Banksy

 

Banksy is a world-renowned Graffiti artist who has been satirizing and reinvigorating the art world since the 1980’s. Banksy isn’t a graphic designer, but I interpret him as a graphic artist and visual communicator as all his pieces have a purpose and key principle behind them.
Banksy is sometimes seen as an art terrorist, he is never seen on camera and no one is sure who he actually is. Despite this Banksy isn’t shy but he is confrontational in his artwork. His work is often controversial and political in context to outline a desired message, creating a high level tone to promote his endeavours as a suggested creative strategy. In context, using an individual and notorious stance, he plays with the elements that surround shock tactics, drawing in the attention of his desired audience, the media, as proven in his project in Palestine. I find Banksy inspirational, not just his work but also his mindset and creative thinking. He targets his work around many societal issues of the modern day, mainly to communicate a message and involve the attention of the media, but also to influence the lives of today’s society, by encouraging us as a nation to speak up, be daring and influence others. Clearly inspired by Banksy the work of contemporary graffiti artist Philip Gabriel takes on a similar creative strategy. He plays on political elements and their effect on today’s economy, in a similar production style to Banksy.