Mills to the Hills, created by London-born artist Roids, is a vast and hypnotic piece of street art created especially for a can’t-miss location in the centre of Bradford. Taking inspiration both from the city’s rich industrial history and from the soaring countryside around it, the work can be seen day and night on the walls outside The Broadway.

Mills to the Hills is part of BD: Walls, a collection of new street art commissioned by Bradford 2025 for walls across Bradford District – paying vibrant tribute to our heritage while celebrating our dynamic street art culture.

Born in London in 1982, (Roids) is a British visual artist who engages in a range of creative practices informed by his graffiti background. Among them painting, analog typographic design, mural painting, and sculpture.

Roids’ work intersects a deeply studied approach to form, and dimensionality, with an aesthetic charge emanating from the environmental exploration of his graffiti practice, mining from urban history, personal experience, and the nuances of arts connected crafts. Known for his innovation and influence within the conventions of graffiti, Roids’ work is constantly evolving. A measure of graffiti’s inherent competitiveness and his own unique investigation into the stylisation and abstraction of lettering.