The Michael Jackson Mural (2011)

In 2011, I was attending the Nottingham University Samworth Academy sixth form, where I undertook a Creative and Media Advance Diploma. One of the units of this diploma involved me creating a piece of creative work which I was commissioned to complete.
This involved me brainstorming ideas with my work partner Rhiannon Twigg, making a list of the materials we would require to create the work, collect the materials needed, as well as actually create the piece of work.
Our idea was to create a mural which would be kept in the sixth form way after Rhiannon and myself had left. It would be a way we would leave our permanent imprint on the school, and embody our time there. It was while we were walking down a corridor that joined the P.E section of the school to the music section one day that we began to discuss the ideas we had.
We decided to re-coat an already existing mural of a runner going from the crouching position to the running position, and also add an iconic Michael Jackson silhouette which would join the sports and music sections.
We began work on the mural during the Easter Holidays of 2011. Here are some photographs;

The completed mural behind protective perspex.

Once we had completed the mural, the school was so happy with it that they placed it behind protective perspex plastic to ensure that it wouldn't get damaged.