Couple of stencil bits up at the end of City Road where it meets Stokes Croft at the moment, round the advertising board that apparently is scheduled to be removed pretty soon, which should free up a massive space for bigger work.

One of them’s a Michael Jackson stencil, that according the the Evening Post bears the hallmarks of a Banksy piece. Assuming one of Banksy’s hallmarks is using an A4 printer. And another one is underspray. And not signing his work.

Still though, topical and quick, and perhaps there’s something to a black era MJ being sprayed in white.

This Dan piece is pretty well done though, sure it’s appeared somewhere else already, can’t immediately place it though.

If you’re not up to owt this Thursday, you could do far worse than wander along and check out this latest goodness from the lovely people at Steal From Work and others.

C6 and Steal From Work would like to invite you to the Bristol launch of Street Art Dealer, an explorative multi-faceted exhibition showcasing exciting new uses of QR Code technology in the context of Art.

Opening Night: Thursday 9th July
6pm-9.30pm
74-76 Horsefair, Broadmead, Bristol

We invite you to join us at the project headquarters where we will be unveiling BEAM the collaborative installation by Joseph Watts & Haywood Slucutt, as well as access to all the information concerning how to interact using the QR Code technology the other 4 artists work which will be installed around Bristol for you to ‘find’.

The exhibition will include Turner Prize nominee Tomoko Takahashi, James Powderly (Graffiti Research Lab), Zeus, Sebastian Lowsley-Williams and Joseph Watts & Haywood Slucutt.

There will also be  a free limited edition print taken from the BEAM installation for those of you who scan and read
a QR Code on the night (see below for info on QR Code Readers).

Anyone equipped with a camera phone and QR Code Reader software can scan a QR image and access the information it contains. Many new mobile phones come with this software already installed but nearly all camera phones have software available that’s easily downloaded and installed.

To fully take part in the Street Art Dealer events please download & install a QR Code Reader on your camera phone.
SITES TO DOWNLOAD READER SOFTWARE FROM:
- http://www.reader.kaywa.com
- http://www.beetagg.com

For more information visit http://streetartdealer.com/launch (or read the QR Code above!)

Another bit from Paris next to his splendid piece on Stokes Croft last week…

…closer.

Photo credit: Orb101

This all happened when the blog was at Glastonbury, but just a post for the record really, to note that both the Park Street Banksy and the Mild Mild West Banksy on Stokes Croft got defaced/vandalised/attacked/whatever with blue paint balloons the other week. First one done on Monday 22nd June, second one Tuesday 23rd June by the look of it.

Old news now, and not particularly interesting in the first place really, but there y’go. Only interesting part of the whole story is that Spud Murphy, tory councillor for Avonmouth, got stuck in to help clean the Park Street Banksy with his own cherry picker. Interesting, cos back in 2006 when it was done and the council had a ‘vote’ on whether to keep it, he was the most vocal person in favour of getting rid of it.

Politics hey? How times change.