A new photography zine launching this month turns its lens on Bankside Gallery, one of the few places in the country where painting on walls is done with the council's blessing rather than against it
Painted Over, produced by Hull-based documentary photographer OsgArchive, spent recent weeks tracking the route section by section: Clarence Mill, Shotwell and the riverside walls, Church Street, Grosvenor Mill and the surrounding industrial stretch, and the cluster of walls around Rix, Gate 5 and Bankside itself.
What sets the area apart is the permission behind it. Street art is, almost everywhere else, defined by working outside the law. Along Wincolmlee, Bankside Gallery formally sanctions it - walls are made legally available, and repainted on a rolling basis, sometimes within days of a new piece going up. That turnover means the zine is as much a record of change as it is of the art itself: some of what's photographed will likely already be gone by the time the zine reaches print.
The project sits within OsgArchive's wider documentary practice, which focuses on contemporary northern England, with a particular anchor in Hull and East Yorkshire.
Painted Over is due for release at the end of August 2026, with further details on format and availability to follow.
