BINTY BINT: It’s lovely, because I get to
spend time with Lola. And we create something beautiful together.
BINTY BINT: I like to keep my identity anonymous,
because I don’t think the art is really about me, it’s about the art. I don’t
think you really need to know what I look like and what I get up to and all that jazz.
COMM: This graffiti artist has a unique assistant – her 10-year-old daughter Lola.
COMM: And Binty began painting when she wasn’t that much older herself.
BINTY BINT: When I painted, when I was younger
at school, I was, think I was more into vandalism should we say than art, if that makes any
sense, and I didn’t have quite the respect that I have matured to have got now. But,
yes, my parents weren’t quite as approving back then, shall we say.
COMM: Now professional, these days she has
a far more unique style.
BINTY BINT: Well I didn’t want to do letters,
because everyone does letters, and I don’t like letters that you can’t read. And so
I thought I’d do something that like my children would see and it’d make them smile. So I
drew chicken one night and Lola came down the next morning, I think Lola was about four
at the time, and she goes, ‘Oh, I like your chicken in wellies,’ and I goes, well if
she likes the chicken and she could tell what it is, that’ll do me.
COMM: Binty practices with her young prodigy every chance she gets.
LOLA: I really like when she does abandoned
places. Because it’s sort of hidden away, and it’s not that the whole world gets to
see it. But if you go there and see it, it means that you’re one of the people that
experience her art work.
LOLA: There is no actual limit, but there
is in a way, but you can paint whatever you want, and it doesn’t matter because the
world won’t always judge you. Because they will never really know who it’s from if
they have never heard of the artist.
LOLA: Oh, crisps!
BINTY BINT: Oh, lovely! We can recreate the Beetles thing, can’t we? On a different
zebra crossing.
COMM: Binty regularly paints for her local
playgroup and today, she and Lola have been commissioned to do a new piece.
LOLA: We’ve been asked to do the graffiti
on the wall out here. We’re going to put a welcome sign here to welcome to the nursery.
LOLA: I’ll do this quick and the beak.
BINTY BINT: Okay.
BINTY BINT: I wouldn’t mind Lola becoming
a graffiti artist if she wanted to, it’s up to her.
LOLA: I don’t know, it depends on what I do, what I feel like when I’m older, because
I like at the moment but I might change.
BINTY BINT: Is that cute, yeah?
LOLA: Perfect, yeah. BINTY BINT: I love it. Do you love it?
LORRAINE MOLONEY: I’ve seen it around town,
I’ve seen it on some houses and garage doors and some dustbins, and I just thought how
colourful they were and just thought the nursery would really benefit from some lovely colourful chickens.
LORRAINE MOLONEY: And just when she said she
would do one for us, we were like really over the moon.
BINTY BINT: I like to think it’s family
friendly, I don’t want to offend anyone, there is no hidden messages, there is no politics,
there is no, it’s just a chicken. I think you should make of it what you want to make
of it, interpret it how you want to see it, but it’s just a happy chicken. Because everyone
loves chickens, don’t they? You love chickens? See, everyone loves chickens.
BINTY BINT: Beautiful.