Using Public Art To Transform Cities

Artist Lesley Perkes is working on transforming Johannesburg through art that both inspires and also actually improves the urban landscape. We tend to think of public art as mere adornment, something that’s nice to look at. But, for Lesley Perkes, it is more than that: it’s about firing people’s imagination, and laying down a marker to pessimists who say nothing ever changes, or can change.

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