Street artist Invader or Space Invaders is a street artist from Paris that has put tile artwork across the globe. The street artist is one of the world's most popular, and an app and map help visitors to locate and mark off the street art they locate. Space Invader or Invader creates mosaic or tile street art, and these are often in 8-bit characters with throw-backs to old pixelated 8-bit games from the 1970s and 1980s and science fiction popular culture. The artist started his "invasions" in the 1990s. Over the years, I have photographed the artist's work in London and many other cities. The below photographs were captured in London and in Manchester over several years, although a few of them may also be from a trip to Manchester several years ago. Several of these have since disappeared or been further damaged.
One of my favourite ones features the "Star Wars" characters Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader ready to battle.
A few of the invaders are of the artist's older style, and these are much older with larger tiles placed.
His work sadly ofter suffers damage as people try to steal it, such as the below piece. You can see the "after" and "before" picture below it.
I also likd the below mural, which uses a CCTV camera as the centre of the potted flower. There are two additional CCTV cameras on this wall.
This piece walking into the heart of Soho also always makes me smile.
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