So here am I, thinking how Banksy hasn’t been around for ages, and isn’t that a shame, and it turned out I just hadn’t managed to hear about his new pieces in London… Duh!
First a false alarm thanks to Hackney Gazette. A few months back they posted a story about how some people thought a piece of stencil art, showing a policeman with a pig's snout, round the back of Kingsland Shopping Centre, was a new Banksy. Yeah right. It’s an OK piece of political art, but lacks the wit of Banksy. It’s also just plonked in the middle of a wall, where his stuff tends to ‘live’ within its environment, with figures appearing to stand on ground, windows positioned in the middle of walls, etc.
First a false alarm thanks to Hackney Gazette. A few months back they posted a story about how some people thought a piece of stencil art, showing a policeman with a pig's snout, round the back of Kingsland Shopping Centre, was a new Banksy. Yeah right. It’s an OK piece of political art, but lacks the wit of Banksy. It’s also just plonked in the middle of a wall, where his stuff tends to ‘live’ within its environment, with figures appearing to stand on ground, windows positioned in the middle of walls, etc.
Meanwhile I was speculating about a fabulous piece down near Old Street. Loving it and wondering who it was by, since it didn’t seem to quite fit anyone I could think of. I never even thought of Banksy! But apparently it’s his… to be fair, it’s not typical. It’s as thought provoking as ever, but, being a memorial piece to another artist, it has a very different mood to much of Banksy’s work. Review and more information here.
And then I hear there’s a new piece on Essex Road too! This time it’s classic Banksy, and a great piece of work poking fun at Tesco. (Again, I've done a review on Qype, including map...)
Apparently there’s also quite a lot of his work down at the Cans Festival, a tunnel full of art down in Central London. I’m going to have to get down there soon…
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