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TAKING OVER THE KING’S LAND

During the whole project The King’s Land the process of creating murals over an entire derelict housing estate was being documented by film and photography.

The film, TAKING OVER THE KING’S LAND  (running time 23:00) is complete and is being released by New Reel Films. It’s being submitted to festivals at present. For more about the film, click on the menu above.

Here’s the trailer:

Taking Over the King’s Land  on Vimeo.

There will also be a short book published by Studio75 to accompany the film, coming out in late 2013.

The King’s Land in The Urban Snap

The Urban Snap street art blogger has been following the King’s Land since its early days and he paid a visit to the site the other day.

NAZIR TANBOULI by THE URBAN SNAP  © 2012 The Urban Snap – London’s Finest Street Art

LATEST MURAL!

IT’S THE OPENING of the project today but I could not resist bloggin this photos. Last night at about 9 pm I completed the last ever King’s Land mural. It is 2 full  colour murals on upper balconies of the bricked off building. (this is just one of the 2)

These 2 were actually the first murals I did but i soon realised that the heaviness of them (acrylic on paper) would not stand up to the weather if put in an unprotected place. And for sure the weather turned out worse than anyone ever expected this season! But yesterday my good friend DJ MR TAD brought me a scaffold and so Anna and I were able to get up onto the bricked off balcony and mount these murals in a place where they’d be protected. The bricked off bit was pretty vile though, a sludge of dead rats and sewage from the broken drains, all kinds of crap we had to stand in it when we put up the murals. Will never forget that!

Ok it’s time to go off to the party. After 3 months hard labour  I’d like to say I’m gonna relax and enjoy the fruits of my labour but actually I a won’t be able to: I am booked for a gig of live drawing at the Lost Dawn club night in Kings Cross at 11 pm till 2 am. And tomorrow I have to go look at a new wall …

Two New Creatures

Despite the weather two new creatures have appeared on The King’s Land, swimming up and plonking themselves on the wall, peeping in the window… We had a day of sun, and this is what happened:

They are on Whiston Road.

It’s raining again, needless to say.

New mural – May 12

above, Nazir with Alessandra, artist assistant

BACK TO THE WALL!

INK ON PAPER ON WALL

The rain stopped temporarily and i’m back on the wall.still very windy and cold though but at least dry for now.

Below: details –

 

 

Unbelievable!

I can hardly believe it. Yesterday it was marginally sunny and nice and I got ready to get out and do murals. But my assistant could not make it so I put it off till Thursday – today. I wake up today and it’s RAIN AGAIN. I mean – AGAIN!

That means we had one (count it ONE) dry and barely-sunny day since exactly 1 April.

I’m glad I didn’t do a mural yesterday cos it  would not have had time to dry properly. Lesson to be learned: paste-ups are a risk in England. But even if I was using paint, the walls are streaming and nothing would work. The old crumbly walls hold a lot of damp too, that’s why whatever you’re using needs some time to dry.

please put me on the wall!

On another note, the project is featured in the excellent blog “MiddleEastLondon”

 

This one’s done

The weather has been really awful for April! Very cold, which makes it hard to be mobile when dong the fine work, and occasional very heavy showers that come and undo your work soon as you’re happy with it.

Still, we’re going strong. This wall on Laburnum Street was completed yesterday:

 

New Walls

Nazir Tanbouli April 2 and 3 2012