Pegasus is the name and signature of an anonymous North London street artist. Originally from Chicago, his stencilled pieces play with popular culture’s most recognisable icons, such as Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Lucille Ball, Amy Winehouse, Catherine Middleton, JFK and Elvis Presley and are sometimes ironic or controversial.
Pegasus made headlines with a stencil showing the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, as the Virgin Mary with Prince George of Cambridge as baby Jesus.
He is perhaps best known for Fallen Angel, an image of Amy Winehouse on the side of a Camden information centre (Starbucks) that was whitewashed over before being repainted and ‘opened’ by Winehouse’s mother Janis in December 2013. The artwork was the site of an unofficial shrine for Ms Winehouse in the days after the singer’s death in 2011.
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