"There are a lot of children who are not having a good time at Christmas, he said, adding that people walking past the artwork were ignoring it. It's a busy area. Quite poignant that people aren't stopping. They walk past homeless people and they don't see them lying on the street, Lloyd-Morgan said. It's kind of like they're stargazing. It's quite fitting that the kids are pointing up like they're looking at the north star."
"Centre Point tower has long been a symbol of homelessness crisis. It was left empty for more than a decade after being completed in 1966. The name of the homelessness charity Centrepoint was inspired by the tower, with founder Rev Ken Leech calling the building an affront to the homeless. The block is now multimillion-pound flats. Jason Tomkins, a Banksy expert, also thinks the mural is a clear statement on homelessness."
A Banksy mural showing two children lying and looking at the sky appeared above garages on Queen's Mews in Bayswater, west London. An identical artwork appeared outside Centre Point tower in central London. Banksy revealed authorship of the Bayswater piece by posting a photo to his Instagram account. Centre Point has longstanding associations with the homelessness crisis, having stood empty for over a decade and inspiring the charity Centrepoint; the tower now contains multimillion-pound flats. Artist Daniel Lloyd-Morgan interpreted the location as commentary on child homelessness and noted passersby largely ignored the image. Banksy expert Jason Tomkins linked the child figure to a 2018 Port Talbot piece, noting the reuse is unusual.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]