Weapon Of Beauty

I recently bumped into the work of UK artist Laura Keeble (www.laurakeeble.com). She mainly does interventions around London where she adds things to a specific location to mock the location or what it stands for. Her modus operandi of bringing social commentary with the toungue firmy planted in cheek is very reminescent of Banksy’s work. Even her subjets are an exact Banksy copy:  consumerism, religian, the royal family, the art industry, …  So she doesn’t get much points for originality, but I really do like the work where she takes on Damien Hirst. A couple of years ago she made a replica of his famous diamond studded ‘For the love of God’-skull and at the end of the actual exhibition she put it- along with some trash – outside the Mason’s Yard premises of White Cube Gallery which had the real  skull on display.