Art / Street Art
Mark Stewart remembered in new Stewy stencil
The Pop Group lead singer Mark Stewart is the latest person to be turned into a stencil by Bristol artist Stewy.
Stewart, who died in 2023, rehearsed with the Pop Group in 2019 in the Dockside Studios in Spike Island where the stencil has been painted.
The piece on Hanover Place is just a few yards from Banksy’s The Girl with the Pierced Eardrum mural.
Stewy’s new stencil of Mark Stewart is on the side of a rehearsal studio used by the Pop Group – photo: Martin Booth
Stewy specialises in “psychogeographic life size stencils of animals & outsiders rebels, misfits and obscure icons representing our public history”.
Some of his previous works in Bristol include Tricky, Idles, Sarah Guppy, DJ Derek and Big Jeff; with largescale commissions of Arsenal footballers at the Emirates Stadium and Surrey cricketers at the Oval.
A previous Stewy stencil of Stewart can be found just inside Friendly Records on North Street.
As well as fronting the Pop Group and the Maffia, Bristol Grammar School alumnus Mark Stewart also worked with artists including Massive Attack and Primal Scream – photo: Martin Booth
The Pop Group’s official account on Instagram called the new mural “incredible”.
The Fateful Symmetry, Stewart’s eighth solo album completed shortly before his death, is released on July 11 on Mute
Main photo: Martin Booth
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