45 Designers// Graffiti & Street Art

Robbo vs Banksy

King Robbo is an English underground graffiti artist who became more widely known following a graffiti war with Banksy.  There had been a previous meeting between Robbo and Banksy in the nineties during which Robbo claimed he slapped Banksy, a claim Banksy denied. A Channel 4 documentary "Graffiti Wars" about the feud was first shown in August 2011. - Wikipedia

Since Banksy made his name with his trademark stencil-style 'guerrilla' art in public spaces - on walls in London, Brighton, Bristol and even on the West Bank barrier separating Israelis and Palestinians - his works have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds.

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Miami Street Art: Epic Shepard Fairey wheat-paste street art work at Dorissa in Miami’s Design District.  http://www.globalgraphica.com/2009/03/22/shepard-fairey-in-miami-dorissa/

On Sunday ROA put up a great new mural on Chance Street in Shoreditch to mark his last night in London before jetting off to paint in Poland.  This piece adds to his growing repoitoire of animals around London and caps off an extended stay that saw him put up one more street piece a few weeks back (see below), but more significantly put together a fantastic installation based gallery show entitled Hypnagogia.  http://streetartlondon.co.uk/

Bricklane:

Shoreditch:

C215 has, in recent days bombarded Brick Lane with new pieces… in a similar vein to his last visit to London in July 2011.   Street Art London went out and hunted a few of their pieces down… there are probably one or two more still out there that we missed….  http://streetartlondon.co.uk/

Swoon uses traditional wood cut  techniques to render her evocative, ephemeral and realistic street art that draws inspiration from an array of historical and folk sources as well as people that she knows or meets on her travels.  http://streetartlondon.co.uk/