6300. Sparke Evans Park (102)

Kid Krishna, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, August 2024
Kid Krishna, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, August 2024

I haven’t featured Kid Krishna’s very much over the last few months. That doesn’t mean to say he hasn’t been painting, he has, it just shows how difficult it is for me to keep up with the volume of wonderful artwork being produced in Bristol on a daily basis. I might have to do a catch-up collection of Kid Krishna’s work, just to put things right.

Kid Krishna, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, August 2024
Kid Krishna, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, August 2024

This is a striking and quite unusual combination piece by Kid Krishna with his graffiti writing (which might spell out CRIE – it usually does) and a muscular skeleton, who I think it is Skeletor from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe franchise. The two parts of the piece are juxtaposed creating quite a special look. It feels good to get back on the Kid Krishna merry-go-round.

360. Upfest 2016 (17)

Fake is a brilliant self-taught Dutch stencil artist from Amsterdam whose work at this year’s Upfest is one of the outstanding pieces. Who can forget the image of a comic character (is it Skeletor? I’m not much cop at this kind of thing) riding a banana?

Fake, Greville Road, Upfest, Bristol, July 2016
Fake, Greville Road, Upfest, Bristol, July 2016

The clean lines and framing of the piece on a white wall is what really makes this something different and special. Once again Upfest brings in talent like this for Bristolians to enjoy and appreciate for at least a year, and makes us all hungry for more.

Fake, Greville Road, Upfest, Bristol, July 2016
Fake, Greville Road, Upfest, Bristol, July 2016

I was very struck by this piece by Fake, and it is in my ‘top ten’ (figurative, not literal, because that would be impossible) from the festival. His website is well worth a gander too.