The Birmingham work is harmless, and with its bench and homeless occupant, it has a useful physicality: the passers-by are prompted to engage with real wood, real flesh-and-blood – and they did. He has poked fun at the Venice Biennale, too (not necessarily such a bad thing) with a satirical mural that he left in a different part of town. In October, he stole headlines during Frieze London when Devolved Parliament – a painting devoid of artistic or ethical merit – sold for £9.9 million. (A man, according to reports, was seen shouting: “Shall I tag it?”) The Jewellery Quarter Business Improvement District, with one eye on repeat offenders and another on the bottom line, will be employing “round-the-clock” security to avoid a repeat. The reindeer sit behind perspex now.īanksy has had a busy year. One reindeer gained a red nose, spray-painted fuzzily on. Soon, local artists – in their way – engaged. The artist filmed a homeless man, “Ryan”, settling down in the winter chill, and thanked passers-by in the Jewellery Quarter for the generosity they quickly showed. His latest work is a pair of stencilled reindeer, hooked up in a trompe l’oeil trick to an actual wooden bench. Styled by the Sunday Times as “the rat who gave birth to Banksy”, his social and political works have been a major influence on many of today’s ‘guerrilla art’ movements.Banksy is back again, this time in Birmingham. Hypnagogia is a two-space exhibition, featuring installation work and originals on found objects, as well as outdoor work across east London.īorn in 1951, Parisian artist Blek Le Rat is widely considered the grand master of street and the originator of stencil graffiti. ROA has become famous for painting animals on derelict buildings, shutters and walls all over the world and was also included in The Museum of Contemporary Arts’ exhibition ' Art In The Streets' in LA. The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QLīelgium artist ROA is renowned for his unique portrayal of large-scale urban wildlife, disquietly cohabiting city streets, hand painted in his distinctive black and white style.
Presented by NO way and Rudi Khalastchi, Crazy Eye Hotel is a large scale, site specific installation of mixed media offering viewers the chance to explore the vitality and spirit of Israeli street art.
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