Interesting Banksy exhibition

Had spotted before that the Andipa Gallery has been busily buying all the Banksys they can get their hands on over the last few years, especially at auctions, and offering them for resale at a frightening markup.
Pleasingly though, it means there’s going to be a show in London starting in a few days time where [...]

A million pound Banksy part 2

Yes, yes, i know, i’m getting sucked into this ridiculous Banksy headline nonsense, but like most media obsessions, it is kinda interesting.
You may remember before how there was talk of the Banksy on Portabello Road being sold for a potential £1m on ebay. Of course, this was just a clever marketing trick on the part [...]

Bonhams contemporary art auction - the results!

So, as mentioned on this blog before, today was the day of the latest round of ‘urban’ art auctions at Bonhams.
Interesting results, lots of Banksys sold, prints as well as originals, which didn’t used to happen much.
Think whoever got this for £82k (plus premium) got a bargain from a Banksy history point of view, this [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]