A Jack the Ripper mural – are you serious? How the Eastenders hit back

By Audrey Gillan

 

Glorifying a murderer? … Zabou’s mural of Jack the Ripper above the Duke of Wellington pub. Photograph: Marc Zakian/Alamy

 

A demented face leers through a hole in the wall, his blood-spattered fingers gripping the shattered brickwork as he stares at passersby on the pavement below.

 

This enormous, utterly grim trompe-l’œil image appeared in London’s East End in March – just before lockdown – unsettling many Spitalfields locals.

 

But when people realised that the mural, by street artist Zabou, was supposed to be a modern representation of Jack the Ripper, they were horrified.

 

I, too, had seen the bowler-hatted man – face covered in blood – on the side of the Duke of Wellington pub, just a few streets away from my flat near Brick Lane.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/sep/29/jack-the-ripper-mural-eastenders-hit-back-zabou-snipper-chipper

Not a good look