I wish him all the best. Lots of his work may be imitating Banksy at the mo', but thats not a bad place to start is it?

It is when it's plastered around the original.

Props to Cartrain though, at least he's getting somewhere.

Totally agree, and if his art doesn't ever develop into his own style then it isn't great for the lad.

But he's having a go and I hope he comes up with some beauties. Mainly because I live in Shoreditch and it will make my walk home more interesting.

(and as long as he's painting the walls he aint nicking my car )

I dont agree, Silky.

I do plenty of work on the streets, but unlike cartrain (and many other fame hungry "artists") I choose not to sign my name and also find my own unique spots to do my artwork. For me, my street work is about the art and the message, not about me. Furthermore, my most inspired moments as a working street artist have been finding my own spots for my work and seeing other artists put their work around mine. In fact, recently I put up a stencil in Brooklyn and because I dont sign them, Borf came along and tagged his name underneath the stencil! made me laugh when I saw it.

My point here is this:
"Artwork [Anything] that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don’t go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a s**t.” - Banksy

my two cents.

I dont agree, Silky.

I do plenty of work on the streets, but unlike cartrain (and many other fame hungry "artists") I choose not to sign my name and also find my own unique spots to do my artwork. For me, my street work is about the art and the message, not about me. Furthermore, my most inspired moments as a working street artist have been finding my own spots for my work and seeing other artists put their work around mine. In fact, recently I put up a stencil in Brooklyn and because I dont sign them, Borf came along and tagged his name underneath the stencil! made me laugh when I saw it.

My point here is this:
"Artwork [Anything] that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don’t go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a s**t.” - Banksy

my two cents.

Talk about Cartrain’s stencils is all rather dated and tedious, he moved on last Summer to his own photomontage-with-faux-gild-frame placements.

He deserves respect for getting out there and getting up.

His style is baffling; I see an effort to get political, something anti-capitalist, a bit of anti-authoritarianism and a huge un-tutored morass of surrealism. I can’t argue that at present there is much quality. Perfect for the streets then.

Jonathon Jones is a very conventional art critic who tried to understand graffiti art by spending 24 hours reading Wall and Piece and BLT. He was generally un-impressed by Banksy’s trite insincerity and over-simplified slogans and after he criticised Cartrains’ stencils he described Banksy as mediocre, finally concluding that you shouldn’t “kid yourself that this is “art””. Sounds pretty close to kiki’s selective quote about Cartrain doesn’t it? Jones has no pedigree for “getting” street art and Cartrain has moved on, so I doubt the boy has gone off into a corner to turn emo.

And there is no law against positioning adjacent to other street artists. A graffiti artist wants to get their work seen (and there’s no denying the ambition in Cartrain), so which walls attract the most eyeballs? The ones with your Banksies and Swoons. That wall next to Atlantis linked to a couple of times above is plastered with a multitude of other graffiti artists so go and hang Sweet Toof, Cyclops, Swoon, Judith Supine and Elbow-Toe as well.

You critics of Cartrain are as big a bunch of bandwagon jumpers as you claim he is but the bandwagon stalled months ago.

Talk about Cartrain’s stencils is all rather dated and tedious, he moved on last Summer to his own photomontage-with-faux-gild-frame placements.

He deserves respect for getting out there and getting up.

His style is baffling; I see an effort to get political, something anti-capitalist, a bit of anti-authoritarianism and a huge un-tutored morass of surrealism. I can’t argue that at present there is much quality. Perfect for the streets then.

Jonathon Jones is a very conventional art critic who tried to understand graffiti art by spending 24 hours reading Wall and Piece and BLT. He was generally un-impressed by Banksy’s trite insincerity and over-simplified slogans and after he criticised Cartrains’ stencils he described Banksy as mediocre, finally concluding that you shouldn’t “kid yourself that this is “art””. Sounds pretty close to kiki’s selective quote about Cartrain doesn’t it? Jones has no pedigree for “getting” street art and Cartrain has moved on, so I doubt the boy has gone off into a corner to turn emo.

And there is no law against positioning adjacent to other street artists. A graffiti artist wants to get their work seen (and there’s no denying the ambition in Cartrain), so which walls attract the most eyeballs? The ones with your Banksies and Swoons. That wall next to Atlantis linked to a couple of times above is plastered with a multitude of other graffiti artists so go and hang Sweet Toof, Cyclops, Swoon, Judith Supine and Elbow-Toe as well.

You critics of Cartrain are as big a bunch of bandwagon jumpers as you claim he is but the bandwagon stalled months ago.

It was added to Banksys website about the same time the artist painting the knob was!!!

some
Most criticism relates to that Blam tag and the fact he puts up where other artists put up.