Hurvin Anderson's Brixton mural launches 19 November

Who is creating the tenth mural (a large picture painted on a wall) at Brixton Underground station? It is Hurvin Anderson, and his work launches on 19 November 2026. The commission follows Rudy Loewe's The Congregation, from 2025.

Neither page shows the new design. The picture above is an earlier painting, Passenger Opportunity, which both pages mention.

The context

The series began in 2018. It responds to murals painted in Brixton in the 1980s, and to the area's fast growth. Transport for London's release also points to the wider history of mural making. The new work will be the tenth in the series. Four past artists are listed below.

• Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Remain, Thriving, 2018
• Denzil Forrester, Brixton Blue, 2019
• Claudette Johnson, Three Women, 2024
• Rudy Loewe, The Congregation, 2025

Art on the Underground calls Brixton a hub for Black communities over the past 75 years.

An artist of two places

Anderson was born in Birmingham in 1965 to Jamaican parents, and he has spent time in Trinidad. His paintings often reflect diasporic (shaped by life far from a family's first home) life in the United Kingdom. They also look at the Caribbean in the postcolonial (after colonial rule) years. He has lived in Brixton for long periods and has had a studio in Tulse Hill since 1998. He describes his work as the feeling of being in one place while thinking of another.

What to look for

Passenger Opportunity is a painting in 16 panels. Anderson took his cue from Carl Abrahams' murals at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica. Tate Britain gave the painting its United Kingdom debut in his survey. That show ran from 26 March to 23 August 2026 and held around 80 works. It also had a room of paintings never shown before. His mural will stay on view for a year, according to Tate. The survey and the mural both fall in 2026.

I will spend the next week guessing the design, and I will probably guess wrong.

Our view

Brixton gets a painter who knows both its streets and the feeling of elsewhere. We would judge the mural in person at the station after 19 November.

Would you visit?