It is only right to mark my 50th street art post with my favourite stencil artist. JPS, an adopted son of Bristol is from nearby Weston-super-Mare, where several of his works adorn the holiday town streets.
This incredibly detailed stencil, ‘Spartacus’ is a tribute to the Welsh actor Andy Whitfield who played the star role in the Starz TV production of Spartacus. He died in 2011 aged 39 of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
I was lucky enough to photograph this work a day or two after it was completed on 13 April 2015. It is the detail of the clothing and belt that I think marks out JPS as an incredible talent.
The ‘Spartacus’, on the wall of the Queen Shilling night club, is only yards away from another JPS I posted on 8 July 2015.
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Great piece! I was going to say I thought he looked a bit like Gerard Butler. Shame about his death.
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Thanks. I didn’t know about the TV series nor the actor before I saw the stencil and researched it.
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Congrats on your 50th street art post–keep ’em coming. He is very talented but not as well know as some other stencil artists from that area.
I didn’t realize that graffiti artists did so many tributes until I saw your posts. Or are the Bristol area artists more part of the community and therefore do more tributes than other areas?
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Thanks, I think the street art community is very tight in Bristol, and the authorities very permissive, which brings a close bond between the artists and their community. It is kind of ‘our thing’, if you know what I mean.
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