Brighton is a city awash with street art. Visitors from around the world see representation of the vibrancy and diversity of the city on walls around BN1 and beyond.
However, so little of it depicts our incredibly successful football club that's adored by so many and has been filling the city with joy, despair and culture for 120+ years. We at Dogma thought it imperative to redress this balance and bring our club to the heart of the city through a mural.
MURAL #1: PRIDE OF THE SOUTH COAST
Designed by Dogma and Iain Budgen (twitter.com/iainbudgen) and painted by Sinna One (sinnaone.com) the mural captures where we are as a club right now and celebrates some of the key players in our most successful period ever.
It only seemed reasonable that our leader, our one club man, our greatest ever player and the figurehead of the most successful period of the club’s history, Brighton’s own Lewis Dunk, to be at the centre of the piece. A player so pivotal to our past, present and our future. The embodiment of our journey from Withdean to Wembley.
Chronically underappreciated in the wider footballing world, we didn’t want this to be replicated in Sussex - his birth place and home. This mural is a permanent reminder of what he and the players alongside him have given us and how much they mean to the community.
He is joined by another local legend Solly March, academy graduate Rob Sanchez, Premier League icon Pascal Groß and a face of the present and future Tariq Lamptey - a broad representation of the players that have got us here and will lead us to Wembley and beyond.
As well as iconising the players the mural incorporates elements of the community the club represents. An abstract representation of the fans is depicted - the supporters who have given so much to get our club to where we are today.
The mural adorns the side of No.11 Elegant Male Grooming on Western Road, a prominent site in Hove and at the center of the community the club represents. No.11 is a Brighton & Hove Albion centric institution. Formerly Mo’s, a regular spot for players past and present to get sharpened up pre match. No.11 graciously handed over their wall to us for this artwork and we hope it will become a site for Brighton fans to flock to.
Our hope is that this is the first of many murals and fan groups and the club continue to celebrate the Albion with public displays around the city and county.
Photography and videography by Andrew Forsyth
Mural location