The Newest Banksy: A Call for Action

According to several news articles online, such as one by The Art Newspaper, a new text yielding Banksy mural has appeared in London on the 26th of April 2019 in support of climate change activists Extinction Rebellion. Though Banksy has not confirmed it is his work, Extinction Rebellion used twitter to claim its authenticity and …

Text, Art and Audiences

Text has been used as a communication tool in artwork for many years. Some examples of this include: Magritte’s famous painting pipe painting Treachery of Images, the numerous comic strip styled artworks of Roy Litchenstein, the enormous collection of text based artworks by Jenny Holzer, and eco-artist David Buckland’s recent Ice Texts. But why do artist's put text in art? What is it that drives this need for communication with the audience of an artwork via not just image or colour or process but also words?