4 signatures included - An investor / fan, a collective of two iconic Walker pieces 'Boom Box Vandal' Screen print 2016 in a blue colourway & A Sequence of Events book - Signed with rare 1st Edition Silk Screen Printed Cover and other signed ephemera and other signed items from the Black Rat Press Preview Evening, 2009.
Artist : Nick Walker
Title : 'Boom Box Vandal'
Edition : Numbered '31/50' in pencil [BLUE] (All 50 are individual as they are Hand Finished and created in a variety of colourways red, Blue, Purple etc)
Date : 2016
Medium : A Hand pulled 3 colour & Hand Finished in whites screenprint in (Blue colourway) on heavy wove paper
Signed : With Nick Walkers Monogram Signature
Size : Sheet 68 x 68cm, on wove paper with deckled edges
Limited Edition : 31/50
Unframed
Condition Report : Stencil Art Stored flat – Book shows minimal signs of age
About the ART, THE BOOK and the ARTIST
THE SCREEN PRINT STENCIL - 'Boom Box Vandal' is a screenprint in colours, signed with NW monogram and numbered '31/50' in pencil
Boom Box Vandal has intricate detail, fantastic form, crisp lines and neat accuracy. Only to be expected with Walkers work.
Nick Walker is a British graffiti artist originating from Bristol, England. His paintings often feature the bowler-hatted gentleman, 'vandal'.
Walkers Iconic alter ego, VANDAL the dapper pinstriped, umbrella carrying, Bowler Hatted man.
In Walkers own words ‘represents himself at the beginning of his graff career, when he would don this disguise to Subversively spray graff on the streets of Bristol.
Vandal is seen sending out, transmitting the vibes of Bristol's Wild Bunch, a reggae collective.
All 50 screen prints from this addition are unique due to the hand finished element and various Colour ways. Blue, Red etc
He is credited with being part of the early stencil graffiti movement that Robert Del Naja, Blek le Rat started in the 1980s, who both influenced Banksy and bambi.
THE BOOK - A SEQUENCE of EVENTS 2009 1st Edition Signed with Silk Screen printed cover
A first edition 2009 with a silk screen printed cover signed to the frontice piece with his NM monogram and also to rear cover and dated 2009
Signed with Walkers moniker to the back cover, AND to the inside cover and signed to the accompanying Private view invitation
Highly collectible, signed copy of A Sequence Of Events by NICK WALKER. Nick Walker's iconic bowler-hatted character is an urban prankster whose timeless work possesses a charming yet mischievous sense of humour. Together with a collection of never-before-seen stencil pieces, the book provides exclusive insights into the birth of modern street art and culture.
With 96 pages of images and Published in 2009, Signed to the back cover, Signed to the inside cover, signed at the Private view invitation by Nick on the night.
- The book Contains Walkers infamous and enigmatic ‘Moona Lisa’ stencil spray image. It is a 1st edition and the front page is a Silk Screen printed cover. (and is personally signed in felt pen on the BLACKRATPRESS publicity book release night).
Also included in the package -
Some printed discs featuring Walker’s classic Apeish Angel graphic – freebies from the BLACKRATPRESS publicity book release night.
A SIGNED invitation to the Private view that I asked Nick Walker to sign on the night!
A BLACKRATPRESS publicity news letter.
A FINANCIAL TIMES May 2004 Urban Art ‘Off the Streets, exposé on the rise of Urban Art.
In 2006 a spray painted work of Walker's titled "Moona Lisa" sold for an unexpected £54,000 at Bonhams in London. At a solo exhibition at London's Black Rat Gallery in 2008, £750,000 worth of Walkers art was sold, with dozens of people camping outside the gallery overnight.
Walker recreated the graffiti'd streets of New York City for Stanley Kubrick's 1999 film, Eyes Wide Shut. His work has also appeared in The Black Eyed Peas promotional video.
Walker was a main participant in the 2011 ‘See No Evil event in Bristol’, where he painted "perhaps the most striking piece at the event" one of his bowler-hatted gentleman on the side of a tower block in Nelson Street.
Walker continues with his Urban Art in the public realm and was the first artist-in-residence at the Quin Arts program for the Quin Hotel in New York City.
There Walker created 15 original pieces on-site for the Quin’s permanent collection during his residency in 2013, shortly following the hotel's opening.
In February 2016, Walker revisited the Quin to show both historic images, as well as a new vocabulary of abstraction. This solo exhibit, curated by DK Johnston, presented 25 original works and opened the hotel’s Quin Arts program for the 2016 season.
In November 2016, Walker joined a cohort of fellow former Quin Arts artists-in-residence, using the D’Angelico Guitar as their “canvas,” this was for an infamous artists salon. His contribution to the design featured curvilinear numbers resembling musical notes.
Walker still lives in Bristol and London.
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