Bull - Banksy Locations & Tours: a Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs in London, England

BANKSY LOCATIONS
& TOURS BY MARTIN BULL SPECIAL USA EDITION Over 75% of locations updated 25 photos improved or added extra love & peace included. BANKSY locations & tours
A COLLECTION OF GRAFFITI LOCATIONS AND PHOTOGRAPHS IN LONDON, ENGLAND
The author asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work. Copyright Martin Bull
This edition copyright 2009 PM Press
All Rights Reserved UK Edition designed by Stef at hoodacious.co.uk
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Library Of Congress Control Number: 2008909319 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in Canada on recycled paper with union labor. THE BIG ISSUE FOUNDATION This book is dedicated to Les, a Big Issue seller I met in Bristol, England. 10% of the authors royalties for this edition will be donated to The Big Issue Foundation (UK registered charity no. 100% of sales of a limited edition version of this book is being donated to them. 100% of sales of a limited edition version of this book is being donated to them.

Over 6,000 has been donated so far from UK sales & a private tour. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.BIGISSUE.CO.UK/FOUNDATION.HTML INTRODUCTION Do you fancy wandering the streets of London looking for graffiti, especially by Bristols finest son, Banksy? Or do you prefer sitting at home in your comfy chair (slippers and pipe optional, but highly recommended in these days of weapons of mass destruction,) looking at photos of his work and reading a bit about them? This unique, 100% unofficial book lets you do either. Follow my street tours (take an A to Z map as well though!) or take your own DI Y tour. Collect all of the locations like a geek (each site is numbered) or just wander around, stopping at the various quirky local attractions, and explore parts of London you may never have visited before. Or just flick through the book while youre on the crapper. Its up to you.

Banksy takes you through three tours of the artists graffiti in London, telling you where each piece is located, (including postal codes and approximate map/GPS references), what they look like, providing a bit of history, some documentary photographs, accounting for the current status of the graffiti (as of December 2007), as well as local landmarks such as bars, markets and tattoo joints. Dont expect pseudo-intellectual ramblings on what this graffiti all means, how the Banksy phenomenon has taken off, who he is, who he isnt, why my grandmother looks a bit like Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, or what the difference is between graffiti and street art. Im not that interested in intellectualizing all this. Ill let you decide what it all means. THE GEEKY BIT Throughout 2006, many people responded to my leading questions (and downright annoyance) about where to find this graffiti. I have also discovered a lot myself while wandering the streets like a stray dog, following hunches and leads, and smelling the odd lamp-post to get that authentic feel.

In an effort to share this info and to let people take their own photos (if they want to its not compulsory) I have added the locations of a lot of graffiti (mainly by Banksy and Eine) to two location maps, and in 2006 also arranged and ran a series of free guided tours. If you want to find all this stuff yourself, there is a free map of Banksy (and other) graffiti, which I have contributed a lot to:www.wallcandy.info The Flickr Banksy group:www.zeesource.net/maps/map.do?group=1571 There is also an Eine Location Map, which I started and organize. Access is free. Visit it at www.zeesource.net/maps/map.do?group=6502 I doubt I will do any more tours. There is so little left to show, except on the Farringdon tour. However, I will always try to advertise the tours and any future books or maps on the following sites: Wallcandy Forum: www.wallcandy.info The Flickr Banksy group:www.flickr.com/groups/banksy/ And my website: www.shellshockphotos.co.uk HOXTON &
SHOREDITCH
TOUR THE BIGGEST TOUR BY FAR At a pretty decent pace, it took us three hours.

It could be far longer if you include all the local streets and all the local graffiti. It is everywhere. And its always changing, so even though a lot of the featured graffiti is gone now, youre bound to always fid something new, or have never noticed before. Literally stumbling across the maid (see S20) early one Sunday morning in May 2006 (I suspect Banksy did it in the first hours of that same morning) was the kind of pleasure you can only really get by wandering around, keeping your eyes open, and following your destiny. You ll be amazed at how many weird situations have led me to come across this stuff! This tour goes around the capital of UK street graffiti Hoxton, Old Street, Shoreditch, and Brick Lane the creative, yet run-down, nouveau trendy East End. The streets (and railway bridges and alleys) are literally awash with graffiti of all styles, plus paste-ups, stickers, installations, art projects and all sorts of weird and wonderfully creative ramblings (picture frames on the street, nailed up art, tattooists, photographers and fashion victims, etc.) This tour is the longest of the three, but you could easily split it up, or just wander around a bit instead.

You wont need a tube or bus ticket. Its all relatively flat, and doesnt involve any unavoidable steps for someone using a wheelchair or pushing a baby carriage. Poison Rat Post Code: EC 1Y 1AU
Map/GPS reference: TQ 32796 82288 Location Olivers Yard, just off City Rd (A501). As seen in the Banksy books. It is now fading, but it is the only Poison Rat left in the area, complete with green waste spewing across the pavement, and the word Wanksy added to it!. Next Return to Old St station and use the subways to come out at Exit 8. CHECK OUT TH E WALL Post Code: EC 1V 2NR
Map/GPS reference: TQ 32706 82522 Location By Exit 8 of Old Street tube station. CHECK OUT TH E WALL Post Code: EC 1V 2NR
Map/GPS reference: TQ 32706 82522 Location By Exit 8 of Old Street tube station.

It may be white, it may be black, it may have art on it, it might not. Its an ever-changing open air gallery. The writer Arofish was the first to paint this wall white (using the old trick of posing as a workman) and then came back later to add some art to it. Since then, its had a succession of art and paint-overs, including one cheeky reference by El Chivo to the re-painting. I wonder what it will look like when you visit? Next Walk Up City Rd (A501). Soma by El Chivo, June 2006
followed by paint it blackpaint it white
by El Chivo, Oct 2006 (Both painted over) MICROPH ONE RAT Post Code: EC 1V 9EH
Map/GPS reference: TQ 32551 82701 Location Moorfields Eye Hospital, City Road, by Cayton Street.