Craig Alan | Big Ben Banksy Subversion Art the animal that shaped cities

the animal that shaped cities before the car replaced it

Nigeria in 2000

Drawing on the Pop Art tradition while maintaining the irreverent energy of his street art background

it carries the immediacy of Cox’s process in a way no print or reproduction could

Craig Alan | Big Ben Banksy Subversion Art the animal that shaped citiesCraig Alan Big Ben Original Populus series Big Ben is among the most conceptually loaded of Craig Alan's Populus works a painting of London's most recognisable landmark, built from hundreds of individually painted people who become, at the correct viewing distance, the tower itself. The choice of subject is not incidental. Big Ben is a symbol of collective time, of the public clock that organises the lives of millions, rendered here from the bodies of