Aberdeen’s Union Plaza gets street art treatment

0 The installation at the office building has been created by Lithuanian-born Ernest Zacharevic One of Aberdeen’s most prominent office buildings has been given a street art makeover.

Union Plaza, which is home to, among others, law firm Burness Paull and Aberdeen Standard Investments, was selected as a key site in this year’s Nuart Festival.

The installation at the city centre office building has been created by Lithuanianborn Ernest Zacharevic, best known for carving a giant SOS message into an Indonesian palm oil plantation to draw attention to the damage done by deforestation earlier this year.

Taking over the entire east side of Union Plaza, the installation spans features a young boy climbing brickwork, overseen from above by seagulls.

The theme for this year’s festival revolves around the concept “A Revolution of the Ordinary” investigating the parallel world of non-institutional art and culture through a program of talks and debates, film screenings, walking tours and workshops. Nuart was started in 2003 in Stavanger, Norway.