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Grand designs for historic pub once run by Leeds United legend Peter L:orimer
Yorkshire Evening Post
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14/03/2025
The Commercial on Sweet Street, which was once run by Leeds United legend Peter Lorimer, has been transformed into a striking new cultural landmark thanks to a mural by Kid Acne.
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Final shipping forecast is due for the Met Office at 2343 on Saturday the 18th.
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They're all in the go.
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What I loved about painting on a large scale was just the immediacy of it and the energy
00:14
and that really comes down to using spray paint.
00:16
So I loved the fact that I could take a drawing and transpose that onto a large scale in a short amount of time.
00:24
My name's Kid Acne. I'm an artist, illustrator, printmaker, MC.
00:30
I've spent my whole adult life in Sheffield.
00:35
This current project is in Leeds, two elevations of the commercial pub in Holbeck.
00:41
Because the building's got all these obstacles, all that kind of fed into how I broke the composition down
00:49
to make it manageable so that I could make a lot of those things disappear.
00:54
For me now, when I'm painting on a big scale like this mural, I'm really trying to keep that same energy
01:02
and that same rawness of the original sketch and that's the hardest bit of it.
01:13
These characters, they go back to kind of like mid-90s.
01:17
Stylistically, it kind of comes from my drawings as a kid.
01:21
And the headdresses, that was inspired by the Maurice Sendak book, Where the Wild Things Are.
01:27
The kids in animal costumes, it was a good way of showing different emotions, different sort of temperaments.
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Yeah, each individual character, in its own right, is probably the size of a regular piece that I paint.
01:41
So to have that many of them in a row, yeah, it's been really cool to do and see them as kind of like an army
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of different personalities from different walks of life.
01:52
It's just been such a positive experience.
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They've got a banner of text running through the middle, positive energy activates, constant elevation.
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You know, all these northern cities, they're just an hour apart.
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If you grew up painting graffiti or being into street art, there was a network of artists in between all these cities.
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And for me, I felt that's the equivalent of like northeast, southwest London.
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But yeah, it's really nice to sort of bridge that gap a little bit more.
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And projects like this are a good way of doing that.
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