ELEVATE YOUR ENVIRONMENT WITH
BOTANICAL VANDALS MURALS
Botanical Vandals is the muralist wing of Graft, consisting of husband and wife team Rob and Sophie Wheeler.
Sophie and Rob work together, and with communities and clients, to create beautiful murals which reflect and uplift their surroundings.
Their unique style is inspired by the great designers of the Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, weaving together elements of local flora, fauna, history and cultural heritage into an ornate, organic pattern, while staying true to their graffiti heritage through their use of the spraycan.
Rob and Sophie specialise in community mural projects which engage local people of all ages and abilities, enabling communities to feel part of the project, contribute their ideas and stories, and create their own pieces of artwork to keep.
They are also available for private commissions and public realm projects, including working in different media such as thermoplastic floor art.
See below for examples of their work, and get in touch if you would like to find out more about working with Botanical Vandals.
MURALS GALLERY
Playground mural celebrating the new sensory garden at an inner-city primary school
Mural commissioned by a primary school for their library bus, reflecting flora and fauna of the school site and ingredients of local recipes.
A physics-inspired, 50m-long mural in three parts. The designs were informed by consultation with the department, as well as the history of the building, and the colour scheme was based on the primary and secondary colours of light.
We worked with the children and staff at St Paul's Nursery School, and painted two murals in the nursery garden featuring local trees.
Mural at Sea Mills Railway Station, the culmination of a community art project celebrating the history, heritage, flora and fauna of the Sea Mills garden suburb.
A project to brighten up a neglected viaduct in Easton, Bristol. Our pillar responded to the brief 'bringing communities together and supporting diversity and inclusion', and wove together elements of pattern design from the many cultures of the area.
Commission from Bristol Museums to create artworks for the temporarily boarded up windows - we took inspiration from the heritage wallpaper in the Museum's Picture Room, reinventing it with spraypaint, bright colours and leaves and seeds from the trees on Blaise Estate.
Commission from Bristol Museums to create artworks for the temporarily boarded up windows - we took inspiration from the heritage wallpaper in the Museum's Picture Room, reinventing it with spraypaint, bright colours and leaves and seeds from the trees on Blaise Estate.
A commission from The Architecture Centre to design and paint a series of murals in our home community of St Paul's, Bristol. The designs were inspired by three winning recipes from a community 'soul food' competition, and feature ingredients along with local plant life.
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