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Recently I had to go to Yorkhill Hospital for various routine check ups and tests so I decided to turn it into a photographic outing after I found out it was also a great viewpoint.
Part of Yorkhill Hospital lies abandoned (with a security guard) with some services moved into the new hospital at Govan .....but the general surrounding area has an interesting mix of buildings....
Late 1800s architecture here...
Same building with a construction date of 1887.
Newer buildings... still Yorkhill District...
The upper floors and spires of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum as seen from Yorkhill.
The period red sandstone tenements that Glasgow is famous for the world over. Probably late 1800s to early 1900s era construction and still looking good today.
University of Glasgow and an elegant blond sandstone terrace in front to frame it.
The more modern University Library and Gallery of Modern Art building plus the C.R Mackintosh House. The last two mentioned here are open to the well behaved general public as is the Hunterian Museum next door, which is situated directly under the latticework stone spire in the main building photo, above.
The Clydeside Expressway Murals sit not too far away down several sloping streets from the hospital so I went there next as I noticed dozens of new murals had appeared recently. City Tourist Bus here. A perfect dry day for it.
China Bull Mural. A clever idea this from a popular saying.
Butterfly Girl. Over the last ten years or so this long mural wall and the lane behind these railway arches has developed into a major street art attraction in Glasgow.
One of my personal favourites was the Cleopatra mural that graced this gable end in the back lane last time I was down this way but it's now been replaced by this one. Luckily I got a photo of it in time before it disappeared.
And a new favourite. Cat and Quantum Physics girl. ( the book she's reading.)
A couple of abstract ones....
Really good levels of skill in street art now and a wide range of different styles.
A creative intruder.... Maybe a young local thinking ' I'm as good at art as they are! Here's my effort!'..... and I only need two colours!
Egyptian mural.
and Death... the great leveler for winged creatures, walkers, crawlers, hoppers and slithery beasts alike... rich or poor...angel or demon... there's no escape in the end...for everyone and everything.
Fashion Female.
Hummingbird colours. Very delicate, almost mist like approach to painting here. Really liked this one.
Two fish swimming and a bird mural from the same guy that put up animal murals in the Shawbridge Shopping Arcade in the last post.
Open gate in Yardworks lane.
Dice mural.
Fox mural.
Guy and snake mural.
Unicorn...
Yeti and waterfall...and at least two dozen others in the same location. This is just some of my own favourites here.
Not a bad way to spend an afternoon in the city. Also within walking distance of the Tall Ship, The Riverside Museum, Glasgow Distillery, Glasgow Harbour, Kelvingrove Park, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Museum, and Glasgow University. And shops, trains and buses at Partick. So plenty to do and see.
Must take another walk down there - it seems a lot of murals have changed since our last visit, which wasn’t even all that long ago.
ReplyDeleteHi Anabel,
ReplyDeleteThat's why I put this post up this week even though I had several other walks in different areas already prepared cos I thought 'she/they get around a lot in Glasgow so I better get in first now I've got the murals in the camera in case they appear in TGG next time around :o) as you had the Partick gable set of 4 captured and that's very near the railway arches. Plenty left though as nearly every mural has changed down there and everyone has different tastes in what they like.
There are some good artists there. I particularly liked the textures on the top the reading girl was wearing, the Egyptian one (would have loved to have seen the Cleopatra one - especially after watching "Carry on Cleo" last night. Also liked the fashion girl one.
ReplyDeleteNever thought about buildings being built in 'blonde sandstone' but I have to say I like it much better than the standard red sandstone - much more cheerful. A lot of Carlisle's buildings are sandstone but a kind of warm brown...
Cheers Carol,
ReplyDeleteYou can see the Cleo mural as I posted it on here a couple of months ago. May 2022 :o)
That's how quickly the murals change sometimes although I think it had been painted a while ago maybe and I just caught it in time before it disappeared.
Some great murals but I do wonder if they get paid anything for producing them. They must require a lot of time, work, and attention to capture them. If they receive no finance or recognition then I think that their time would be better spent carrying out some paid work.
ReplyDeleteGood question Rosemary, This mural festival takes place every year here with local and international artists arriving to paint murals over a weekend event. My answer is probably not very much unless they make it to Banksy levels of success. The large full gable end commissioned artists in Glasgow probably get a reasonable amount for that one job as it requires scaffolding and serious planning but in most entertainment type events people struggle to make a decent living at it. That includes most writers, (even world famous ones that everyone on the planet has heard of), most pop groups, and most artists. One thing I've noticed is that there seems to be only room for one at a time at the top, in rare cases two, but that's often the limit. Like one well known celebrity street artist in the UK (Banksy) or a metalwork sculpture artist (Andy Scott) or a UK torch ballad singer (Adele) etc in nearly every entertainment field even though the rest might be equally talented.
ReplyDeleteWell if it was on your blog in May, I'll have seen it as I read everything you write!
ReplyDeleteAgree with Rosemary above about payment - I was thinking exactly the same things!