Capturing Brixton: The TFL Tube Commissions

Bolanle Tajudeen talks to artists Joy Labingo and Rudy Loewe about their past and future Art on the Underground commissions for Brixton tube station. TFL’s Brixton mural programme invites artists to respond to the diverse narratives of the local murals painted in the 1980s, the rapid development of the area and the wider social and political history of mural making. How did these artists respond to a changing Brixton today, draw on Brixton’s rich cultural landscape and translate personal notions of the Black British experience into public art seen by thousands using one of South London’s busiest tube stations.