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Parking No Parking

42 images Created 30 Apr 2009

Parking No Parking is an idea still in progress.

Alongside a Photoshelter series about Britain's recession (called Bust - The Art of Recession, also unfinished), this is a collection of roadside clues about the places that motorists are encouraged to, or warned away from, leaving their vehicles.

What I like is the unkempt, the individual and the dereliction of gates and doorways where business or home-owners feel the need to leave curt and officiously hand-painted notices in an otherwise world of uniformity where the printed sign and stencil rule.

But there are also the formal parallels of parking bays that criss-cross our town centres that would otherwise been regarded as wastelands, making us keep a tidy order to our state-controlled urban lives.

By exploring these two extremes of era and modernity, I hope to produce a group that engage and interest.

A blog story about this project is at:
http://wp.me/p3fbj-1v

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  • A notice not to park in front of a scrap metal yard, with a threat of clamping, has been painted on to gates in a Bristol industrial wasteland.
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  • Sign on lamp post telling HGV drivers to Park Tidy in an overnight lorry park on the A126 in industrial Grays, Thames Gateway
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  • A No Parking sign painted on to a garage door tells car drivers this entrance is in constant use 24/7 in Loughborough Junction, South London..
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  • A car has been parked on cobbles by a hand-painted sign that urges no parking at the kerbside in a quiet street near Bradford city centre, Yorkshire.
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  • Two cars have been parked beneath the words No Parking which have been painted by hand on industrial bricks of a wall in a quiet street off Lumb Lane near Bradford city centre, Yorkshire. Above the message in the window is both Kashmiri and English writing for a mis-spelled business called Kashmir Catring Bradford.
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  • On a rusting metal doorway, a notice urging drivers not to park their vehicle at this constantly-used business entrance on the Isle of Dogs, near Canary Wharf, London.
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  • On a house's wooden garage gates the words Gate in Use have been painted by hand in white on wooden gates in a quiet suburban London street.
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  • No Parking request between arrows and painted on construction hoarding in south London.
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  • A makeshift sign on a gate with graffiti tells car drivers not to park infront of a house's driveway in Sydenham, South London.
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  • A makeshift sign on a house's gate with graffiti tells car drivers `No Parking in use' 24/7 off Camden High Street.
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  • A fading and peeling sign that seen better days, still urges motorists not to park in front of this contantly-used garage entrance in South London, England.
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  • Peeling artwork from a motor business, location for the 2012 Olympic Aquatic Centre, Carpenters Road, Stratford, London England.
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  • Corrugated iron gates padlocked and chained up to prevent trespassers.
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  • A hand-painted No Parking notice on a garage's gates under railway arches in south London.
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  • A hand-painted No Parking Please notice on a garage's gates under railway arches in south London.
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  • On brick and metal shutters, the words No Parking and Please have been painted by hand in blue against a background stripe of yellow on a wall in a quiet street near Bradford city centre, Yorkshire. A modern Monday to Saturday 8am to 6pm parking zone sign is also a vertical line that is central to the picture.
    no_parking20-08-05-2009.jpg
  • The words "keeep (mis-spelled) clear .. door in constant use" has been painted by hand on an entrance to a now derelict building that is soon to be developed into new apartments. Peeled blue gates has been rubbed away to reveal the old wood in the once-industrial Tetley Street near Bradford city centre, Yorkshire.
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  • A polite Please No Parking sign painted on to a wooden gate  door tells car drivers this entrance is in constant use 24/7 in Brixton, South London..
    no_parking01-01-02-2010.jpg
  • A hand-painted No Parking notice on derelict shutters near 2012 Olympic Park site.
    2012_stratford15-08-03-2012.jpg
  • A notice not to park in front of a construction site, has been painted on to gates in South London.
    no_parking01-26-10-2009.jpg
  • On a house's wooden garage gates the words No Parking have been painted by hand in white on wooden gates in a quiet suburban London street.
    no_parking01-18-10-2009.jpg
  • A request to move this vehicle has been mis-spelled in sprayed aerosol on the road's surface in a residential London street
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  • The words Do Not Park have been painted roughly on a kerbside street corner in the London borough of Lambeth, England.
    no_parking09-22-04-2009.jpg
  • Letting coloured in yellow painted on a wall says Car Park Open, in Canning Town, Newham, East London..
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  • Bright lights illuminate a French ADA car rental kiosk in an empty car park alongside the N186 motorway in southern Paris.
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