Fatboy Slim will come to the county next month as part of an event put together by Kent\u2019s answer to Banksy.<\/p>\n
The iconic DJ is set to appear with street artist Catman at Whitstable for a live signing event.<\/p>\n
Fatboy Slim will appear alongside Catman in Whitstable on June 12. Picture: Catman<\/p>\n
Fans will be offered the chance to get pictures with the 61-year-old star, as well as check out exclusive artworks by Catman.<\/p>\n
Hosted by Hove coffee outlet Pepita Coffee, which partners with Fat Boy Slim, the event will take place at Thirty Nine Whitstable <\/a>on June 12 between 6pm and 8pm.<\/p>\n Based in Whitstable, Catman has shot to fame in the past decade for his street art style, drawing comparisons to the legendary Banksy.<\/p>\n In an interview with KentOnline in 2021, he said he was originally flattered but was forging his own individual style.<\/p>\n That year, he re-imagined an image of Vincent Van Gogh with a spray can<\/a>, kneeling beside a sunflower which he recreated on the side of public loos in Whitstable.<\/p>\n In 2020, he painted a picture on the former Debenhams in Canterbury, called The Usual Suspects<\/a>, which featured world-famous artists Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring in a police-style line-up.<\/p>\n It was a reproduction of a popular mural Catman originally created in London’s Portobello Road in 2017, which he has since exhibited around the world.<\/p>\n Also in 2020, he paid homage to the hard-pressed NHS and medics on the frontline at the height of the pandemic<\/a> with a street image in Whitstable of a stressed-looking doctor wearing a white coat and face mask with a stethoscope slung around his neck.<\/p>\n But behind him, his shadow does not match his dejected posture. Instead, it shows the silhouette of an upright superhero, wearing a cape.<\/p>\n The previous year, he took a dig at Boris Johnson and the Brexit referendum with an image of the then Prime Minister holding a TV-style \u2018Deal or No Deal\u2019 red box<\/a> which appeared in Hatton Garden in London.<\/p>\n And again in 2019, he was busy in Whitstable, creating an anti-plastic piece of artwork on the side of the Pilgrims Hospice shop in Whitstable, marking the birthday of wildlife documentary legend Sir David Attenborough.<\/p>\n To see more of his work or to buy tickets for the event, go to www.catmanartist.com<\/p>\n The elusive Catman street artist at work<\/p>\n
Catman’s reflection on hard working medics during the pandemic<\/p>\n