EINE 'Circus Letters' Bunting Available

Artist: EINE
Title: Circus Bunting
Medium: 26 Letter Bunting Flags
Size: 1,000 x 32 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Prices: £70

London-born Ben Flynn (EINE) swapped a dull insurance job for the thrill of tagging Tube lines in the 1990s, gradually shifting from illicit scrawls to supersized, candy-coloured letters that now light up shutters from Shoreditch to Tokyo. His breakthrough idea painting the entire alphabet across Middlesex Street turned a nondescript East-End road into the world-famous “Alphabet Street” and proved typography could be street art’s main event, not just its caption.

In 2003 he co-founded the print studio Pictures on Walls (POW) with Banksy, becoming the in-house screen-print maestro who hand-pulled editions for Jamie Hewlett, Mode2 and Banksy himself; the DIY outfit gave early street artists a legitimate income stream long before commercial galleries would return their calls. The alliance paid diplomatic dividends in 2010 when David Cameron gifted EINE’s canvas Twenty First Century City to Barack Obama, catapulting the once-underground painter into headlines and the V&A, MoCA and Urban Nation permanent collections.

Today EINE’s murals, clothing line and record-breaking 17,500 sq ft “CREATE” wall (visible from space) continue his mission to make words punch as hard as images, reminding passers-by that letters are “characters” in both the typographic and human sense.