A mural celebrating the life of The Fall frontman Mark E Smith has been unveiled in his home city.<\/p>\n
The large-scale ceramic and glass artwork, created by public artist Mark Kennedy, has been installed on the side of a building at the junction of Lower Broughton Road and Great Clowes Street in Salford.<\/p>\n
Born in Broughton, Smith was the founder and frontman of the influential post-punk band. Renowned for his distinctive voice and acerbic lyrics, he became an influential figure in British alternative music, releasing more than 30 albums and inspiring generations of artists.<\/p>\n
He died in January 2018.<\/p>\n
The mural was created by artist Mark Kennedy, who has spent more than three decades delivering major public art projects across Greater Manchester and described Smith as a “great friend”.<\/p>\n
The image is based on a photograph Kennedy took while the pair were walking through Heaton Park, when Smith held a buttercup beneath his chin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mural celebrating the life of The Fall frontman Mark E Smith has been unveiled in his home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804451","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=804451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}