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Yesterday, one of Banksy's older murals was put on display near where it was discovered on Curtain Road, where a lot of building work is currently taking place. The work was discovered and restored over the past months. Due to being out of town for the past two days and recovering today, I was unable to see it. Apparently, it was painted over because it suffered damage. 

The image shows a police man snorting a line of cocaine. The piece has not been reproduced anywhere else, so it is an original. This comes within a couple of weeks of Banksy's collaboration tribute with grafitti-great Basquiat at Barbican, which I covered here.

The work is apparently restored to the floor where it was discovered a decade ago, and that location is at 115 Curtain Road. 

Street artist SNUB23, whose work I have seen a lot of in Birmingham, has recently been to London and left a new piece on Hanbury Street. This is the first time that I remember seeing work by SNUB in London. SNUB is a graphic designer, and he is anti-commercialism. His alter-ego robot, Hammerstein, is the subject that he often paints. He works as a solo artist or as a collective of like-minded street artists for the same cause.

The new piece features SNUB23's iconic green robot face, which is slowly morphed to appear more human across a series of three-dimensional cubist backgrounds. It's a wonderful addition to London's street art scene.

Ketones6000 is an artist from western Austrailia who is currently living in London. He creates artwork with geometry and colour and became interested in the arts through live theatre production. He has won awards in Austraila for his work and currently paints and completes street art in London. This year, he has painted several pieces. The most recent additions to his work include portraits and imagery of bees. 

On Pedley Street, he recently painted "The Bee Keeper" featuring a face surrounded by several bees and fruit. 

A realistic mural with bees and yellow flowers was painted on Great Eastern Street. The more recent pieces have been created beautifully as the artist continues creating street art, and the mural on Great Eastern Street is the best. It's a pity that the wall it is painted on is very angular as it doesn't show off the realism of the piece.

Off Bethnal Green Road, the bee theme was kept with another similar mural.

For Quaker Street cafe, Ketones6000 created two separate murals within a week or two of each other. One with with purple and yellow flowers, and the other was a portrait of a female with a floral background.

Earlier in the summer, he painted the following portrait of a female face surrounded by pink flowers.

Hopefully we will be seeing more work from this artist on London's walls.

Mexican-Columbian street artist Stinkfish has previously painted and exhibited in London. He's currently back in the city to promote his "Portraits in Transit" exhibition at BSMT in Dalston, which is on until the 8th of October. He creates images of people that he sees on his journeys and uses bright colours and geometric shapes. The skin of his subjects is painted in yellow while their style is highly illustrated with several bright geometric shapes radiating from them.

The newest work is located at the end of Hanbury Street, which has become a popular spot for street art this year. There are also a few new pieces across other areas in London. 

Previous work by Stinkfish that I have covered in this blog can be seen below:

Street Art: Stinkfish, Acaro, Mazatl

Late summer brought some new street art to London, and I found a few new pieces around the Nomadic Community Gardens. Envol, Fanakapan, and Lolie Darko were three of the artists who contributed to the new street art walls. First up, Fanakapan painted a chrome monkey.

Envol, who paints portraits of birds, painted a bird on the wall of the bridge, and the opposite wall contained an advertising piece for a film "an inconvenient sequel, truth to power" about climate change.

Street artist Lolie Darko is a French street artist who is no stranger to painting and exhibiting in London. She tends to paint images of sad-looking children that are sometimes accompanied by text. Many of her pieces are monotone with the placement of a red balloon, umbrella, or other subject. "Why does it always rain on me?" is one of her most recent murals in London.

The final piece is "Knitty Gritty" and features the word "Candie" spelled out in knitted text with balls of yarn.

Previous work by Fanakapan that has appeared on this blog can be seen by looking at the below links:

Fanakapan Paints Peace for Manchester
Fanakapan Paints Shoreditch Clowns
Chrome Balloon Dog in Star Yard
Fanakapan Paints "Power Tools" on Village Underground Wall
Fanakapan Paints "Drunk Glass Elephants"
Fanakapan, Horror Crew, & Jerry Rugg
Louis Masai and Fanakapan: "Freedom?"
New Chrome Street Art Mask by Fanakapan
Balloon Animal Street Art
Cranio & Fanakapan
Fanakapan and Horror Crew

French street artist Olivier Roubieu paints virtually realistic portraits, and it has been a little while since the artist has painted in London. Over this past month, he has returned to London to paint a portrait of a female on Pedley Street in the old underground building. The work is also accompanied by grafitti-style tagging using the same colours along the length of the wall.

Additional artwork painted by Olivier Roubieu can be seen in my blog at the following links:

Upfest 2015
Additional work toward the end of 2016

From Wednesday, the work of late New York grafitti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat will be exhibited at the Barbican in London. To pay tribute to this grafitti artist, who died in 1988 of a suspected drug overdose, two new works by Banksy have appeared on the walls near the exhibition. The work uses Banksy's style merged with the style of Basquait, and Banksy attributes this to an unofficial collaboration. I went over to see the new work at lunch, and they had attracted a miniature crowd.

The main mural is inspired by the 1982 work "Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump". The new mural shows the signature man and dog (in Basquait's style) being welcomed by the police (in Banksy's stencil style).

I am not sure who added the illustration of the man with the skateboard and crown as this was not included in Banksy's original piece.

The second mural shows Basquait's style of Ferris wheel on a black background with Banksy's style of artwork, a stencil of a ticket box and people queuing below the wheel.

A silver foil crown had been placed at the foot of the artwork.

An older Banksy stencil is located only a couple of blocks away. The stencil is of one of Banksy's famous rats. It is holding an "I love London" sign, which was added to by Robbo. Robbo was a grafitti artist who had a famous bickering with Banksy. 

Have you seen the new works by Banksy, and what do you think? Does anyone have any ideas who added to Banksy's mural and who placed the foil crown?

Street artist TraficGraphics has painted a new mural on one of the area's best walls for street art on Hanbury Street off Brick Lane. (I think that the artist had also painted a chess-playing monkey this spring off Brick Lane as it appears to be in the same style.) The artist has painted a gorilla on a black wall. The gorilla's face is partially showing with the light casting on one angle while the remainder remains blended into the darkness. (I visited this a few times and it remained unfinished, but I last visited earlier this week and noticed the addition of a butterfly on the gorilla's finger.)

A close-up of the gorilla's face is below.

More work by the artist can be seen in my blog here:

Chess-Playing Monkey on Pedley Street

Street artist Samer recently returned to painting London's streets after painting a bird in New Inn Yard a few weeks ago. The new work also features a bird and has (in fact) three blue birds painted on a colourful geometric leaf background. The new mural is located on Pedley Street, which is one of the area's high profile walls but has not had much care recently. I am happy to see a colourful and nice new artwork up in this spot.

A close-up of one of the birds is below.

Additional posts with street art by Samer in my blog are located below:

Samer Paints Bird, New Inn Yard

Hanna Lucatelli is an artist and designer from Brazil whose work is comprised of monotone black-and-white images (typically of portraits) with floral imagery and type. I caught her illustrating her latest piece on Hanbury Street off Brick Lane. I returned in the middle of last week to find that the piece was finished with the words "Love Saves".

This seems to be the only mural that the artist has painted while in London, but do let me know if you are aware of any additional pieces.