Street Art - ‘Invader’

This artwork is created by a French artist who pastes characters from, and inspired by the Space Invaders game in cities around the world. The characters are made up of small coloured sqaure mosaic tiles that form a space invader character mural. He then documents this as an ‘Invasion’, with books and maps of where to find each invader. This project started in Paris in 1988 - the city where he lives and the most invaded city to date. He then went on to spread the invasion to 31 other cities, France, London, Geneva, Cologne, Newcastle, Rome, Berlin, Barcelona, Bonn, Lausanne, Vienna, Graz, Amsterdam, Bilbao, Manchester, Darlington, and Ljubljana are among the 22 other European cities which have been invaded. In the world Los Angeles, New York city, San Diego, Toronto, Bangkok, Tokyo, Katmandu, Varanasi, Melbourne, Perth and even Mombasa have now been invaded with his colourful characters in mosaic tiles.

Amsterdam (Below)

Paris (Below)

Los Angeles (Below)

Rome (Below)