Entries Tagged as 'Banksy'

February 2, 2008

On the trail of El whatnow?

Thanks to Bristle KRS for spotting this really odd article in today’s Bristol Evening Post. No idea how a foreign journalist visiting a city is news, and it’s pretty much an attempt to use the word Banksy as many times as possible in today’s paper. Quite amusing really, but there are some interesting personal tales [...]

January 28, 2008

A Stokes Croft wall over the years

A while back i was very kindly sent some old graf photos by Mr KRS, who has also been excellent enough to dig in his memory for places and dates for them. There’s loads of good stuff in there, but thought I would start with this one, as i remember it well and was sad [...]

January 27, 2008

Surrey Street, St Pauls

You’d think there would be more down here than there is, just around the corner from Cosies and all, but there’s not much at the moment. This little stencil amused me though. Such an obvious joke, but never actually seen anyone put it up anywhere before.

Hoping to put up some old school Banksy goodness during [...]

January 26, 2008

Pembroke Road, Clifton

It’s odd, there’s actually been lots of graf round clifton over the years, but it tends to be limited to worked out pieces, especially stencils, so you don’t see much, but what you do see can be good. Clifton had a lot of Banksy’s in at one point, but most of them are gone now. [...]

January 24, 2008

Back from the smoke

Was in London today meeting a few friends and acquaintances, some graf related, some not, but saw some stuff that I thought would be of interest.  Found out some other stuff that will be of interest to cover here later in the year, but here’s the present day for now.
Walked past the site of the [...]

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 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 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 [...]