Graffiti artist Bambi leaves her mark across Islington - Original works going up in value
Published: 22 April 2011
by PETER GRUNER
MYSTERY surrounds the identity of Bambi, an Islington graffiti artist who is leaving her mark on walls across the capital.
Examples of Bambi’s work including “Hero to Zero” and “I’m too hot for my burka” are on show at the London Original Print show this week at the Royal Academy of Art for £1,000 each including
a frame.
The woman, who wants to emulate her hero, the famous Banksy, has stencilled cartoon graffiti on walls at various locations over the past year.
There is one of a baby outside a pawn shop at Caledonian Road, Barnsbury, with the words “Unredeemed pledge”.
Another in Primrose Hill, titled “Hero to Zero”, is a drawing of an aggressive looking male holding an equally nasty looking dog on a lead. The image is said to represent an ex-British soldier who fought bravely in Afghanistan but has become mentally unbalanced since returning home.
Framer Lenny Villa, 63, who has a shop in Caledonian Road, is one of the few to have met Bambi. He said. “We frame a lot of her work and she is becoming a collector’s artist.
“Obviously she’s no Banksy but her drawings can sell at auction at a starting price of £500. Bambi came into my shop one day to ask us to make a Banksy-style perspex box for a pop-up show she was holding.
“We saw some of her work and liked it very much. I love ‘Hero to Zero’, which has a very powerful theme. We’ve done some limited prints of that one.”
Mr Villa said that he guessed Bambi’s age to be about 35 and said she definitely lives in Islington. “That’s all I’m allowed to say about her,” he added.