Comments on: Banksy in Bisbee? — Bisbee, AZ

By: micheal condor

micheal condor — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:17:50 +0000

i knew it was cricket when id seen it in bizbee,i wus visitin wth my homie,bright star.definly tell off the bat tht it was not to be confusd wth tht banksey feller.

By: Evelyn Rodriguez

Evelyn Rodriguez — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:38:31 +0000

Hi, I can confirm Matt’s comments. I live in New Orleans (live is as stretch, in actuality I am more of a wandering minstrel) and met Cricket myself. Passing through Bisbee about 2 weeks ago, I recognized some of those stencils on the wall – at least 6-8 of being Cricket’s work that I’ve seen in Nola, so I assumed that many more of the stencils were his handiwork. It’s thoroughly possible that Cricket was influenced by Banksy’s.

Appreciate the interesting bio you wrote up on Banksy. He was just back in Nola days before Gustav I heard. These are some of Banksy work in New Orleans, http://banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm

By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:15:50 +0000

Hi, I live in Bisbee, and I actually believe that most of our outdoor stencil art was done by an artist named Cricket. Recently, the city (in its infinite wisdom) had a public forum about what is and is not “art” as part of an ongoing “clean-up” of Bisbee. It was determined that stencil art, when tastefully done, on public surfaces, was indeed “art.” However, in the city’s haste to “clean,” the piece known as the “Victorian Lady” was sandblasted, pressure washed, or painted over, and the citizens of the city raised enough money through private donations to commission Cricket to come back to Bisbee to reproduce the original work.

However, I am not sure if all of the work is Cricket’s or if multiple stencil artists have done work in Bisbee.

Matt.