Entries from January 2008

January 20, 2008

Another Banksy wall sells

Not really made the news this one, but another Banksy on a wall has just sold on ebay. This time though, it’s not any old wall, but a piece of the Israeli security or segregation wall, depending on your point of view.

Weighing in at an impressive 1500kg, it’s not the easiest piece to hang on [...]

January 19, 2008

Graffle night review

So tonight was the Graffle draw night, and they’d certainly done well in the final choice of venue! Posh as you like, and a window outside had pleasingly been expertly decorated by Mr Jago. My camera did two shots of this, not sure which is better to be honest, so here’s the flash and non [...]

January 18, 2008

Graffle Night!

Just a reminder that the excellent Graffle is tonight down at the Mercure Holland House Hotel and Spa, which is here. Tickets will still be available, as i understand it, up until the draw, but get there early i guess, not least to make it easier for the organisers!
There will also be more bidding for [...]

January 17, 2008

Live auditioning for this blog?

Something weird happened to me today, kind of amusing too. Was walking along Park Row, traffic was crawling along on the road, stopping every now and again, nothing unusual for Bristol. Then suddenly, when the traffic stopped, the guy walking in front of me stepped out in the road, drew his tag in the dirt [...]

January 17, 2008

How to spot a genuine Banksy

Not believing everything in this article would be a good start, although it’salong the right lines in places.
As most people know, you can get authentic unsigned Banksy prints all over the place, and he’s done more than one interview. Somewhere I think I’ve still got an interview with him from Venue back in the day, [...]

January 16, 2008

Venue comment on tagging

Bristol what’s on mag Venue always has a section at the back called ‘i saw you’, where people write in and lament not having spoken to that chap or chapess they admired from afar at a club night or whatever. Had it on good authority that when they started they were mostly made up by [...]

January 15, 2008

Pro-cathedral Lane, Bristol - Part 2

So, as promised, here’s the second half of the graf stuffed museum like alley of Pro-cathedral lane!
A transformers style robot with the legend ’steal’. There were a few pieces with ’steal’ on around back in about 2002 or thereabouts, remember one down by the council house at the bottom of park street, long gone now [...]

January 14, 2008

That ‘million pound’ Banksy

Well, hardly a surprise, but the Portobello Road Banksy didn’t make the seven figure sum the media was hoping for. Bidding closed just now, and the final price (subject to false bids and the like) was
This story’s been doing the rounds as well, apparently the ‘Rivington Street Rat’ Banksy in London has been bought for [...]

January 13, 2008

Graffle enters the final stretch…

Seems like only yesterday this was all starting off, but this coming friday will see the final draw of ‘Graffle’, Bristol’s graffiti raffle.
The lineup of art being raffled was impressive enough when this thing started, but since then it’s just grown and grown. The addition of a studio proof of Banksy’s ‘Stop and Search’ print [...]

January 12, 2008

The What Collective

I’m aware that occasionally on this blog i get randomly excited about work by the What Collective, and many of you reading from outside Bristol won’t know much about them.
So here’s a video i found on Youtube, oddly describing the collective as a duo, but that’s TV i guess. For me, they were one of [...]