Who is Bambi?
She is one of England’s most popular street artists and this piece is both unusual for her and also not at all surprising.
“Don’t Shoot” was not created in her neighborhood. She dropped down to Shoreditch from Camden Town for this piece, like it was a special project.
She first became widely known with her portrait of Camden’s own Amy Winehouse and continued to paint celebrities around the north side of London.
‘Amy Jade,’ Amy Winehouse portrait by Bambi, Camden, London, 2011
As she developed, her feminist ideas became more prominent. Then other causes — she commented on climate change using the Pope in a piece in Rome and on treatment of immigrants in a piece near encampments in Calais, France.