The new graffiti shows a little barefoot boy kneeling at a sewing machine while he makes bunting for the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations.
Art critics are suggesting that the street art, drawn on Wood Green High Road in North London, is intended to highlight the disparity between the wealth of the West and the poverty of those who are used to make the goods bought there.
A few movies have been highlighting street art recently of which “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is the most well known. A recent Channel 4 documentary “Graffiti Wars” focuses an the so called “battle of spray cans” between underground graffiti hero King Robbo and Banksy.
Meanwhile, and what else can you expect from the cultureless Aussies, a piece of Banksy artwork valued at around £31,100 has been accidentally destroyed by builders. The Guardian reports a parachuting rat was painted about 15 years ago on a wall in Melbourne and has been a proud fixture of the area ever since. However, it was ruined when builders smashed a hole so that they could put new pipes into the building.
Our advice? Go and see the barefoot boy before some Pommie builders starts butting in new pipes…
