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Artist News
Crowdfunding campaign for Brixton Bowie memorial launches
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 22 February 2017
Following on from the successful crowdfunding of a David Bowie statue in Aylesbury, Brixton’s now having a go. Those London types want almost ten times as much though, aiming to raise £990,000.
While Aylesbury is going for the classic ‘statue of the person being memorialised’ model, Brixton is planning to erect a 3D rendering of the lightning bolt from the ‘Aladdin Sane’ album. Three stories high, and intended to look like it has just fallen to Earth, it will stand next to artist Jimmy C’s ‘Aladdin Sane’ mural, to which many fans flocked immediately after Bowie’s death.
The team working on the proposed Brixton memorial have worked with David Bowie’s reps in London and New York, as well as Lambeth Council, in bringing the project to this stage. You have until 21 Mar to throw some money at it, via the crowdfunding page here. And you can watch a video explaining the thinking, and engineering, behind the statue here:
