A unique and never before seen unique photo documenting Banksy painting 'Crazy Beat' in 2003. Photos by Steve Lazarides befor the painting was dry. And with Banksy painting on the...
A unique and never before seen unique photo documenting Banksy painting "Crazy Beat" in 2003. Photos by Steve Lazarides befor the painting was dry. And with Banksy painting on the ladder. Nor for sale. For exhibition purpose.
Provenance. Tony Stiles. During 2002 we (Tony Stiles & Tristan Manco) worked with Banksy and WHOA records on the 4 Badmeaninggood albums and in 2003 we worked with Banksy and Steve Lazarides, Blur and Parlaphone records on the "Think Tank" album and subsequent singles. During the Crazy Beat spray session the working priocess was heavily docimented by Steve Lazarides Banksy´s partner and agent at the time. There are no copies of this treasure. Some photos shows Banksy working. Seen from behind. No front photos.
Article from The Guardian 2009:
Council officials have painted over a Banksy graffito sketch from which a reworked version was derived as the cover artwork for the 2003 single Crazy Beat by the band Blur.
The artwork – a cartoon of the royal family waving from a balcony – had been left untouched on the side of a block of flats in Stoke Newington, east London, for eight years before Hackney council intervened last week.
Officials removed the sketch by Banksy – whose works have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds – as his largest exhibition to date, in Bristol, prepared to close. The exhibition has attracted over 300,000 visitors since 13 June, raising £45,000 in museum donations, and is estimated to have been worth £10m to the local economy.
Banksy vs Bristol Museum featured more than 100 works of art. The notoriously secretive artist was reported to have been secretly adding new installations to the exhibition by night.
A Stoke Newington blogger known only as Kris broke the news of the artwork's removal.
She reported that council workers said they had told their employers about the importance of the artwork. "We knew it was a Banksy, love. It's a Stoke Newington landmark; we know that. We told them, but they wouldn't listen," wrote Kris.
The owner of the building, Sophie Attrill, told the Hackney Gazette that she was devastated when she saw the wall being painted.
"I looked out the window and saw what they were doing, so I ran downstairs and I told them to stop," said Attrill. Hackney council said it tried to contact Attrill before ordering the artwork to be painted over, but notices asking her to remove or cover up the piece had not reached her address due to the Land Registry having the incorrect contact details.