Coat of Arms Graffiti

Fresh out of the Bansky exhibition at the Bristol Museum, my head filled with graffiti and spray paint, I took a walk down Park Street to see one his originals. Then, all of a sudden, I spotted another one of his works (or so I thought). How could I have never noticed it before?! But there above Vincenzo’s Pizza Place was a real-​life Banksy graffiti.
With my excited stare I turned to my friends. They looked at me, stifling a giggle and a patronizing glare. It wasn’t a Banky, but one of Bristol’s own Nick Walker’s.
Walker emerged from the Bristol graffiti scene into the mass media in the late 1980’s and has his work has since been commissioned by the likes on Stanley Kubrick and Judge Dread. So if you’re ever making a visit to Banksy’s art at the bottom of Park Street, don’t forget to take the climb to the top to see another Bristol legend.