Morgan's Wall
Morgan's Wall
Archive type:
Video
Archive ID:
lcva_89273
Date:
1978
Location:
Unknown
Chroma:
Colour
Duration:
00:51:58
Format:
16mm
Credits:
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Synopsis
This critical yet optimistic documentary looks at community murals painted around London, from the Westway flyover to West Hampstead, in the process highlighting the problems of urban decay and gentrification. Artist Brian Barnes oversees the creation of a huge mural on the wall of the Morgan Crucible Company in Battersea, with contributions from local people as both artists and subjects. The Morgan's Wall mural was controversially destroyed in 1979, the year after this film was made, when the Morgan Crucible Company demolished the wall on which it was painted.