Prince by Akse P19, Manchester - May 2016

Late May 2016 and the Manchester Cities of Hope Festival was in full swing, Akse P19 being pretty much the street artist in resident in Manchester's Northern Quarter did his own thing.

Following on from the fantastic David Bowie artwork we stumbled upon Akse P19 hard at work on his tribute to Prince.

Here was the work in progress, please visit to see the finished art on the corner of Tib Street and Thomas Street.

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Stevenson Square, Manchester - July 2013

A wander to Stevenson Square, Manchester to view the Manchester Outhouse Project again to see the new art.

Sadly the Summer weather came to an end and to put it simply, I was a drowned rat walking like the Tin Man as walked thru Ancoats.



At this point I should add that all the pictures on this entry are basically salvaged. Shooting with my Pentax K20D in RAW I'd never had had any issues until this weekend - photos taken, photos lost - the K20D would seem to have a firmware issue and I'd never updated the firmware - saying that I've been using the camera for over 12 months without issue.

After wasting hours trying to recover the photos with various recovery software I found Stellar Photo Recovery would pull them back in PEF, so I registered the software and sadly the newer version didn't find the missing photo files as PEF but it would pull the files back in a NEF files format, my DXO software wouldn't open the files unless I upgraded to Elite DXO. Thankfully Adobe have a file converter that converted the NEF files to DNG, which I could then open - but not as RAW files. So here we go, whats left of the photos.

So on with the new paint

 
















Sadly a few shots missing.

Time for some urbex.....

Stevenson Square, Manchester - April 2013

Another return trip to Manchester, for the next chapter in the Outhouse Project of Stevenson Square, Manchester.

 

 

 

 

 






Bit of a mad dash, an hour to spare before I fled the country I wandered up to a strangely very quiet Northern Quarter, even for a Sunday the streets where empty, apart from some scaffolders busily doing what scaffolders do.


 





Until the next visit...

Stevenson Square, Manchester - September 2012

Bit of a pet project this one.

Stevenson Square, Manchester - home of the Outhouse Project

Well its Heritage Weekend, so a crafty plot to take the kids to the Greater Manchester Police Museum means us jumping off the tram at Shude Hill and a short walk thru the Northern Quarter.

First off  a piece by Replete



Dan Birkbeck





Mooty


 






Akse - sadly someone had defaced this one.




Finally a work in progress, artist Akse - with a bit of Amy Winehouse.

 




 


A last minute spot,  a post up by Kiwie, interesting given this Latvian artist had recently been in North Wales painting the Duke of Lancaster

 


To be continued....

Stevenson Square, Manchester - April 2012

A return visit to my haunt of Stevenson Square, Manchester and the Northern Quarter.

As part of the Manchester Outhouse Project the art had changed once again and off I shot to Manchester on a damp Sunday afternoon to take in the sights.

- Urban Spaceman was convalescing with a bad dose of Manflu, payback for trying to escape the rather wet weather with yet another holiday in some despot country which sun and cheap beer.
 




















Off for a quick mooch round the side streets of the Northern Quarter to see what wonders I could find...

I think this one is a Ting Tong Chang ???



Spotted a few of these in the back streets



 

 


Instead of the usual back street routes I normally take I decided to have a wander up Tib Lane into Foundry Lane and found some cracking artwork.





 

















Finally a quick wander down Oldham Street on the way back to the train station.



And it's Good Night from me with a picture of Anthony H. Wilson, the legend that forever is Mr Manchester