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Richard Shepherd

Design and Production Supervisor at Alton Towers Resort.

Let's... Circus

Newcastle upon Tyne. They do street performances and also do work shops and circus training.

I like the idea of circus's especially the costume design. I like that the ideas can completely range and there's always something big or wild or fun to create. I like that you need to know what to design for, for example whether the costume is flexible enough for a contortionist or long enough for a stilt walker and then you build on that to make something practical fun and exciting.

NUXUNO XAN

I love how this street art interacts with the natural surroundings as well as the buildings. It makes people see nature as more important, through art which is good because it makes us think about being less selfish to save the environment. Some of the pieces can appear to be more educational and serious where as some are more playful and perhaps humorous, for example seeing humans and trees interact together with the trees growing as hair is quite funny and in one of the cases quite sexy. I think it's a really fun and clever way to educate and aware the public of the environment and makes us think twice about what we are doing. A lot of the paintings are in black and white which makes the leaves stand out more and seem more colorful and posotive compared to the human drawings.