A GIANT mural has been unveiled in the middle of York by internationally-renowned street artists.

Los Angeles-based Defer and Big Sleeps created a 25ft by 35ft piece at the back of Brown’s department store, in Little Stonegate.

The huge artwork celebrates the opening of the city’s new Art of Protest Gallery and is a chance to re-design the concrete wall of the store which faces the gallery.

After being immersed in the history of York for a few hours, they were inspired to create a work on the historical moments of York’s long history.

Defer said: “Combining different text in layers often using Arabic calligraphy, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Hebrew, Native American, Eastern calligraphy traditions and medieval typographies in a layered style allows me to give viewers glimpses of meaning and hide messages within a striking overall composition, I hope York and its visitors love it as much as we do.”