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This Little Bee located inside the Manchester Craft and Design Centre was created by Manchester Creative and Media Academy.

One Smithfield, a bright new development in the Northern Quarter.

This new mural celebrating Britain’s healthcare heroes during the coronavirus pandemic appeared in May 2020 in Manchester’s Northern Quarter on the wall of Chinese restaurant Sweet Mandarin. The artwork, by the celebrated Manchester-based street artist Akse_p19, shows a medical staff member wearing PPE, with a fitting halo painted overhead. The artist confirmed that the woman in the painting is a real nurse in Manchester. See Image] for a wider view showing the context of the mural in High Street.

This Little Bee located inside the Manchester Craft and Design Centre was created by St Mary's RC Primary School.

This Little Bee located inside the Manchester Craft and Design Centre was created by: St Patrick's RC Primary School St Patrick's RC Primary School have taken inspiration from Timothy Schmalz's sculpture Jesus the Homeless, which was recently erected in Manchester. They wanted to tackle the issue of homelessness in their design, which incorporates the Manchester skyline, words and poems to represent the feelings of someone who is homeless, and bright colours to signify light at the end of the tunnel.

The mural Coronavirus Angel Image on the wall of Chinese restaurant Sweet Mandarin, High Street appeared in May 2020. The artwork, by the Akse_p19, shows a medical staff member wearing PPE, with a fitting halo painted overhead.

Located outside Manchester Craft and Design Centre, Maker Bee was designed and sponsored by Instruct Studio and painted by Tasha Whittle.

Part of the Bee in the City project, sponsored by Sundae Communications, designed and decorated by Lei-Mai LeMaow and sited in Eagle Street.

Located outside Mackie Mayor on Eagle Street, Summer Sundae was created by Lei-Mai LeMaow and sponsored by Sundae who produce high profile press and publicity campaigns for clients in television, film, theatre, design, festivals, venues and events - including Bee in the City.

Stranger Things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things is an American science fiction/horror web television series shown in the UK by Netflix. This giant mural of protagonist Eleven was created by street artist Akse P19 outside the Chinese restaurant Sweet Mandarin on Copperas Street. The work was completed and unveiled at the start of July 2019 to mark the release of season 3 of the Netflix series (https://twitter.com/akse_p19/status/1147183454364286977 Akse on Twitter). Self-taught French Vietnamese artist Akse (pronounced “Axe”) has been based in Manchester since 1997 and has gained a cult following with his huge photo-realistic portraits of pop culture icons in prime locations across the city, many of which went “viral” on social media, with locals and tourists alike rushing to get a shot of his latest creation with which to update their Instagram feeds. His subjects include David Bowie (Image]), Tony Wilson (Image]), Maisie Williams (Image), Gene Wilder (Image]) and Victoria Wood (Image]). One of his recent creations is of a local nurse (Image]) painted during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic; it is a few yards away, just around the corner, on the High Street wall of the Sweet Mandarin.