Mandela Way T-34 Tank
The Mandela Way T-34 Tank is located on a small piece of scrubland on the corner of Mandela Way and Pages Walk in Bermondsey, London. The tank is a decommissioned Soviet T-34-85 battle tank.
It is a former Czech army tank, that was used in the filming of Richard III (1995). It is now owned by Russell Gray, who lives nearby. The tank was the subject of a work by Cubitt Artists and Aleksandra Mir who painted it pink in 2002.[1] It has since been repainted (and also graffitied). The latest work was to transform the tank's livery into that of a Chicago Taxi Cab, and was undertaken by the Graffiti4hire team.
There are also T-64 and T-72 tanks which have been graffitied in a hippie manner at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev.
The tank appears in PRECISION, a short film made in 48 hours by Andrew James Sykes and Mike Atherton and starring Merica Adams.
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The latest paint work
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The T-34 while it was still pink
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Solo artist She Makes War poses by the tank
[edit] References
- ^ Gibbs, Jonathan (2 November 2003). "Talk of the Town: Pink Tank". The Independent on Sunday. http://www.aleksandramir.info/texts/gibbs.html.
[edit] External links
- Graffiti4hire - The latest graffiti artists commissioned to paint the tank
- The video for the single "Happy Birthday War" by Mitch Benn
- Cubitt Artists - Pink Tank
- More about the tank's history.
- Further details
- Tank picture at Derelict London
Coordinates: 51°29.579′N 000°04.962′W / 51.492983°N 0.0827°W
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