Known names seen in the spray-it-yourself area included Jef Aerosol, The Krah, K-Guy, TEK13, Mr Brain-washed (but he was everywhere), Snub, Hush, Hutch, C215, Asboluv. These regular practising crims were jostling shoulder to shoulder with a horde of enthusiastic stencilists from the beginner (I’d never sprayed a can in my life before) to the staggeringly accomplished. Here’s a selection of some of the highlights.
In the main drag, Blek had passed through, dropping a few very familiar Blek images. A number of other artists had either escaped my attention on previous visits or had done their shit since Saturday lunchtime. A sand artist had set up in the sandpit area, for a fiver you could get your picture taken sitting on his sand sofa. The staggering liberty here was his sofa totally covered Banksy’s tag leopard which would deny one of the best pieces of the show from all today’s visitors. Get out of it!
Reports of carnage – unfounded
unknowns – love the linking of the toddler and the rocket
This lad must have been about 12-14, great stencilling and impressive images:
Tonch
Regular graffoto fav The Krah
Focus
SPQR
great bat placement – unknown
Well worked – AME72
What a pile of shit. Suspect Dicky and Smif (D*Face hackers) [update: Not Dicky & Smif. and everything else written is made up as well.]
The whole event was worth running!
More pictures from the access all vandals area here:
Write up of the main artists area in the previous blog entry, and pictures from the main artists here
POST SCRIPT:
Cans Festival proved to be something Graffoto had to devote far more than this post to, here is the full set of related posts:
Cans Festival – the first preview night visit
Cans Festival – Let Us Spray – what went on in Banksy’s pet project, the public access spray zone
Banksy, No Lions, Eelus Group Show – Banksy wanted anyone apart from artists to take up stencilling, we accepted the challenge
Cans Festival – One More Sniff – How the Cans wall art evolved in the first month or so after the event
Cans Recycled – First Peek – An un-scheduled sneak peek at the second version of Cans Festival when the tunnel was closed for a few days.
Cans Recycled Opens – Like it says on the tin
Alphabet Soup – The Cans 2 Letter Hunt – A Rarekind of letter game played at Cans Recycled
Cans2 Recycled Revisited – more.