The famous street artist Andy Leek to celebrate the reopening of shops and activities in England for the coming summer months will bring his art to King’s Cross, an area located between the village of Camden and Islington, in the city of London.

The artist has been given carte blanche to colour and revive King’s Cross at will for three months, like a canvas. He will create an evolving series of public artworks that will spread optimism, with the intention of giving the nation some positivity when it comes out of lockdown for good.

Andy Leek’s first on-site installation, entitled This Much, is inspired by the social distancing guidelines that we have all followed in recent months. Spranging up all over the estate, This Much takes the form of 28 outstretched arms with messages of hope and love between them.

“For all these months it’s been two metres of fear, loneliness and danger. I’m going to flip that into two metres of hope, positivity and humour. We all stayed apart to look after each other, to keep not only our loved ones safe but strangers we’ve never met. It’s so easy to take things for granted until we lose them, so it’s nice to hold on to that feeling of how much we missed loved ones as things being to return to some normality.”