As part of our B-SIDE Hip-Hop Festival celebrations, a spectacular bespoke mural was installed on the side of our building on Hurst Street. In partnership with The Southside Building, we commissioned a large scale artwork by renowned Birmingham based graffiti artist Zuke that champions creativity and expressive art.

We met with Zuke to talk about the inspiration behind his design and the challenges of creating a piece on this scale:

Installed on the side of Birmingham Hippodrome on Thorp Street, the mural portrays a dancer called Bee Girl, (playing on B-GIRL dancers), alongside messages of peace, love and unity, representing the diversity of Southside. The dramatic artwork is the height of four double decker buses and took a week to paint. You can watch a timelapse of the progress below…