1977. Lower Lamb Street

If you walk around Bristol enough, you can’t have failed to notice this tag decorating a great many wheelie bins in the City. This set of three is no more than a two minute walk from my office. The bins are by Sickboy, a Bristol artist who lives in London, and who first took up the spray can in the mid 1990s.

He was thought to be the first street artist to spray his large tag in this way, and the temple logo seen here is a famous one for those in the know. According to Wikipedia (and I don’t believe it for one minute) such wheelie bins have been known to fetch up to £55,000. Really? Then how come these ones are still on the street? Great to see his work about town.