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Concrete Canvas 2022: 10 local artists created designs on a row of bollards for Concrete Canvas 2022.

Concrete Canvas 2023: All of the designs created for the CCTV bases were informed by information provided by the Community Safety Team. It is fascinating to see how 6 artists with the same brief have taken their artwork in different directions. Get Your Portraits design is based on the idea that when you are in a difficult situation you might have the response to fight, flight, or freeze

Artists Profile: Getyourportaits is an urban artist working with mixed media, including spray paint, acrylic paint, paint pens and oil pastels. They are currently exploring the relationship between the abstract and the crisp stencil image portraying how they interact on the page. Getyourportraits captures both the personality of the subject as well as the artist, with the use of bright colours and patterns; often creating a juxtaposition against the background as it seeps into the foreground.