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Remove the Luke Horton Mural on Ecclesall Road and Hold Community Consultation Before Further Horton Mural Commissions

We the undersigned petition the council to Remove the Luke Horton mural on Snuff Mill Lane (off Ecclesall Road), assist in the commissioning of a mural to replace it and to require community consultation before the commissioning of further Luke Horton murals or other public art works.

Luke Horton is a menace on our city who must be stopped. His murals are not only ugly but genuinely insulting to the people of Sheffield.

In this mural, like others, Horton assumes, and conveys to the world that, we are too stupid and uncultured to care if a piece of art is lazy, poorly drawn and deeply unpleasant to look at, as long as we can point at it and say 'I know that thing'. It's demeaning.

Instead of adding to Sheffield culture like so many great street artists have, Horton's art simply regurgitates surface level aspects and stereotypes of our city's culture, cheapening it in the process. Even worse, to make his mural, a genuinely great piece of art by Phlegm was painted over, permantly stealing it from us.

We ask Sheffield Council to remove this mural, assist in commissioning an artist to replace it and to engage in community consultation before allowing or commissioning further Horton murals and other public art pieces.

By rights, the new mural should be done by Phlegm, to replace the piece destroyed. However, it could be done by Faunagraphic, Enso, Peachzz, Fem Sorcell, Kid Acne, Joe Peel, Elle Koziupa or any of the many other great street artists that have helped to make Sheffield a beautiful and interesting place to live.

The people of Sheffield deserve and demand better.

Started by: Shian Harris

This ePetition ran from 12/09/2024 to 24/11/2024 and has now finished.

4 people signed this ePetition.