed to cover 70 meters of it before the workmen returned in the morning to start filling the foundations and burying the artwork. Here’s what the local newspaper said about it:
The long running story of the new cark park being built just below Barga Vecchia took a new twist this morning with the discovery that during the night a graffiti artist had used the new concrete retaining wall as a canvas for his latest “masterpiece”.
As the above image shows, the 75 metre long retaining wall that had only been erected less than a week before was now longer a pristine white but a colour design stretching the full length and width of the wall.
The sheer size of the work has surprised many. The absence of a moon over the weekend must have made the work extremely difficult to do in the dark but of course also helped to keep the whole thing hidden from the eyes of passing motorists, that is until the dawn came up to reveal the completed image.
Local authorities are not that amused by the whole affair but are slightly more relaxed about the incident in the knowledge that the wall will be covered in earth in the coming weeks. Local people and the occasional tourists with cameras have been seen gathering on the road above the wall to look at and photograph the wall before it is once more hidden from view.
In the bottom right hand corner of the wall there is a signature which reads “BRUTE! 2003” A search on the internet brings up the information that the name BRUTE! is used by an artist living in England called Aidan Hughes who has created other works of art of large dimensions such as the Barga Wall in other places in Europe including Britain, France and the Czech Republic. - full article here
