Owner pledges to save Banksy artwork (From Daily Echo)
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Joe Sidhu vows to have Banksy's Southampton painting restored
7:10am Tuesday 30th November 2010 in Entertainments
THE owner of a Banksy masterpiece painted over by a vandal has vowed to restore it as a local landmark.
Joe Sidhu was left devastated after white paint was daubed over an image of a child by world famous guerrilla artist Banksy – art worth more than £20,000.
But now the dad-of-one, from Bassett, hopes the paint can be removed before it absorbs into the work of art, on a wall of a Southampton terrace house he owns.
He said: “It has got to be done as quickly as possible. I want it to stay there for the people of Southampton.”
Art expert and gallery owner Keith Sekree, who keeps Banksy originals at the TAOI Gallery, in Shamrock Quay, Southampton, said the paint was sticky and may cause problems if left.
He said: “Time is of the essence because the paint will become ingrained because of the wall’s porous surface and then it will be harder to get off.”
A specialist cleaner is now set to come from London to clean it using chemicals that can delicately remove one coat of paint while leaving the paint underneath mostly intact.
The stencil, in Bevois Valley, with “No future” emblazoned above in red graffiti, has become something of a tourist attraction since revealed as authentic last week before being painted over last Tuesday night. Paul Singh, 40, a traffic safety officer from Lordswood, said driving his car at about 10.45pm he spotted a young brunette in her 20s by the wall with a brush. She was crouching in a long black coat and clutching a blue plastic bag while painting the wall.
He said: “She was not paying any attention to the traffic. It was strange. At the time I did not know what she was doing.”
Comments(22)
hulla baloo
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8:31am Tue 30 Nov 10
Sainty saint saint
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8:36am Tue 30 Nov 10
hulla baloo wrote:Not if the PRIVATE owner of the wall wants it on HIS property.
Whichever way you look at it, is still graffiti and vandalism.
Elgy
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8:59am Tue 30 Nov 10
Family Bloke
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9:02am Tue 30 Nov 10
It's not like it can be sold at auction, unless of course you buy the wall and take it home, will it add value to property?
hulla baloo
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9:02am Tue 30 Nov 10
Sainty saint saint wrote:Did he ask for it to be painted?
hulla baloo wrote: Whichever way you look at it, is still graffiti and vandalism.Not if the PRIVATE owner of the wall wants it on HIS property.
Family Bloke
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9:07am Tue 30 Nov 10
hulla baloo wrote:I bet he doesn't mind having painted on it the wall now, it's worth £20k
Sainty saint saint wrote:Did he ask for it to be painted?
hulla baloo wrote: Whichever way you look at it, is still graffiti and vandalism.Not if the PRIVATE owner of the wall wants it on HIS property.
freemantlegirl2
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9:12am Tue 30 Nov 10
Sainty saint saint wrote:I'm so pleased about this, and however that person is they are a total killjoy!
hulla baloo wrote:Not if the PRIVATE owner of the wall wants it on HIS property.
Whichever way you look at it, is still graffiti and vandalism.
YOu're very welcome to paint something on our house Banksy, not because it's worth money but because it's a message and a very powerful one!
itsmehere
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9:45am Tue 30 Nov 10
freemantlegirl2 wrote:same here freemantlegirl2, i would welcome him with open arms if he wanted to paint on my wall. in fact he could paint my whole house lol x
Sainty saint saint wrote:I'm so pleased about this, and however that person is they are a total killjoy!
hulla baloo wrote:Not if the PRIVATE owner of the wall wants it on HIS property.
Whichever way you look at it, is still graffiti and vandalism.
YOu're very welcome to paint something on our house Banksy, not because it's worth money but because it's a message and a very powerful one!
freefinker
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9:58am Tue 30 Nov 10
Family Bloke wrote:.. not only is your first bit gobbledegook, but your assertion "it's worth £20k" seems to be at odds with your earlier post where you say "Why do the Echo keep telling us it's worth £20k?".
hulla baloo wrote:I bet he doesn't mind having painted on it the wall now, it's worth £20k
Sainty saint saint wrote:Did he ask for it to be painted?
hulla baloo wrote: Whichever way you look at it, is still graffiti and vandalism.Not if the PRIVATE owner of the wall wants it on HIS property.
Make up your mind FB
Family Bloke
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10:33am Tue 30 Nov 10
freefinker wrote:In my last post I was using a bit of rhetoric, the Echo keeps telling us it worth £20k.
Family Bloke wrote:.. not only is your first bit gobbledegook, but your assertion "it's worth £20k" seems to be at odds with your earlier post where you say "Why do the Echo keep telling us it's worth £20k?".
hulla baloo wrote:I bet he doesn't mind having painted on it the wall now, it's worth £20k
Sainty saint saint wrote:Did he ask for it to be painted?
hulla baloo wrote: Whichever way you look at it, is still graffiti and vandalism.Not if the PRIVATE owner of the wall wants it on HIS property.
Make up your mind FB
What's the point is telling us it's £20k, they are putting a price on something you can not buy, unless you buy the wall.
freefinker
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10:56am Tue 30 Nov 10
Family Bloke wrote:Rhetoric: "the art of effective or persuasive .. writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques" OED.
freefinker wrote:In my last post I was using a bit of rhetoric, the Echo keeps telling us it worth £20k.
Family Bloke wrote:.. not only is your first bit gobbledegook, but your assertion "it's worth £20k" seems to be at odds with your earlier post where you say "Why do the Echo keep telling us it's worth £20k?".
hulla baloo wrote:I bet he doesn't mind having painted on it the wall now, it's worth £20k
Sainty saint saint wrote:Did he ask for it to be painted?
hulla baloo wrote: Whichever way you look at it, is still graffiti and vandalism.Not if the PRIVATE owner of the wall wants it on HIS property.
Make up your mind FB
What's the point is telling us it's £20k, they are putting a price on something you can not buy, unless you buy the wall.
I think you failed somewhat.
Family Bloke
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11:06am Tue 30 Nov 10
freefinker wrote:Google that did you?
Family Bloke wrote:Rhetoric: "the art of effective or persuasive .. writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques" OED.
freefinker wrote:In my last post I was using a bit of rhetoric, the Echo keeps telling us it worth £20k.
Family Bloke wrote:.. not only is your first bit gobbledegook, but your assertion "it's worth £20k" seems to be at odds with your earlier post where you say "Why do the Echo keep telling us it's worth £20k?".
hulla baloo wrote:I bet he doesn't mind having painted on it the wall now, it's worth £20k
Sainty saint saint wrote:Did he ask for it to be painted?
hulla baloo wrote: Whichever way you look at it, is still graffiti and vandalism.Not if the PRIVATE owner of the wall wants it on HIS property.
Make up your mind FB
What's the point is telling us it's £20k, they are putting a price on something you can not buy, unless you buy the wall.
I think you failed somewhat.
freefinker
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11:20am Tue 30 Nov 10
Family Bloke wrote:No.
freefinker wrote:Google that did you?
Family Bloke wrote:Rhetoric: "the art of effective or persuasive .. writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques" OED.
freefinker wrote:In my last post I was using a bit of rhetoric, the Echo keeps telling us it worth £20k.
Family Bloke wrote:.. not only is your first bit gobbledegook, but your assertion "it's worth £20k" seems to be at odds with your earlier post where you say "Why do the Echo keep telling us it's worth £20k?".
hulla baloo wrote:I bet he doesn't mind having painted on it the wall now, it's worth £20k
Sainty saint saint wrote:Did he ask for it to be painted?
hulla baloo wrote: Whichever way you look at it, is still graffiti and vandalism.Not if the PRIVATE owner of the wall wants it on HIS property.
Make up your mind FB
What's the point is telling us it's £20k, they are putting a price on something you can not buy, unless you buy the wall.
I think you failed somewhat.
I already knew what rhetoric meant.
Just used a dictionary for a precise definition.
No_Fuss
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11:56am Tue 30 Nov 10
Richard Milgate
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12:00pm Tue 30 Nov 10
itsmehere wrote:if he does a discount, he can do my bathroom too. Who says there's no work around these days?
freemantlegirl2 wrote:same here freemantlegirl2, i would welcome him with open arms if he wanted to paint on my wall. in fact he could paint my whole house lol xSainty saint saint wrote:I'm so pleased about this, and however that person is they are a total killjoy! YOu're very welcome to paint something on our house Banksy, not because it's worth money but because it's a message and a very powerful one!hulla baloo wrote: Whichever way you look at it, is still graffiti and vandalism.Not if the PRIVATE owner of the wall wants it on HIS property.
southy
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3:04pm Tue 30 Nov 10
freefinker
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3:21pm Tue 30 Nov 10
southy wrote:.. in theory, yes, you are right.
has this is a concrete rendered on brick wall, it can be removed with out taken the part of the wall down, you just remove the concrete render from the wall, it can be done and might be worth while in doing so, after they try to restore it
But have you ever tried removing a huge slab of render from a brick wall in less than 100 pieces?
Rax
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5:52pm Tue 30 Nov 10
freefinker wrote:I couldn't do it ff, but my understanding is that there are specialists that can.
southy wrote:.. in theory, yes, you are right.
has this is a concrete rendered on brick wall, it can be removed with out taken the part of the wall down, you just remove the concrete render from the wall, it can be done and might be worth while in doing so, after they try to restore it
But have you ever tried removing a huge slab of render from a brick wall in less than 100 pieces?
southy
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6:34pm Tue 30 Nov 10
Rax wrote:how they do it has i under it, is that they restore the art work first, then a clear plastic resin is soak in to the rendering over the art work. the out side get supported when dry, then fine holes are drilled on the edge of the brick water is then pump in to the holes at a very low pressure and left for a while to make the brick and a thin layer of the render soft. then a wide and very thin blade is pass down in the soft layer of the brick and render.
freefinker wrote:I couldn't do it ff, but my understanding is that there are specialists that can.
southy wrote:.. in theory, yes, you are right.
has this is a concrete rendered on brick wall, it can be removed with out taken the part of the wall down, you just remove the concrete render from the wall, it can be done and might be worth while in doing so, after they try to restore it
But have you ever tried removing a huge slab of render from a brick wall in less than 100 pieces?
that,s basically how i under stand how they do it.
freefinker
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8:45pm Tue 30 Nov 10
southy wrote:sounds feasible, thanks southy.
Rax wrote:how they do it has i under it, is that they restore the art work first, then a clear plastic resin is soak in to the rendering over the art work. the out side get supported when dry, then fine holes are drilled on the edge of the brick water is then pump in to the holes at a very low pressure and left for a while to make the brick and a thin layer of the render soft. then a wide and very thin blade is pass down in the soft layer of the brick and render.
freefinker wrote:I couldn't do it ff, but my understanding is that there are specialists that can.
southy wrote:.. in theory, yes, you are right.
has this is a concrete rendered on brick wall, it can be removed with out taken the part of the wall down, you just remove the concrete render from the wall, it can be done and might be worth while in doing so, after they try to restore it
But have you ever tried removing a huge slab of render from a brick wall in less than 100 pieces?
that,s basically how i under stand how they do it.
Elgy
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11:12am Wed 1 Dec 10
hulla baloo wrote:Criminal damage = "A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another intending to destroy or damage any such property or being reckless as to whether any such property would be destroyed or damaged shall be guilty of an offence." The fact the owner wants it 'restored' provides lawful excuse for the damage, so there isn't a crime.
Sainty saint saint wrote:Did he ask for it to be painted?
hulla baloo wrote: Whichever way you look at it, is still graffiti and vandalism.Not if the PRIVATE owner of the wall wants it on HIS property.
Higginz says...
8:16am Tue 30 Nov 10