Obama portrait artist draws Burnham for Big Issue cover to highlight rough sleeping vow
The Guardian reports, as an exclusive, that US street artist Shepard Fairey, known for the "Hope" portrait of Barack Obama from the 2008 presidential campaign, has created an image of UK prime minister Andy Burnham for the cover of the Big Issue. According to the outlet, Fairey says the image is meant to hold Burnham accountable over his promise to get people off the streets and address rough sleeping.
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Obama portrait artist draws Burnham for Big Issue cover to highlight rough sleeping vow
Exclusive: Shepard Fairey says image will hold PM accountable over promise to get people off the streets The “Hope” portrait of Barack Obama by the US street artist Shepard Fairey came to symbolise a historic 2008 presidential campaign, became one of the most ubiquitous and reproduced political portraits of modern times, and ended up in the Smithsonian. Fairey’s latest work, of the UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, may not elicit the same response but will, he hopes, deliver a hard-hitting messag
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