Street Art by Nick Walker - In Paris, France
2014-04-17 10:00:03
Nick Walker (born 1969)[1] is an established graffiti artist originating from Bristol, England. He is credited with introducing stencil graffiti to Bristol in the early 1980's, hence being a big influence on Banksy.[2] Walker was invited by film director Stanley Kubrick to recreate the graffiti'd streets of New York for his 1999 film, Eyes Wide Shut.[3] His paintings often feature a bowler-hatted gentleman 'vandal', which featured in a video by The Black Eyed Peas.[3] Walker's paintings now sell for large sums of money - in 2006 a spray painted work titled "Moona Lisa" sold for an unexpected £54,000 at Bonhams in London.[4] At a solo exhibition at London's Black Rat Gallery in 2008, £750,000 worth of art was sold, with dozens of people camping outside the gallery overnight.[4] Walker was a main participant in the 2011 See No Evil event in Bristol, where he painted "perhaps the most striking piece at the event",[5] one of his bowler-hatted gentleman on the side of a tower block in Nelson Street. Walker still lives in Bristol.