EastEnders...

Considering I didn't get to bed until about 3am last night, today has been surprising productive and full. After a lazy breakfast etc, I finally managed to get my act together enough to go off in search of the latest offering Banksy. Just off Bethnal Green road in East London stands a fifteen foot tall flower, which follows the double yellow lines from the road, and up on to the side of a house. The piece also features a man sitting on a paint tin, holding a yellow paint splattered roller. I've seen endless photos of it on Flickr which I have, of course, added to. The photos certainly don't do it justice, and I wasn't expecting it to be a large as it was! It must have taken some doing! Impressive.


After I had carried out the necessary photographs, I decided to wander along Bethnal Green road towards Brick Lane and see if I could spot anything else. Brick Lane was packed! There is all manor of markets and things along there at the weekend (apparently) so I enjoyed a slow stroll along, taking photos and looking and the different things on offer. As I made my way along, I spotted some posters for an exhibition called NineteenEightyFouria. I was intrigued, so I headed in. It was certainly a great find! The massive, open plan space was full of mixed media screen prints of various sizes. The images reflected the theme of George Orwell's book NinteenEightyFour, but visually were very reminiscent of early twentieth century communist posters. They were superb, and I throughly recommend heading down there to see it if you can.