Saint Mungo Mural
Towering hyperrealist street mural of a modern-day patron saint with a robin.
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This guide to the Saint Mungo mural on Glasgow's High Street starts with the smallest thing painted on the wall, a robin, and follows it back to a sixth-century monastery at Culross where a boy named Mungo studied under a holy man called Serf. It is an old story with an accusation at its heart, and a city that still recites it in rhyme. Along the way you'll meet the Australian-born street artist Smug and the week his untitled wall was given a name by everyone who shared it.
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