Taste is everything!
Spring Shroud installed on Deansgate at rush hour
Two of the shrouds installed by Piccadilly Station.
Installing a shroud - two people, one ladder, approximately 45 seconds.
We need to stand up and preserve trees in the street!
Some of the 100 hand screen printed shrouds drying in our studio at Hotspur House.
Shrouds drying in the studio.
Spring Shrouds
'Spring Shrouds' responded to a commission from comedian Mark Thomas, to create temporary space from advertising in Manchester, on a busy rush hour morning.
This collaboration between artists and anti-consumerism campaigners saw a small army of volunteers create and install a handmade canvas 'shroud' for every street based advert shell in the city.
In all we produced 100 ad shell shrouds, each carrying the image of a tree and the legend 'trees breathe - adverts suck'.
The spring shroud action happened across the city on the morning of the 4th May 2007 -coincidentally UHC's 5th Birthday.
A few precious moments of peace and beauty were snatched, in place of the incessant chatter of advertising. Space was liberated and the brief vision of streets lined with trees, rather than metal hoardings, was glimpsed.
Article in Manchester Evening News