Lot 140
Nick Walker (b.1969) 'Bion 12’ UNIQUE Framed Early Screenprint on Card, COA Signed & Monikered 2006
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2 Aug 2023 · Art, Antiques, Jewellery & Collectables | Collective Auction | Closes for Entries 16/07/23
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Nick Walker (b.1969) 'Bion 12’ UNIQUE Framed Early Screenprint on Card, COA Signed & Monikered 2006
An early iconic Walker piece. Nick Walker (British, b.1969 )"Bion 12" 2006 Spray paint and stencil on card. Nick Walker spray tag to the lower right and signed in black pen to the verso. COA Issued by ART-EL GALLERY
The Bion program, which began in 1966, included a series of missions that flew biological experiments using primates, rodents, insects, cells, and plants on a biosatellite in near-earth orbit. NASA became involved in the program in 1975 and participated in 9 of the 11 Bion missions.
The Bion program, which began in 1966, included a series of missions that flew biological experiments using primates, rodents, insects, cells, and plants on a biosatellite in near-earth orbit. NASA became involved in the program in 1975 and participated in 9 of the 11 Bion missions.
Bion 12 is Walkers prophecy of the outcome on the human race.
Framed with double sided glazing 75 x 63 cm (29" x 24").
Artist : Nick Walker
Published : Apish Angel
Title : 'Bion 12'
Limited Edition : Unique one off
COA : Issued by ART-EL GALLERY
Date : 2006
Medium : A Hand pulled Sepia colour screenprint on card
Signed : Signature and date in black ink to rear.
Moniker : Nick Walkers spray stencil Moniker to front in block l.r
Overall Size : glazing 75 x 63 cm (29" x 24")
Framed : Yes in a quality frame, with TRU VUE UV Glass to front and rear allowing view of Apish Angel blind stamp and signature.
Condition Report : Stencil Art Stored flat in great stored condition
About the ART and the ARTIST
Walker is credited with being part of the early stencil graffiti movement that Robert Del Naja, Blek le Rat started in the 1980s, who all influenced BANKSY and BAMBI.
Nick Walker "Bion 12" 2006 Spray paint and stencil on card. Nick Walker spray tag to the lower right and signed in black pen to the verso.
Framed with double sided glazing75 x 63 cm (29" x 24") the windows to the verso show Apish Angel and Nick Walker signature, he is one of the world’s best known street artists. Born in 1969, he emerged from the infamous and ground breaking Bristol graffiti scene of the early 1980s.
As a forerunner of the British graffiti phenomenon, Nick’s work has become a blueprint for hundreds of emerging artists. His work is constantly evolving and remains innovative, modern and thought-provoking. Nick draws on the energy and imagery of graffiti but he succeeds in combining the freedom the spray can brings, with very controlled and intricate stencilling. The results are highly sophisticated and infinitely desirable. The methods he uses retain their forcefulness and integrity on the traditional medium of canvas.
In 2006 a spray painted work of Walker's titled "Moona Lisa" sold for an unexpected £54,000 at Bonhams in London. At a solo exhibition at London's Black Rat Gallery in 2008, £750,000 worth of Walkers art was sold, with dozens of people camping outside the gallery overnight.
Walker recreated the graffiti'd streets of New York City for Stanley Kubrick's 1999 film, Eyes Wide Shut. His work has also appeared in The Black Eyed Peas promotional video.
Walker was a main participant in the 2011 ‘See No Evil event in Bristol’, where he painted "perhaps the most striking piece at the event" one of his bowler-hatted gentleman on the side of a tower block in Nelson Street.
Walker continues with his Urban Art in the public realm and was the first artist-in-residence at the Quin Arts program for the Quin Hotel in New York City.
There Walker created 15 original pieces on-site for the Quin’s permanent collection during his residency in 2013, shortly following the hotel's opening.
In February 2016, Walker revisited the Quin to show both historic images, as well as a new vocabulary of abstraction. This solo exhibit, curated by DK Johnston, presented 25 original works and opened the hotel’s Quin Arts program for the 2016 season.
In November 2016, Walker joined a cohort of fellow former Quin Arts artists-in-residence, using the D’Angelico Guitar as their “canvas,” this was for an infamous artists salon. His contribution to the design featured curvilinear numbers resembling musical notes.
Walker still lives in Bristol and London.
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