A new mural has been installed above the entrance to Brixton Tube station, and it's a good 'un.
Brixton Tube station has a bold new look. Again. The large panel above the entrance steps has been refreshed with a new mural — the ninth in an annual series of artistic interventions.
This time around, Rudy Loewe has the Art on the Underground commission. The London-based artist has come up with the goods, creating an image that's both eye-catching and full of local references.
The mural emphasises the strong sense of community that Brixton has always enjoyed, including "people chatting outside spiritual shop The Powerful Hand, queues outside popular Jamaican restaurant Healthy Eaters, teenage girls walking through the streets, women shopping with young children at the market on Electric Avenue and men chatting in Windrush Square".
But the artist doesn't shy away from the tensions and challenges that have also characterised recent history. The mural includes several scenes of protest and resistance against racism and gentrification. On the left, we can see activist Marcia Rigg posed as in her virtual statue Holding the Flame, in memory of her brother, Sean Rigg, who died under custody in Brixton Police Station in 2008.
Overall, though, the artwork presents Brixton as a bustling, lively place full of colour and character.
Says Rudy Loewe:
I wanted to capture the aliveness of Brixton. As soon as you step out of the Tube station, there's such a rich sensorial experience and it was this that I wanted to transmute into painting. There are preachers, loud music, people singing; you can hardly walk down the street without having an unexpected conversation with someone. It makes it a very special place in London. To me, there is something about all of this that is so West Indian and that I wanted to foreground.
You can admire the mural at Brixton station until November 2026.
Our coverage of the murals from 2018 (and video), 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024
