Some Banksy from the Archives

After my little Paris street art book adventure I thought I would do something similar for London. I started trawling through my photos and came across a random picture I took in 2005 just off Brick Lane. The photo was of a tagged street sign but in the back ground there is a Banksy Stencil which is quite clearly visible. 


It does bring back memories of living in Shoreditch at the time and all the street art which was plastered up in the hood. Sadly I did not really have an interest in it back then and never appreciated the epicentre of art that I was living in. For example I clearly remember seeing one of Banksy's most famous pieces of the maid sweeping rubbish behind a painted curtain on the side of the White Cube gallery in Hoxton Square but never even took a photo of it.


When I went back to London in 2010 I wandered around a lot of the areas I had vague recollections of street art in. Sadly many of these had been cleaned in preparation for the 2012 Olympics.