Camden News: More ‘graffiti’: One borough under Banksy!

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Camden News - By JOSH LOEB
Published: 17 April 2008

Student Gillian Fruh joins fellow Banksy fans by the street artist’s latest piece

More ‘graffiti’: One borough under Banksy!

MAYBE it’s the lenient approach taken by starstruck environment officials at Camden Council who have steadfastly refused to whitewash his cheeky stencils – but guerilla artist Bansky obviously feels the borough has become a happy hunting ground.
The graffiti star evaded tight security including metal bars, barbed wire and security cameras to reach a wall in Newton Street, Bloomsbury.
His latest piece shows a policeman photographing a child as she climbs on a ladder to daub the wall with the words: “One nation under CCTV.”
The work was done at night behind a sheet of polythene covering three storeys of scaffolding erected under cover of darkness.
By Tuesday throngs of Banksy fans and amateur art critics had gathered to admire the work, which was painted on a building owned by property investment company Structadene.
French tourist Edovard Lembé, 26, said: “I had heard of Banksy even before I came to England. He is a kind of legend, a mystery man.”
Gillian Fruh, 23, a student at the Sotherby’s Institute of Art, said of the work: “There is an enigma about how he did it when there is such heavy security.”
Richard Doffman, a property manager for Structadene, was a little more critical. Though he said the company had no “philosophical objection” to the graffiti, he added: “It’s over-rated. Couldn’t your six-year-old child have done the same?”

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