Camille Walala

0:23So yeah I'm and I just wanted to say like for years like for so many years of my life I didn't know what to do with myself and what to do as a job.

0:31But the only thing I knew is like I didn't want to do Monday to Friday 9: to5 and then I I just came in London start studying Tex stle for fashion which I really like but it was not quite satisfying enough like I mean doing pattern was great but it was such a small scale I didn't get so much enjoyment out of it straight away but like a few years later.

0:51I was like in a red chur Street or at the back of red chur streets with my ex-boyfriend at the time and he was like a street artist and he was doing like a big painting in the street and this woman came out in the street and just told to him and say oh would you like to paint my the back of my house because it's a bit boring and I just just would like to have something on it and he just say well I'm just going back to cdy so I can't do anything.

1:18But I I was just I was just say yeah I can I just I would be really happy to like do something to your house and originally she said well my husband just died so I will be really happy to have like his face on the wall.

1:28But I mean like my work was definitely I mean I wasn't really not quite confident with that.

1:34So I just say like if you're happy with me to do something else like a bit more geometric and pattern like will work and she said yeah for sure so I kind it was summer time.

1:42So I went away came back on holid day came back after the holidays she didn't even ask me what to do like she just let me do whatever I wanted and she was called Georgina and like she actually like that was the back of her house but the front was like a a calf and B not green so anyway just like it took us two or three days to pain with my friend just for fun and then that was the result of the house and yeah and this woman is just like I just I still keep on going and see her like once in a while and just say hello and here she is with her in front of in front of her new house and yeah she loves it she's still yeah I don't know she's yeah pretty amazing and wish I loved about this project like I just did it for for just for fun I just really like the idea of like street art I just like the idea of street art.

2:26That's something like really colorful and bright something you can just add in the street and from this project I think people start to follow me on Instagram and I got this woman at a shop in Melbourne and some shop that I really like and she contacted me and say oh I actually really I really love you to do something similar in front of my shop so I actually went in Melbourne and did a shop which was inspired from the wall I did for Georgina but that was this time like I yeah it was just like a nice project to do somewhere else completely different than London and since then I've gone yeah especially this year I think I was really busy U did a lot of projects I did a lot of workspace and at this stage is really nice because people contacted you contact me like I would have never never thought about like doing this kind of project.

3:11But it come to me so like I had Facebook coming to me this year and they just wanted me to do their Lobby in London office and I just like the the thing which was great like they just give me like free freedom to do whatever I wanted so I just like connect I mean I just like did some kind of pattern and at the time like I used to do a lot of Street Arts as well. And I used to do a lot of like word in the street where.

3:33I just say kiss more dance more and I just came to them and just I just wanted to do like the connect mod and I was actually really happy like they just bu this concept to put in their W so that was like another part of their Lobby and and after that I went to Amsterdam and I did something for Converse again that was like the their new office and they asked me to do like three I mean they offer me I mean they asking me to do three design and like the two first design I really like and I just that's something I never done before. And then.

4:04I did a third one which is something I've done in the past so I didn't like something really quick in 10 minutes and that's the one to choose and I to start I was quite gutted I I just didn't really want to do that.

4:13But actually I did understand on the in the space I think it. Actually quite makes sense it was really slick and it was some doors like I mean the doors had to open and it's almost like I did the design but when I went there.

4:24I had to change like the dimensions just to make sure like the door like the black line was match matching with the with the rest of the of the of the wall and the way it was designed and some other project that I really love I did this year was a school like it was a school. Actually not far from um like is in doston in Queensbridge road and it was a really quick project I get introduced to the Head teacher. And I just went there and she show me around and that was a kind of a style of the wall in the primary school and everything was quite like like kind of faded like kind of I didn't quite what was like just a lot of fish and weird boats and kind of like brown I don't know it was not obviously for me.

5:05Anyway it was not really inspiring and so they didn't have much budget so like the deal was okay the parents had to paint all of the school or all of the playground white first and then we come and and we and had like a little team with me helping me for three or three or four of us and probably we did that in three or four days it was like actually a quite big space but we changed the old playground to something really bright and colorful and it was quite funny because at the time that was such a quick project.

5:31So I was actually going to school and most of the time when I design like I do a photo of the wall. And I do a mockup on the picture so I was on their and the kids were still at school at the time so like while when they were playing the playground I was like I had a low low table and I was like on my computer trying to kind of like make like a design on the wall and they all were all coming back behind me and just they were telling me well the red triangle I'm not so sure could you do yellow so they all are like a really strong opinion which I really love and I mean but the only thing they didn't like most of the stuff they really like but they didn't like black and white so I was just trying to make them like I mean I was just trying to like prove myself to say no black and white is good because like the color will pop out more so I was yeah trying to convince them a little bit of my taste yeah it was just really nice to see them like working like be in the in the environment like bright colors and also yeah this year again it was like a really annoying things to like have people coming to me and just wanted to collaborate on some different project.

6:31And I had um what was the name caterpillar came to me and they just wanted me to bring some prints on their shoes which is like on the normal classic shoes and they choose a pattern that I actually did at Uni like in 2009 so it was actually really nice because like I remember when I was at Uni my teacher hated these prints and I almost wanted to go and just like go him and just show him like see see yeah like just show him like like a bit of a Revenge and which was nice is also like by doing this really small pattern when they launch the shoe they asking me to do like a big installation. And we had to reproduce the same prints on a bigger scale so which I love with what I'm doing now is like it's great to work on a on computer and create something obviously quite easily done on the computer but then when you have to reproduce it it becomes much more complicated and I just really like the yeah. I just really like the process of working on a big scale again like this was another print that I did again at Uni again the teacher didn't like these prints and I just like reproduced it on a bigger scale and like just I came back from Australia just like last week and I went there again because it's like a fashion brand there which is quite famous there.

7:45But they kind of do a lot of collaboration with with a fashion or more like a artist or print print designer and so they asking me to do like they asking me to do some prints and give them like two or three prints and from my prints they kind of like put them in clothes and it was just really nice to see what they've done with it because it's just like it's almost nice sometime when you do a design but just to have someone obviously got a different knowledge than you do and just use it in their skills and it was just nice to see what they did with my prints and like how they put it like the scale they used on the on the cloths and one of the best project I think I did this year for me was like the building in all Street like I got contact by this girl like follow me on Instagram and she just say oh my husband start to run this building in all Street and would you be interested to to to paint it and that was a text like she sent me she sent me the pictures and say will you be interested to do it I like yes please and like okay and and and so I was yeah let's make it happen and then like we I mean obviously that was such a like a big and it was just a great E Street like I didn't realize how the the position was like an amazing location and originally I it took me a while to send them a design because I really wanted to do something that I like and when I send them the design they actually say oh actually sorry but like we we've been approached by a company who want to put like a massive advertising in front of the in front of the wall like a big like iPhone iPhone pictures and they will pay us £10,000 a month to do the to have this advertising so I said yeah fair enough like let's not do it.

9:25But anyway a few months later the advertising was still not there.

9:29So I just contact them again and say come on let's make this happen what's going on we could do EV if it's for a few months before the advertising comes and so like the deal was they paid for they were paying for like all of the material and they say and I just asked I just wanted to make sure like if I find some volunteer could we have food for lunch and could we could we at prco every night every and that was a deal so like it was amazing because like we was like in a I think he was I came back he was in April I put out on Instagram say I need some unteer I've got this massive dream project that I want to do and I had like 80 people reply which was amazing I just start to choose eight because I didn't really.

10:08Actually know how we're going to do this.

10:10So I designed my I designed on computer like kind of a mockup of how we're going to do it I chose eight people.

10:15And then we just started to paint so it was like at the beginning it was only it was eight eight of us because we only could use ladders but after four or five Ms like that was quite like we couldn't really go further. And we just had this guy like called Mar which is amazing he's normally like a clean he does normally he does upselling and he does cleaning window but we just had him and he was he did all of he did all of the top part of the building and we did and then like after four days it was only three of us. So it was like Martin Julia and then me so like the two of us we were on the on the cherry picker and we were able to do like the five to 10 Mets and Martin was doing the the the 10 to 15 M High I mean he was like that was pretty amazing it was like bucket of paint on each side and he was just like painting like for eight days that was my little crowd of people like yeah they've been amazing that was so nice to have people just come.

11:07And we happy just like to yeah to paint and maybe drink proo every night and then that was the final result after probably eight or 10 days and I think for me it's been like one definitely like the best project I've done so far and it just make me realize what what I really want to do is like try to push and like I don't know I just want to try to find the most ugliest building in London and just try to be able to paint on it. That's actually like the goal I'm having now but like the last the last design the last things I did was like a for design week and I've been approached by the shop to do some product design so I did like some cushion and and and things I've done in the past like Fabric and I collaborate with an ill with someone could do like Furniture but originally that's all I was supposed to do but then then. I thought I actually want to do like a big window and we just push ourself and actually came up with a concept where. I just wanted to do something like a my house so we call it Wala in the house and we just like create this all kind of set design and it was nice I collaborate with a set designer with Jia which helped me to make this kind of like concept where.

12:19I didn't want to be just like KS they were saying oh we want something quite minimal and I like I'm not going to do mini Mo I just I want to do I want to PO I just want to do something funny I just I mean not funny but I just didn't want to take myself seriously I wanted something a bit like yeah kind of like creative and pop and so we kind of create all of this kind of a fake element which obviously we didn't sell there.

12:38But it was just great like a kind of an atmosphere and yeah. I think that's it for this year ♪