Voices of the World on my Doorstep

In this mural Martene Rouke creates a jigsaw-like image out of  bold colours showing the community connecting with each other alongside “Hello, how are you ?” greetings in some of the many languages spoken in Old Trafford. Languages included in the mural include Romanian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, German, Arabic, French, Kurdish, and Manc of course!

Martene is a graffiti Artist and Architectural Photographer. Her current work is a development of abstract forms inspired directly by graffiti lettering and the urban built environment. She has been involved with graffiti art for almost 20 years and the majority of that time my work primarily focussed on graffiti letter forms and the name as an alter ego. In more recent years she moved on to more abstract forms, but this work is still greatly influenced by the shapes and forms used in graffiti lettering in addition to the urban environment she documents as an architectural photographer.