National Theatre Wheels Resident Artist - Cart Festival WDS

MY MOBILE GRAFFITI T-SHIRT STORE


For the last few weeks I have been working on a project for the World Stage Design Festival. Designing and making my own cart from salvaged and recycled wood and a bed post found at a building site skip.

I started off with a basic frame with two bicycle wheels.  My idea was to have a mobile desk so I would be able to display my methods of creating graffiti on T-shirts whilst out on the streets and using the main base as a storage unit for spray cans and stencils.

Thanks to Benjamin Flores, a first year BA Theatre Design student at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.  Without his help I would not have been able to finish the cart.  It took just over a week to build and a day to paint.

The outer shell needed to resemble or reflect my style of artwork showing my flare for hip hip culture.  Using spray paint to run all the way down the body giving the effect of movement and mess as if the portable gallery is in use.

This experience has helped me realise that I could be selling my designs all year round so, I've decided to open up a stall at Cardiff CFQ.  Cardiff Fashion Quarter is a venue that's run and organised by local creatives on Womanby Street, Cardiff.

Thanks to Fiona Watt for letting me keep the cart, I have plans to use it next summer at Festivals and

continued use around town.

All it needs now is a big sound system, lights, a microwave, a kettle and spinning wheel trims. to see more of my work look @ creating a Biggy Smalls T-shirt at the 2000 trees Festival 2013 www.kylelegall.com



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Comment by Fiona Watt on September 26, 2013 at 23:38

Thanks Kyle for your contribution and for this great post. In creating the street cart project, it was always my intention that as many carts as possible would go on to lead new lives in and around Cardiff as part of new enterprises and community projects - so look out for them. Riverside Community Garden Project who used their cart to promote the Transplantable Living Room project that they were part of at WSD, have adopted two further carts which they will use to promote their work at farmers markets etc, as well as for potting tables, and working with children, the Anne Frank Experience and Headstrong Theatrical Services ( both young companies) will use theirs for touring and promotional purposes, as will Theatr Gen and an additional two carts have been adopted by Theatr Iolo to take into schools. Big thanks also to Gemma Martin who helped us both with cart building and the facilitation of The Market Place and to all those who used carts at the event to test out new ideas and projects over shorter spaces of time.

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