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High Kingsdown street art reappears days after it was painted over
It was painted over only a few days after appearing and has now just as quickly reappeared.
John D’Oh painted the original work on the side of Fresh Chinese takeaway on St Michael’s Hill. Following its removal, he swiftly returned and painted an identical piece in the same spot.
“I never usually repaint stuff but was getting lots of messages asking me to put it back and also felt bad for Fresh, whose wall was messed up with what looked like white emulsion,” D’Oh told Bristol24/7.
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He added: “I know some artists do touch up there work but personally I find that a little egotistical.”
The wall had been painted over by Friday
But it had returned by Sunday
In order to entice clicks to their website, the Bristol Post were quick to speculate that the work was by Banksy – but D’Oh is well-known for pastiches of his fellow Bristolian.
D’Oh said: “The reaction was fantastic but let’s face it, that reaction wasn’t really for me; it was just they thought the art was created by another artist.”
The work is a reference to a piece that Banksy painted in Los Angeles in 2011 called Crayon House Foreclosure.
The new version is a swipe at Banksy, whose lawyers recently took action against an Italian art gallery which was selling unauthorised Banksy merchandise.
Work by D’Oh has appeared across Bristol in recent year, including a stencil of well-known Big Issue seller Jeff Knight on North Street, and a skeleton waiting for a bus at the top of Park Street.
The street artist said that he chose this particular location in High Kingsdown “as wall space in Bristol is getting increasingly hard to find. There is some other street art also near by so thought it would fit in well.”
He said: “I then asked for permission which took a while but was worth waiting on.”
John D’Oh’s piece has ‘Intellectual property, keep out’ written on the crayon house
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