STREET ART

Street art is something that is greatly under appreciated so we here at THE Zoo will highlight known artist, and just any and every piece of work we find worth being solidified in time. Please feel free to request or send in work to The Human Zoo Facebook

Todays featured artist is none other than Banksy. also visit his website @ http://www.banksy.co.uk/

BANKSY

By Shepard Fairey 


What got you into graffiti? I know that you did more traditional graffiti at one point.
B: I come from a relatively small city in southern England. When I was about 10 years old, a kid called 3D was painting the streets hard. I think he’d been to New York and was the first to bring spray painting back to Bristol. I grew up seeing spray paint on the streets way before I ever saw it in a magazine or on a computer. 3D quit painting and formed the band Massive Attack, which may have been good for him but was a big loss for the city. Graffiti was the thing we all loved at school – we all did it on the bus on the way home from school. Everyone was doing it.

Finish article here:  http://swindlemagazine.com/issue08/banksy/

Meanwhile here are a few examples of his work: