Sometimes, street art in London can be found in the most unlikely places - on the ground almost under your foot, just above your eye level, or up higher on the rooftops. I had visited east London many times but failed to spot this fisherman on top of the Truman Brewery in Ely's Yard until I visited the yard from the back street due to the gateway being open. The fisherman is the work of Mark Jenkins, and he has created a few exhibitions in London from 2018.
In the spring of 2018, the artist created a similar exhibition on top of ITV's building on Southbank. The exhibition highlighted male suicide and that men were four times as likely as women to commit suicide; eighty-four men a week fall to this. The exhibition included several rows of figures or statues of men with hoodies over their head, standing atop the rooftop. In the summer of the same year, another exhibition by the artist took place in Mayfair, dubbed "BRD SHT" and featured several figures in different poses.
This figure appeared sometime that year and original had a photo frame of a fish on the other end of the fishing line. It sits on top of the Truman Brewery in Ely's Yard.
This artwork is easy to miss unless you happen to approach Ely's Yard from Buxton Street through a gate that is normally closed. From this side of the street, you get an excellent view of the artwork in your sights.
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