TINA BLAU 1/3 – “If you really want to become an artist, you have to learn to surmount problems”. This is what Simon Blau wrote to his sixteen-year-old daughter, who was on a study trip in Transylvania. She owed her successful career partly to her father, who lived out his own artistic dreams through his daughter, providing all the support necessary …

He was born in a Holland convent (his mother, unwed at the time, had fled there from Austria to give birth). After a year, she returned to her parents in Vienna, where her father became the major influence on Bernhard. After surviving a life-threatening coma, he studied music and drama in Salzburg and Vienna. Thomas Bernhard, was an Austrian writer …

BANKSY 1/3 – He is the godfather of a new form of pop art, that originated on the street. He used a foundation created by peers, to spread powerful messages using accessible street art. Banksy’s artwork, has been seen across the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INPxijwS3AY His travels have included Israel and Jamaica, Australia and England, the United States and even Canada. Arguably …