{"id":761930,"date":"2026-09-06T13:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761930\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T13:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:58:13","slug":"new-ed-sheeran-mural-unveiled-at-ipswichs-thomas-wolsey-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761930\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ed Sheeran mural unveiled at Ipswich&#8217;s Thomas Wolsey pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The painting of global superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/topics\/ed-sheeran\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ed Sheeran<\/a>, created by local artist Maddie Willis, was shown off outside the Thomas Wolsey pub in St Peters Street by landlord Damon Jeffries and the Mayor of Ipswich, Pat Bruce-Browne.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The pub was transformed into The Old Phone for a weekend in May last year which culminated in the announcement of Sheeran&#8217;s most recent album Play, and three hometown gigs at his beloved Portman Road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Opening of new ed sheeran mural at Ipswich pub\"\/>The Mayor of Ipswich, Pat Bruce-Browne, Maddie Willis and Damon Jeffrey, landlord of the Thomas Wolsey (Image: Lucy Taylor)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Pat Bruce-Browne, the Mayor of Ipswich said: &#8220;It&#8217;s wonderful to be here today to open this amazing mural of Ed Sheeran from a local artist named Maddie. It&#8217;s always good to have our little, you know Mr Ed Sheeran, to help us with our bid to become the next city of culture.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Opening of new ed sheeran mural at Ipswich pub\"\/>Maddie Willis, the artist behind the mural (Image: Lucy Taylor)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;So let&#8217;s hope that everyone comes and visits this mural, spend some money in the bar, and just make sure we show Ipswich to be the wonderful place as it is.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The artist behind the work, Maddie Willis said: &#8220;It&#8217;s basically just to commemorate when Ed Sheeran played here, which was obviously a very very special event. It has been such a pleasure to do. Obviously, the last few days painting it have been so fun and sort of talking to everyone who passed as well.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Damon Jeffrey said: &#8220;We are absolutely over the moon with the mural that&#8217;s honouring. It&#8217;s honouring Ed, and it&#8217;s honouring when Ed played here at the Thomas Wolsey, the artist is amazing, local, and we get we&#8217;re just so so pleased.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The painting of global superstar Ed Sheeran, created by local artist Maddie Willis, was shown off outside the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-761930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}