A photographic and historical view of the city of Derby and its surroundings

Mark Miley

Derby In Pictures

A photographic and historical view of the city of Derby and its surroundings

Mark Miley

Derby In Pictures

Graffiti and Street Art

The Big Yard

In 2016 a derelict site on Great Northern Road, which had once been a Client Logic call centre, was demolished and became a graffiti park called the Big Yard. For 3 years this site attracted some of the best street artists in the country

May 2016

February 2017

May 2017

January 2018

October 2018

April 2019

Cathedral Green

Sometime after the closure of the Big Yard, a new new, legal, street art wall was created on Cathedral Green

Lara Croft Way

Following completion of the Inner ring Road a few years ago an arts collective called Subism were commissioned to provide some art work for the area. Working with local schools they created the mural shown in the picture below

Illustration

Green lane

Commissioned art work for the side of the old Debenhams building, now Silly Sid's, on Green Lane. The mural is a look at a possible future Derby in 100 years time and has been painted by artists Aaron Murphy and Diana Bechmann. Sadly this has now been removed following redevelopment of the area

Illustration

There has recently been an interest in street art on the sides of buildings in the city which has resulted in the paintings shown below

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