MURWALLS - BORN OUT OF THE LOVE OF FOOTBALL, A PASSION FOR ART AND AN EXTRAORDINARY ACT OF KINDNESS

BORN OUT OF THE LOVE OF FOOTBALL, A PASSION FOR ART AND AN EXTRAORDINARY ACT OF KINDNESS

MURWALLS:

BORN OUT OF THE LOVE OF FOOTBALL, A PASSION FOR ART, AND AN EXTRAORDINARY ACT OF KINDNESS

HARLOW RESIDENT MARC SILVER has been running Media Group, Square Rock for 12 years, running events, creating award winning global publications, and working with some of the world’s finest artists.

With almost 25 years of experience in Art and Design Marc has an unrivalled CV of collaborations and connections with some of the UK’s most prestigious brands and celebrities.

Whilst decorating his home Marc had a brainwave and decided to commission a piece of original street art for his 9-year-old sons bedroom wall.

“We hired “Gnasher” - David Nash (who started his graffiti career back in 1985 in Harlow) to create a bespoke West Ham themed mural for my son’s bedroom wall. Having him over and chatting to him was incredibly inspiring and encouraged me to learn more about the potential commerciality of Street Art. I decided to setup MurWalls with the tagline ‘Street Art in your home’ – offering bespoke murals and graffiti in ordinary people’s homes... but then Covid struck and home visits were halted literally overnight!”

Our Prestigious CV:

BBC Sport – Match of The Day opener 2020 Keith Lemon / Stirling Eco – we customised Keith’s e-bike Dame Vera Lyn – tribute Marcus Rashford – tribute Graham Taylor – tribute for Watford FC Sergio Agüero – for Man City Silverstone – Murray Walker Edinburgh – Commonwealth Gold Medalist

Rather than sit and wait Covid out with Gnasher and Mr. Meana as his lead artists Marc pivoted, using his time in Lockdown to re-connect with old contacts and establish commercial relationships for MurWalls. They started working with West Ham after showing them a project they did for Spurs fan, Ella Markham.

“16-year-old Ella has Down’s syndrome and had been the victim of terrible online bullying after her dad had posted a video of her dancing at a game after her beloved Tottenham FC had played. We offered her the mural to cheer her up and boost her morale. It worked. We showed the creation to a contact at West Ham and they loved it. They signed to work with us and even recommended us to Liverpool Football Club.”

Since then, Marc has continued to build connections and agree more licences,

“We now have licences to work with brands such as England Rugby, Manchester City, Brighton & Hove Albion, Care Bears and HASBRO including Transformers, NERF, My Little Pony and Monopoly, to name a few!”

“We work on a project-by-project basis. I have a core management and logistics team and dependant on the brief, we create a design and collaborate with the artist most suited to the subject/brief”

“Because of the nature of the art we are producing much of our creations go viral which has meant we need to do very little advertising. We’re currently working on a very exciting project we are hoping to create locally in or around Harlow for a big Hollywood blockbuster... watch this space!”

You can follow @MurWalls on social media. For more information or to commission MurWalls please visit www.murwalls.com

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