Spring is sprung and Banksy welcomes the freshest season with some fresh street art. Last Spring it was Valentines Day Mascara in Southend, this year a hibernating tree bursts into life with a vigorous new canopy of green foliage thanks to a gardener armed with a garden sprayer. It can be interpreted new life, new Read More
Banksy is in the news again, who’d have thought? For the benefit of anyone dwelling beneath something hard and rock like, an image of three drone missiles appeared on a STOP sign at a road junction in Peckham, South London, acknowledged as a genuine Banksy on Banksy’s instagram. What made this Banksy particularly newsworthy was Read More
The ground floor of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow was been taken over by a huge retrospective of some of Banksy’s greatest hits, more than 75 pieces in total. Unfortunately health reasons meant I could not make the exhibition until the last week but here for the benefit of all who haven’t had Read More
“It’s A Brum Ting” has been the signature tune of the past fortnight as Birmingham hosted the Commonwealth Games. So what is it about Birmingham, why is it so great? Armed with a cheap cheap day return rail ticket I set out several weeks back to discover if Birmingham Street Art is what Goldie, Trevor Read More
Banksy, the best known living artist, is an enigma with a perverse attitude to celebrity status and personal information. In an age where non-entities share every plate of food, change of eyeshadow and ill-advised swimwear hot, this is this is a major anomaly. Anonymity and secrecy fuels curiosity so there have been many books about Read More
The Great Banksy Spraycation resulted in what we now know were originally 10 new street art pieces in East Anglia. Early last week I headed off in a fever of excitement to explore the locations, the resulting photos and insights can be seen HERE. A couple of the artworks proved rather tricky to find, one Read More
East Anglia has in the past week or so became home to a spectacular trove of Banksy street art. Banksy created a grand total of 10 new pieces of street art and to put this in context, there were only 5 outdoor Banksy artworks at his own Dismaland group show in 2015! With my son Read More
About Banksy….. It has been an exciting couple of weeks since the last newsletter. Huge amounts of great new art have been created; artists have led the political agenda; Banksy influenced art is popular as always and street art tours are up and running! Butterfly Man homage to Banksy Among many of Banksy’s witty and Read More
Banksy – The London Chronicle is THE Banksy street art virtual tour. We examine Banksy’s London street art career from 2000 onwards using our huge library of exclusive photographs of Banksy street art. Online virtual tour via Zoom, no travel required! See “What is a virtual street art tour” Current bookable dates are shown lower down Read More
