OUGD404: Camille Walala

"... my real pleasure and goal in life is to transform dull and boring spaces and walls and to bring them to life with bold colour and patterns."

Camille Walala produces design with a heavily geometric outcome and brightly coloured. Predominantly famous for textile design, Camille is now doing a lot of work in creating 'show-stopping social spaces.

Her work is influenced by the Memphis Movement, the Ndebele tribe and Optical Art master Vasarely. Her main goal is to have her work putting a smile on people's faces and spread the feeling of energy with the viewers.

The 'itsnice.com' article on Camille Walala 'taking over London one façade at a time' with her murals. It all started when her boyfriend at the time was approached to paint a wall at the back of Whitby Street, but was shortly going to Australia, so Camille took the opportunity instead. Camille has now progressed on to painting an entire 5 storey building on  huge main road in East London.

The emphasis on colour and pattern is something I will take as inspiration from Camille Walala's work and apply it to the knowledge learnt from design principles.