Aerosol artist Jody Thomas finished his portrait of the 16-year-old schoolgirl from Sweden on the side of the 15-meter-high Tobacco Factory building in his home city of Bristol, southwest England, on Wednesday.
“She’s very much in the limelight, very current, very contemporary and
she’s obviously clearly leading a very, very important issue which
affects all of us on the planet,” Thomas told HuffPost.
The mural forms part of the Upfest Summer Editions, which is taking place across Bristol until October. The full Upfest, Europe’s largest live street art festival, usually takes place in the Bedminster and Southville neighborhoods during the final weekend of July each year but is on a break for 2019.
Thomas worked for more than two weeks on his latest piece.
“Around 70% of the wall was painted with water-based paint with an electric spray gun powered by the Tobacco Factories solar cells,” he wrote on Instagram. “I used a minimum of conventional spray paint - around 25 full cans I’ve counted as this was a big consideration given the theme of the wall.”
Only one person who approached him didn’t know who he was depicting.
“They thought it was Bjork,” Thomas told HuffPost, in reference to the Icelandic singer-songwriter famed for her 1995 version of “It’s Oh So Quiet.”
Thomas praised teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg for her “fearless style.”
Steve Hayles, the founder of Upfest, hoped Thomas’ mural would “help to create more conversations on the issue of climate change and its effect on our community.”
“We hope that his work will resonate with the people who come to see it and inspire some to learn more about the issue,” he added.
Thunberg has garnered global attention in recent months for her #FridaysForFuture movement, which asks students to walk out of school on Fridays to raise awareness about the climate crisis.
She told European politicians in April that she wanted them “to panic” about global warming. “I want you to act as if the house was on fire,” she said, later explaining how “when your house is on fire and you want to keep your house from burning to the ground, then that does require some level of panic.”
Thunberg has garnered global attention in recent months for her #FridaysForFuture movement.
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