The son of a photocopier engineer, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s.'īanksy found his edge with a shift toward stencil art. was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. As stated in the book Stencil Graffiti, “. At this level, one becomes fame, but how does this fame influence the creative process? Is one ever supposed to stay up? Banksy is one of the few street artists to achieve this status and cross over into the art world in a massive way.ĭue to the anonymous nature of the graffiti artist's persona, very little has been confirmed about the formative years in Banksy’s life. What happens, though, when one achieve up-ness? That threshold beyond the rest: worldwide recognition.

“Getting up” is a journey, implied in the future-tense of the language. Putting paint to the wall for the world to sit and wonder - how? - and more importantly: why? This is not done out of expectation that it will last forever, but as an affront to the fact that nothing will. ‘Getting Up’ is something graffiti writers aim to do.

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