Del Naja is credited as being the first graffiti artist in Bristol. The graffiti artist Banksy cites his work as an influence. His work has been featured on all of Massive Attack's record sleeves. In 2015 he also collaborated with Jean-Michel Jarre on the Electronica 1: The Time Machine album, resulting in the track 'Watching You'.ĭel Naja was a graffiti artist before becoming a vocalist. The songs are available for free download. In February 2015, Del Naja and Thom Yorke released the soundtrack for documentary 'The UK Gold'. This new music material is also available for free download. The songs will be used by the site developers to make soundtracks for the games. In December 2014, Del Naja donated ten unreleased music tracks to the Game Jam site 'Ludum Dare', for a game event taking place in December. He counted with the collaboration of artists such as Guy Garvey, and the Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band. In December 2012, Del Naja released the first single of his new project called 'The Battle Box', which fuses music, art and discourse across one-off live events, exhibitions and exclusive vinyl releases. In addition to his work with Massive Attack, he provided vocals to 'Invasion' on Unkle's album Never, Never, Land, and 'Twilight' on War Stories. In 2009 he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.ĭel Naja is one of the founding members of Bristol trip hop collective Massive Attack. He emerged as a graffiti artist and member of the Bristol collective The Wild Bunch, and later as a founding member of the band Massive Attack, with whom he is still active. In many ways, Banksy also uses the symbol of the rat as a way of aligning himself with the wretched and the underdogs whom he often speaks about or on behalf of in his works.Robert Del Naja (/dɛl ˈnaɪə/ born 21 January 1965), also known as 3D, is a British artist, musician, singer and songwriter.

“If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved, then rats are the ultimate role model.” Instead, it seems he prefers monkeys for his original and editioned canvases. Given the relative importance of rats in the artist’s iconography and symbolism, Banksy has done a surprisingly few number of originals with them as the main protagonists. Banksy also realized numerous prints on paper in 2004, featuring various of his iconic rat characters. In terms of artistic output, Banksy has realized many murals featuring rats – mostly in England, and they tend to be smaller pieces.

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