Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

I really like his work. Not only because the execution is so good, or that the ideas are so great but it seems to have a real softness to it. Also unlike Banksy, who has great ideas but uses walls like billboards, he really understands public space and how to play with it much like Anthony Gormley. The trailer seems to want to set him up as an serious artist too by linking him with Antony Goldsworthy, another successful and popular "people's artist". That link is even more interesting as Goldsworthy's art is made from found materials on beaches and in woods and after photographing them he leaves them to be destroyed by nature. Not at all unlike graffiti.

His work is very well done, creative and inspiring.

However, it is wrong and pathetically arrogant to decide for the community what art it wants to look at. Where is the line drawn between graffiti and art? Many graffiti artists do crude work, but they still do the work for the sake of art, not gang identification. I always feel that the artist is overcoming shortcomings in the gallery and a lack of attention when they start to foist their work on the public like this.

I can see he is inspired by Bansky http://www.banksy.co.uk/

:)