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Street Art: Michael Crowley’s comical art brings out the world’s silliness

The Big Issue’s Street Art page gives talented, marginalised individuals an outlet for creative expression

‘Three for the price of one’

by Michael Crowley 

After years spent travelling and squatting, Michael ended up homeless in London with a drug habit. “I got into a hostel and eventually got myself clean,” he says. “Now I’ve got a Peabody flat and things are cool.” He likes to have humour in his work. “The more ridiculous the better,” he reveals. “I think the world is a very silly place and hopefully this comes though in my pictures.”

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