The Mandela Way T-34 Tank is located on a small piece of scrubland on the corner of Mandela Way and Pages Walk in Bermondsey, London. The tank is a decommissioned Soviet T-34-85 battle tank.
It is a former Czech army tank, that was used in the filming of Richard III (1995). It is now owned by Russell Gray, who lives nearby. The tank was the subject of a work by Cubitt Artists and Aleksandra Mir who painted it pink in 2002.[1] It has since been repainted (and also graffitied). The latest work was to transform the tank's livery into that of a Chicago Taxi Cab, and was undertaken by the Graffiti4hire team.
There are also T-64 and T-72 tanks which have been graffitied in a hippie manner at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev.
The tank appears in PRECISION, a short film made in 48 hours by Andrew James Sykes and Mike Atherton and starring Merica Adams.
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