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Braidley Road Mural

Braidley Road Mural

In 2024, students from Arts University Bournemouth (AUB)'s BA (Hons) Illustration and BA (Hons) Graphic Design courses worked over five weeks on a mural on the Braidley Road flyover in Bournemouth. The piece is the largest public mural in Dorset.

In addition to the two courses, this project was part of a collaboration with BCP Council, LUSH and Studio Studio.

Featured creatives

With the intention of celebrating the Creatives of Dorset, the Braidley Road Mural showcases 14 creatives with connections to Bournemouth and the wider area.

Discover the stories of each one below.

Part of a mural on a flyover pillar wall, primarily green quadrangle with a pink diamond and a brown top hat in the centre. Text appears along the top and bottom reading "Philosophies for women", and "Of women" along either side.

Millie Bobby Brown

Millie Bobby Brown is a British actress, who spent her early childhood in Bournemouth. She gained...

Part of a mural on a flyover pillar wall. A cat with heart-shaped spots lies on a stair case, which leads up to a multicoloured background and a woman's portrait in a frame on it. The word "Icon" appears at the top.

Twinks Burnett

Twinks Burnett is a fashion stylist, creative director and accessories designer who studied BA (Hons) Fashion at AUB...

Part of a mural on a flyover pillar wall; an assortment of road signs and the word "RADICAL". An illustration of a woman wearing a hi-vis jacket is shown on the right.

Margaret Calvert

Margaret Calvert is a British typographer, graphic designer and Honorary Fellow of AUB who, with colleague Jock Kinneir...

Part of a mural on a flyover pillar wall. Three images showing a pair of hands with yellow star-like shapes, then the same hands opening to release a yellow bird, and the yellow bird flying away.

Elisabeth Frink

Dame Elisabeth Frink was an English sculptor and printmaker who lived and worked in Woolland, a village in North Dorset. Her obituary...

Part of a mural on a flyover pillar wall, depicting a woman sitting, with emphasis on her boots, with a big moon on a green background, and silhouettes of three birds and a church. Text reading "take me back to beautiful England" appears in a handwritten style near the top.

PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey is an English singer-songwriter. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she's also proficient in a wide...

Primarily red mural with white stars and shapes, and illustrations of three people. Text reading "Power in detail" appears off the centre.

Adama Jalloh

Adama Jalloh is a British photographer of Sierra Leonean heritage whose work has been exhibited at Tate Modern and...

Part of a mural on a flyover pillar wall. Part of a horse in silhouette against a red and pink background. A smaller illustration of a woman with a black horse is show in a purple and white circle in the left corner.

Lucy Kemp Welch

Lucy Kemp Welch was an illustrator and art educator who specialised in painting horses, including Anna Sewell's Black Beauty...

Part of a mural on a flyover pillar wall. A line of illustrated green people walking in a line on a pink background. The word "OH" is under each of them.

Amaka Osakwe

Amaka Osakwe is a Nigerian fashion designer and creator of the African-based fashion label, Maki Oh, who has led her globally...

Marguerite Radclyffe Hall

Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was an English poet and author born in Bournemouth and best known for the novel 'The Well of Loneliness'...

Elisabeth Scott

Elisabeth Scott was a British architect who designed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Opened in 1932, this was the first...

Part of a mural on a flyover pillar wall. Primarily black background featuring red and green abstract imagery and text reading "This is where I can be the real me" and "At the end of the day we are all artists".

Aya Suzuki

Aya Suzuki is a Japanese and British animator, layout and story artist and AUB graduate. She has worked on projects such as...

Part of a mural on a flyover pillar, depicting a smiling man in a black circle. A yellow box to the left contains text reading "Works in both directions" with some letters inverted.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer and AUB graduate. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his...

Part of a mural on a flyover pillar wall. Illustration of a man with his hand on a woman's shoulder; the woman is holding a book in her arms. Three birds are flying in the left corner with some words underneath, while several books are scattered on the right.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner was an LGBTQ+ novelist, poet and musicologist lived and worked in Maiden Newton, Dorset with her...

Edgar Wright

Edgar Wright is an English film and television director and writer. He is most famous for his fast-paced and satirical work, and...

Project partners

Part of a mural on a flyover pillar wall; colourful illustration of an abstract red and pink object with text reading "this is AUB" on it. Underneath, an eye-shaped object with a yellow and purple wavy stream coming out of it.

Arts University Bournemouth

Arts University Bournemouth is a specialist arts university that has been nurturing creativity since 1883. A community of artists...

Part of a mural on a flyover pillar wall. Primarily red and pink showing illustrations of two people drawing, as well as a bath bomb split in half and various items of text.

Lush

Lush is a global cosmetics brand famous for its colourful and cruelty-free hand-made cosmetics, which opened its first shop on...

Artists

The Braidley Road Mural comprised the work and talents of 18 AUB students on our BA (Hons) Illustration and BA (Hons) Graphic Design courses, as well as Bridie Cheeseman and Jake Williams from Studio Studio, who directed the project.

Artist	Course	Designs
Denisa Ailenei	BA (Hons) Illustration	Edgar Wright
Maisie Barr	BA (Hons) Illustration	Twinks Burnett
Amelia Blantern	BA (Hons) Graphic Design	Amaka Osakwe, Aya Suzuki
Melody Ching	BA (Hons) Graphic Design	Adama Jalloh, Wolfgang Tillmans
Gracie-May Davison	BA (Hons) Illustration	Millie Bobby Brown
Lily Fairbank	BA (Hons) Illustration	Elisabeth Scott
Tom Filer	BA (Hons) Illustration	Margaret Calvert
Chiara Gambarin	BA (Hons) Illustration	Elisabeth Frink, Lucy Kemp Welch
Sophie Hardyman	BA (Hons) Illustration	PJ Harvey
Rebecca Miller	BA (Hons) Graphic Design	PJ Harvey
Caitlin Newlove	BA (Hons) Illustration	Adama Jalloh, Wolfgang Tillmans
Karla Noren	BA (Hons) Graphic Design	Millie Bobby Brown, Elisabeth Frank, Lucy Kemp Welch
Will Olney	BA (Hons) Illustration	Aya Suzuki
Gabrielle Parker	BA (Hons) Illustration	Amaka Osakwe
Gergana Sarieva	BA (Hons) Graphic Design	Margaret Calvert
Abbie Stiller	BA (Hons) Illustration	Sylvia Townsend Warner
Heidi Teremetz	BA (Hons) Illustration	Marguerite Radclyffe Hall
Ethan Weinert	BA (Hons) Graphic Design	Twinks Burnett