Vibrant new mural set for Sheffield City Centre

Work is underway to create a huge new mural in the city centre, as Sheffield street artist Peachzz transforms the side of the Cubo building, next to Pound’s Park.

This striking new piece of street art has been commissioned to celebrate Sheffield’s Festival of the Outdoors, which takes place every year throughout the month of March.

As the Festival promotes the strength of Sheffield’s greenspaces and the abundance of nature in close proximity to our city culture, the new mural has been designed as a representation of this for all to see. 

A graduate of Sheffield Hallam University, Peachzz is a street artist that has worked on commissions across the world and built a reputation for applying her expressive style, with hints of realism and bold colour palettes, to large scale murals.  

Her work typically looks at nature and life contrasting with the concrete structures of urban spaces, so this was a perfect match for taking some of the nature visible along our waterways and bringing it to life in the city centre, while also adding some cultural vibrancy to urban greenspace.

The mural has been collaboratively funded by the Festival of the Outdoors, Sheffield City Council's Heart of the City development, and from a hugely appreciated philanthropic donation by Alexis Krachai, President of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce. 

While Sheffield is well-known for its hilly topography, not everyone is aware that the city is built across a unique confluence of five rivers, something which has been acknowledged prominently recently by Sheffield Museum's 'City of Rivers' exhibition at Weston Park. 

As a result, Sheffield is also home to many organisations, community charities and voluntary groups, such as the River Stewardship Company, Sheaf and Porter Rivers Trust, Friends of the Loxley Valley, Friends of the Porter Valley and Don Catchment Rivers Trust, to name but a few, who all proudly help maintain the wildlife of our waterways. 

Having started work on the mural in mid-April, it's hoped that Peachzz will have completed the final piece by the end of the month - April showers permitting.