Dónal twaskz:
…any clue about who is behind the Banksy-like graffiti in Achill?
UPDATE: It seems Banksy (or some class of a Banksy) was on the island over the weekend and this is one of at least three stencils.
Dónal twaskz:
…any clue about who is behind the Banksy-like graffiti in Achill?
UPDATE: It seems Banksy (or some class of a Banksy) was on the island over the weekend and this is one of at least three stencils.
Pearl Kelly looking at four of Banksy’s works on exhibit and for sale at the opening of Art Source
This morning.
RDS Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Via Art Source
The largest collection of Banksy’s work exhibited on public show in Ireland opened today at Ireland’s premier art fair Art Source, which runs until Sunday at the RDS.
Gormleys Fine Art are showing screen prints by the anonymous British-based artist and political activist whose original piece Devolved Parliament recently sold for €10.9m.
Twelve Banksy pieces will be on display ranging from €10,850 for I Fought The Law to an unsigned print of Girl With A Balloon valued at €120,000, along with works by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst.
Pic: Robbie Reynolds
A new work appeared this week at Port Talbot in south Wales (one of the UK’s most polluted regions). Seasons greetings from Banksy.
‘sup?
Bonkers writes:
Original Banksy up for auction in Dublin on the 12th November. On display from Friday 9th to Monday 12th at the RHA, Ely Place, D2. Guiding 30k-40k
Yesterday, students at Bridge Farm Primary School in Bristol turned up to find a mural painted sometime the previous night by elusive local boy Banksy, along with a thank you note for naming one of the school houses after him.
This morning.
A new Banksy outside the French embassy in London – depicting the tear gassing of refugees at the so-called ‘Jungle’ in Calais – being covered up.
Banksy’s artwork included, for the first time, a QR code beneath it – allowing viewers to link to and watch an online video of a raid on the camp by police on January 5.
Related: Banksy’s new artwork criticises use of teargas in Calais refugee camp (The Guardian)
Previously: ‘We’d Settle For Animal Rights’
Via Jon Scammell
This morning.
Banksy-esqe road sign graffiti outside Bow Street Academy for Screen Acting in Smithfield, Dublin.
Shimmy Marcus, Bow Street Academy creative director, writes:
We actually have a Banksy mural inside the school so these will be a welcome addition….
Photographer Jeff Friesen’s LEGO recreations of famous Banksy works, most of which play with or expand on the story of the original art (featured at the top corner of each image).
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