SEEN
Colourful exhibition at the Opera Gallery of work by SEEN, a Graffiti artist. I thought this was a fun colourful show when I walked in. Not quite my seen, pardon the pun, but still interesting. I assumed it was the work of a young up and coming artist then I looked at the price list, £93,000, and realised I wasn’t really understanding what I was looking at. A bit of Googling later and a useful article in the Independent and I found out SEEN is described as the “Godfather of Graffiti” so I was actually looking at new work by a man who had formed the origins of an art phenomenon. A bit of explanation on the hand out might have helped, but I guess for most people if they were there they knew and the gallery wasn’t expecting stray middle aged ladies to come in off the street! Review Independent