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Camille Walala's Latest Artwork is a Sprawling, Multi-Building Mural
Camille Walala’s Latest Artwork is a Sprawling, Multi-Building Mural
London art collective Wood Street Walls commissioned the designer’s new community-funded artwork.
Photo Courtesy Wood Street Walls
Camille Walala, the London-based textile designer known for her colorful geometric prints, murals and installations, has just transformed a series of facades in east London with a vast artwork titled “Walala Parade.” Her signature grids, triangles and spots span almost an entire block.
Walala has previously designed attention-grabbing surfaces in several cities, including pedestrian crossings in London’s White City neighborhood. Her distinctive, Instagrammable murals, she says, are inspired by the Memphis design movement in Italy, aesthetics of Ndebele artists of Zimbabwe and South Africa and the Hungarian-French artist Victor Vasarely. The mural in Leyton, a collaboration with local art collective Wood Street Walls, was uniquely designed to decorate a complex mixture of architectural surfaces including windows, corners, and shopfronts with roll-down garage doors. Walala responded to the challenge of integrating various shapes, colors and fonts by keeping the design relatively simple. ‘I want to say ‘less is more,’ but I don’t know if that can really apply to my work,’ she says with a laugh.
Camille Walala’s Latest Artwork is a Sprawling, Multi-Building Mural
London art collective Wood Street Walls commissioned the designer’s new community-funded artwork.
Photo Courtesy Wood Street Walls
Camille Walala, the London-based textile designer known for her colorful geometric prints, murals and installations, has just transformed a series of facades in east London with a vast artwork titled “Walala Parade.” Her signature grids, triangles and spots span almost an entire block.
Walala has previously designed attention-grabbing surfaces in several cities, including pedestrian crossings in London’s White City neighborhood. Her distinctive, Instagrammable murals, she says, are inspired by the Memphis design movement in Italy, aesthetics of Ndebele artists of Zimbabwe and South Africa and the Hungarian-French artist Victor Vasarely. The mural in Leyton, a collaboration with local art collective Wood Street Walls, was uniquely designed to decorate a complex mixture of architectural surfaces including windows, corners, and shopfronts with roll-down garage doors. Walala responded to the challenge of integrating various shapes, colors and fonts by keeping the design relatively simple. ‘I want to say ‘less is more,’ but I don’t know if that can really apply to my work,’ she says with a laugh.