Hanbury Street has been a popular place for new street art in the past month with a new mural by Martin Ron (New Mural by Martin Ron on Hanbury Street), next to ROA's crane. Last week, new artwork appeared from Guy Denning on the wall formerly occupied by DALeast (Street Art: DALeast). Guy Denning is an artist born in 1965 from Somerset in England who has an art career spanning a few decades now. His work primarily includes portraits, and he exhibits in museums. The work on Hanbury Street features a portrait of a woman, and the lines (shade and dark) are made up of type (letters and numbers).
Guy Denning
Guy Denning
For more information about the artist, visit his website: http://www.guydenning.org
On the other side of the road from Guy Denning's mural is a mural collaboration by Alex Face, Mau Mau and Bon featuring a range of odd characters. The characters include a fox roasting marshmallows (Mau Mau), a boy sleeping in a cyclops rabbit onesie, another rabbit onesie with a missing ear (Alex Face), and a psychotic-looking bird taking a knife a bird's leg next to a large 'DELETE' button (Bon). The artwork is quite clever as it interacts with the large mural of ROA's bird on the corner, and when standing in the correct place, the leg looks to be in the right angle. I've photographed the work below with ROA's large crane at the angle where the characters interact with it.
Alex Face's artwork
Alex Face, whose real name is Patcharapol Tamgruen, is an artist from Thailand. He often found abandoned buildings in Bangkok to paint, and the boy in the rabbit suit above is a common character that he paints. For more information about this artist, visit the website at: http://bukruk.com/festival/items/alex-face/
Mau Mau's work consists of witty characters, and these are often portrayed against large brands. For more information, visit the artist's official website at http://www.mau-mau.co.uk.
Bon is another artist from Thailand, and partial-skeleton fish are one common subject. For more work from this artist, visit: https://www.facebook.com/Bon.mue or http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbon/
Bon and Alex Face also and most-recently collaborated on a new piece off of Brick Lane on Pedley Street. The mural features several of their characters, including a scene around the corner of the characters in black and white paint with a hose with coloured spray paint coming out of it.
Bon
Alex Face and Bon
A final collaborative piece by the two appeared across from their work on Hanbury Street on the shutters of a bakery and coffee shop. The work features the two with a delicious-looking pink cake and cups of coffee, representing what can be bought in the shop that the shutters belong to.
Alex Face and Bon
Mau Mau
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