Sometimes you glance a piece of street art when driving about the place and make a mental note to go back on foot. This is one of those, and well worth the legwork to find it. It is a beautiful stencil of an owl by Kin Dose, which I figured was several years old, but is probably less than 18 months old if streetview is anything to go by.
The first observation is that this spot is a prime location for a stencil. Blocked out windows like this always make such fantastic framed backdrops for street art. I think that this is a barn owl, and the stencil is in very much the same style as his 2018 Upfest stencils, with the animal sprayed over a coloured swirl background. When I spoke to Kin Dose earlier this summer, he said that he has moved away from doing stencils because the cutting out process is tedious and he is preferring his spray-brush style at the moment. Lovely piece.
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A lovely piece indeed and perhaps just less than a year old although it got tagged in less than 24 hrs unfortunately . . .
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Shame about the moronic additions!
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Yup, from local taggers. Their burners are not a patch on Kin Dose’s work, so I suppose they have to spoil his instead.
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Was in Bristol on Thursday. Is it right that the barn owl is now a portrait of a guy?
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I am not entirely sure I know where the barn owl was. Most of the ‘semi-permanent’ walls have been re-painted.
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