This is a Stencil on the waterline of The Thekla, an entertainment boat in central Bristol. The image of Death is based on a 19th century etching illustrating thepestilence of The Great Stink.Banksy is the pseudonym of a prolific British graffiti artist whose identity is still unknown. According to author and graphic designer Tristan Manco, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s." His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stenciling technique, is similar to Blek Le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His art has appeared in cities around the world. Banksy's work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.
Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti. Art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder.
Banksy's first film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie", made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film was released in the UK on 5th March.
Today we had the choice of doing lightsaber after effects or sewing. I chose sewing as i wanted a calm lesson and i did not want to act in it. I used the same fabric throughout the teddy. It was a multi coloured fabric. It took a long time to make. I stuffed it with scrap pieces of fabric then i sewed on some face hair to cover up where i sewed it head after stuffing it. I sewed in the eyes and the mouth. For the eyes i just kept on sewing back and forwards to make the eyes thick enough to see.
Ged Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1963 and he is an English. He studied at the Ruskin in Oxford, the Slade School Of Art in London, The Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
He specialises in allegorical paintings which include contemporary images (generally on controversial topics in Western cultural history) in idyllic scenes based on classical paintings such as the pastoral works of Caspar David Friedrich and Claude Lorrain.
His Cross in the Wilderness introduces a miniature Spanau Prison, the iconic jail for Nazi war criminals, into a forest scene based on Der Chasseur im Walde by Friedrich, a leading painter in German Romanticism. Another painting, Darkening of the Green, places the controversial HM Prison Maze into a rural landscape.
Ged has exhibited internationally in many shows including Language of the Wall at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ljublinia, Slovenia, The Real Ideal at the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield, abd Showcase at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh. He is represented by Wilkinson Gallery which is in London.
Ged was also the keyboard player in the Liverpool group The Wild Swans which was a band. He was one of the three original core members, along with Paul Simpson and Jeremy Kelly, and played on their Zoo Records 12" single The Revolutionary Spirit/God Forbid released in 1982. He was also involved when the group reformed in 1986, although he left shortly afterwards to pursue his art career. A retrospective 2CD collection called Incandescent with Quinn appearing on all tracks, was released in 2003 by Renascent Records. However Quinn did not appear on either of the band's two albums for Sire Records later in the nineteen eighties.
In the interim between the Wild Swans Mks I and II he was also a member of another Liverpool band, The Lotus Eaters (new wave) and co-wrote their hit single The First Picture Of You.
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ged_Quinn
