Peter Gibson (aka Roadsworth) began painting the streets of Montreal in the fall of 2001. He was motivated by a desire for more bike paths in the city and a questioning of “car culture” in general.
In the fall of 2004, Roadsworth was arrested for his nocturnal activities and charged with 53 counts of mischief. Despite the threat of heavy fines and a criminal record he received a relatively lenient sentence which he attributes in part to the public support he received subsequent to his arrest.
Since that time, Roadsworth has received various commissions for his work and continues to be active in both visual art and music.
Edit: the above artwork is by Banksy, also a great artist.
Also check out: 3D Graffiti and Rain Activated Street Art
Voyno
this makes me happy about the human race
Sep 15th, 2008
JMGBlage
Isn’t the one of the flower a Banksy?
Sep 15th, 2008
Chi
The flower one is Banksy for sure. The hands look like his too, but I’m not 100% on that one :)
Sep 15th, 2008
Takky
I’m luvin’ it!
Sep 15th, 2008
Rock
Cool art!)
Sep 15th, 2008
Del
A few of these are pictures taken from Banksys own work.
Sep 15th, 2008
Chris Menning
I’m pretty sure that’s just his flower NEXT TO a Banksy.
Sep 15th, 2008
Honour Chick
im not impressed
Sep 15th, 2008
fat douglas
That is some pretty awesome stuff. =)
Sep 15th, 2008
fk off
this is great stuff..thank you for sharing
I will never look at street stuff the same,
very kewl
Sep 15th, 2008
Will
The one with the flower is definitely Banksy. It’s a UK street. Look at it closer.
Sep 15th, 2008
dave Pixelshift
Just because it was done with a stencil doesn’t mean it’s a Banksy… You cheap art critics…!
Sep 15th, 2008
Swati Paul
Amazing Art!!!
Sep 15th, 2008
Pol
Unfortunately, the one with a flower is 100% Banksy, no doubt about it.
I like most of the others but some seem a bit out of context.
Sep 15th, 2008
John
I think the Banksy photo was probably a mistake on the part of the poster and not the artist ‘ripping’ anyone off. Lay off guys. Otherwise the work is entertaining.
My personal faves for the statements they make are the barbwire crossing and the footprint crossing.
Sep 15th, 2008
MsMays
Looks pretty cool to me.
But get over the flower already! It’s already been established that it probably isn’t all of his work.
Just enjoy looking at creative art!
Sep 15th, 2008
Aaron
Be aware that the flower on the wall is work of Banksy.
Sep 15th, 2008
Jiff Wilfred
Amazing. Absolutely amazing!
Jiff
Sep 15th, 2008
johndick01
This is the definition of novelty art. A bunch of gimmicks, plus isn’t that flower piece a banksy?
Sep 15th, 2008
8Bit
The picture of the flower up the wall is Banksy.
Sep 15th, 2008
jon wright
clearly nobody reads the post above them or there wouldn’t be so many “that’s a banksy” posts and knee-jerk condemnations of the artist. First, If i’m not mistaken, roadsworth is in Montreal (you now, in Canada) and Banksy, well, isn’t. Not to say he couldn’t travel all the way up to Mtl and do a little work there, but i think as it’s been stated before, this is a case of someone adding a banksy shot by accident.
Sep 15th, 2008
TurntheScrew
Nice to see that this isn’t just street ‘art’ that serves no purpose other that to advertise someone’s name. Hopefully some of this stuff stayed around for a while before it was ‘cleaned up’.
Sep 15th, 2008
John
wow, this was fantastic. thanks for a good start to the morning.
Sep 15th, 2008
ZZZ
nice and creative!
Sep 15th, 2008
Adam
@jon wright:
“clearly nobody reads the post above them or there wouldn’t be so many “that’s a banksy” posts and knee-jerk condemnations of the artist. First, If i’m not mistaken, roadsworth is in Montreal (you now, in Canada) and Banksy, well, isn’t. Not to say he couldn’t travel all the way up to Mtl and do a little work there, but i think as it’s been stated before, this is a case of someone adding a banksy shot by accident.”
First off, some of them are banksy’s, and secondly, just because he SAYS it’s in montreal, doesn’t mean it is indeed montreal. Check out banksy’s site, and you’ll see that the flower piece is actually in britain, not Canada as was stated.
Sep 15th, 2008
blowd
“banksy banksy!”
“nuh uh, shut up! who cares!”
These pictures are cool and you are not, because you are arguing about them on the internet.
(Flower one is totally banksy.)
Sep 15th, 2008
Dorian
I saw this, read the Banksy rip-off comments, and looked up Banksy for the first time. Ohhhh, he’s the one who has influenced so much of todays art play. How do you know Banksy is even one person? How do you know Banksy didn’t rip off someone else’s first? I bet it was put in by mistake, the flower, but I’ve also seen takes on it and other ideas of Banksy’s becoming almost mainstream. It’s moshed into the art psyche and I love it. I love Peter Gibson’s clever stuff, too.
Sep 15th, 2008
manda
the only one that is banksy’s is the flower and its an easy mistake to make seeing as the artist featured here does that kind of stuff, i mean the artist wasnt saying he did banksys work… the poster just made a slight mistake, cut him/her some slack, either way some of the above is pretty cool.
Sep 15th, 2008
Yuriy
That flower is def. Banksy!
Neat nonetheless.
Sep 15th, 2008
BluePan
Sorry to tell you Banksy fan but he was not the frist,get over it!! love the pics thanks for posting
Sep 15th, 2008
Eyesrolling
All these flames about Branski! And all of them based on faulty reasoning: just because Branski’s art appears on somebody’s website about Gibson doesn’t make Gibson a thief or a talentless hack; he’s simply the victim of someone else’s error. Yes, the sunflower is obviously in London and is not by Gibson. Get over it – Branski’s great and everything, but it’s not like he invented graffiti/public art.
Sep 15th, 2008
taco lover
In total agreement with the comment above! What a bunch of toolsheds you people are arguing about a simple mistake.
Sep 15th, 2008
Mr.cool
The 15th picture was taken in Bruges (Belgium)!!!
Love it to live here :D
greetz!
Sep 15th, 2008
Steve
Actually, I don’t reckon Banksy stuff is all that original and cool! Nearly everything is copied in one way or another… This guy has just come up with something that is interesting and makes people look!
Sep 15th, 2008
bianca
100% Not a Banksy..
there you go
Sep 15th, 2008
Joe
I’m pretty sure the flower on teh wall is a banky piece
Sep 15th, 2008
Text
Photoshopped. lol jk
Really enjoyed these. I like to do the same thing but with chalk because it washes away easily.
Sep 15th, 2008
Charlie
This style of art is always fun to look at but after a while it becomes almost predictable and even though it’s original somehow doesn’t feel like it.
I was blown away by Banksy when I first discovered him but now the concept has began to bore me.
Sep 15th, 2008
Chi
@everyone
It’s important that people point out the mistake in the article instead of just saying “cool, I like it” because it would give the wrong impression to people who don’t know about the artwork. If readers didn’t point out the Banksy pic, then people who don’t know Banksy wouldn’t realize the mistake and thus, may pass it on. That doesn’t detract from the rest of the great art, but overlooking a mistake doesn’t do -anyone- any good.
Sep 15th, 2008
John
As for the flower piece. Most need to realize it’s not -only- a flower. If you look to the left of it, you’ll see a human painter tagged on the wall. Now I may not know Banksy (The person, or the group) personally, but I can recognize his style first and foremost. And that sort of human is his art style.
Otherwise, this was pleasant. Great stuff all around.
Sep 15th, 2008
Photoshopped
@Text: You can tell they are photoshopped because no city official (either in Canada or the UK) would let a crew paint this stuff on the roads. It’s against the law. I would know because I’ve been working as a road painter for the DOT more than 15 years.
:P
Sep 15th, 2008
Duncan
Good to see roadsworth up here, Ive seen alot of those pieces on Ste. Catherines in Montreal.
Sep 15th, 2008
Albond
@Photoshopped: Yes, there is no possible way that the artist might have painted this at night without permission when no “city official” was watching. Definitely not. I mean, that would have gotten him arrested and charged with 53 counts of mischief or something, which never happened. Ever. -_-
Reading is fun!
Sep 15th, 2008
tommy
Wow, the negativity! Just seeing the pictures was enough for me. Photoshopped or not you have to admit it is an interesting concept. Although I can’t say I have seen the exact images above I have seen similar real life work on the streets and my town aint that big.
Thanks for posting the pictures.
Sep 15th, 2008
Banksy
um… hullo….
you shallow bunch of wankers!
just enjoy it for what it is…
Sep 15th, 2008
rstanley
Whoever it is, it is cool!
Sep 15th, 2008
David Greiman
Very original. Thanks for making my day.
Sep 16th, 2008
Remy
First of all, these are beautiful and I wish someone would come to cleveland (Ohio that is) and paint beautiful things like this instead of the gang tags that cover our streets. I especially love the footprint and the scissors (coupon cutting line)
Secondly @ Albond: Before trying to be a clever cynical a$$ take just a moment to think that maybe someone could be joking.
On a similar note, these are definitely photoshooped, I can tell from the pixels, having seen quite a few shoops in my day.
Sep 16th, 2008
dave Pixelshift
yo if you type in ‘roadsworth’ on flickr you will see that people actually took pictures of roadsworth works… and that they are not photoshopped… haha!
Sep 16th, 2008
lily
wow!!! this is wonderful! is very very impresionat and inteligent! good idea!!
Sep 16th, 2008
Slingy
Wonderful. I would love to see such art in my daily life. I know it could be distracting at times, especially for cars on the roads, but with good control (or less of it) this world would be much cozier ;)
Sep 16th, 2008
Noureddine
Fabulous !
Sep 16th, 2008
Ivan Marrinson
wow, you all are retarded, it says that it is banksy on teh flower one right below the picture
Sep 16th, 2008
juanhokuten
Wow, how creative the human being is. If these class of art will exist in my town, i almost sure i will live so happier… congratulations… i would like see that artistic expressions in my daily life…
see you…
Sep 16th, 2008
neil
Pretty F’in Kewl!!!!
Sep 16th, 2008
cchiovitti
How neat. Too bad this would never fly in the US. Too many stupid drivers would get confused and cause accidents then find someone to sue.
Sep 17th, 2008
yaser
its so good
Sep 17th, 2008
Sara
Nice! =)
Sep 17th, 2008
Phil
I love this stuff.. I’m starting to see some of it popping up around Montreal. Nothing this great though.
Sep 17th, 2008
Candice
Ok, so like one or two of these pics are entertaining, but for the most part it looks like crap and if I was the police, I’d definately charge him with mischief and stick him with a fine or make him clean the mess up himself.
Sep 17th, 2008
McCow
Ahhhhh is it Banksy or not? That is the question…..
Meself… I think illegally made street art is much more artistic, than having the city pay commission to someone to paint a bunch of crap on the road. Like where’s the fun in that? I’d much rather see a stencil of a cop porking a pig, in front of the local cop shop, than a commissioned barbed wire cross walk. Its all in the matter of Who has the BALLS to do it!!!!!!
Sep 17th, 2008
saeed shafipour
real art
Sep 17th, 2008
Tommy Åslin
I want stuff like this in my town. It’s great.
Sep 17th, 2008
website design
Awesome paintings, but I don’t know how I’d feel about a double yellow line leading me into a wall.
Sep 17th, 2008
Akanksha
Really interesting! Wish i had this in my city :)
Sep 18th, 2008
Penny
Photoshopped!!!
Sep 18th, 2008
Artist
Very cool. I’m glad to see people take the time to do temporary work like this. This art lives on through the photographs.
Sep 18th, 2008
Lynne
Thank you for making me look at our world in a different way. I needed to smile this morning, and ALL the artwork made me do so.
Blessings.
Sep 19th, 2008
Moe,Larry,or Curley ?
I can’t understand why there are so many”that’s a Banksy”,or”that’s stolen from Banksy”about the Flower.
The caption under it clearly states that it is a Banksy
piece of art.There was no intention to take credit for someone elses work,as Mr.Gibson plainly stated under the photo.Are people only looking at the pictures,and not reading the text accompanying them ?
Sep 20th, 2008
tuna coz
streets are ours.
Sep 22nd, 2008
Jomark Osabel
Cool looking street art but isn’t the traffic or roads signs have standards.
Sep 24th, 2008
gabriel viau
here is an other great artist dat uses the street art! hope you’ll like it !
xo
http://www.iloveyougalleries.com/gallery6.htm
Sep 30th, 2008
Duncan
How about this. If you’re an idiot, and you’re feeling compelled to write something containing the word “Banksy”, even though it CLEARLY SAYS SO, stop yourself right now.
Then click on my name. ;)
Oct 1st, 2008
mac
4 sure,
art is amazing, you guyz rockz, lovin ur art.
Oct 1st, 2008
Babaloo
The flower on the wall is absolutely disgusting!! It makes the building and the city look dirty and cheap!
Some of the pedestrian lines are awesome!!!!
Oct 1st, 2008
bhavik
it is cool and a nice art…
Oct 6th, 2008
jeff
i dont know who banksy is,but its some cool art.
Oct 6th, 2008
snowrussia
Great! …..
Oct 24th, 2008
jim
not bad.
Oct 29th, 2008
Ian
@ photoshopped
I know most of these are real since I’ve seen them myself when I was in Montreal over the summer…the shoelace one is near Place Des Arts.
Oct 29th, 2008
Lidiya Apparatus
These are quite the works! I should like to see them in real life. I enjoy the gags in particular, such as the plug or the film reel.
Jan 6th, 2009
shazzam billard
… a few of the comments are right. a couple of these works are done by banksy. for example- the flower one.
hes an amazing man.
May 5th, 2009
kozmetik
Hopefully some of this stuff stayed around for a while before it was ‘cleaned up’.
May 30th, 2009
afsaneh
I,ll drink to that!!!
Jun 29th, 2009
Nuchka
Banksy is definately the SHHIT.
Some of these are interesting but I’ve seen better.
Sep 9th, 2009
supasorn
pater you can not see very well say no to street art. You are very social and want to … on.
Sep 15th, 2009
thomas burge
that was wicked
Oct 5th, 2009
robert
FUNTASTIC
Dec 6th, 2009
Solya
Ez zsírdisznókirály!!!! Very nice!!!
Feb 8th, 2010
Terry O
Nobody here really knows who Banksy is. So for all they know this could be by the same artist.
Balls to Monty.
Feb 22nd, 2010
David
Flower one is banksy’s, 100% sure about it
Apr 18th, 2010
kristinn
wow! im loving the street arts. its really amazing.
Nov 26th, 2010
May
I love street art that shows houses,streets,or sidewalks all the sudden drop into water.It shows great detail and beauty of art.They are some that I find funny like the shoelace one,the zipper,and the plug.They’re all genius,but what I like the most is:the whole street looks like it’s water and it drops and there’s parts that levitate.BYE!
Jan 18th, 2011
S
I was wondering where these streets are. If anyone knows 100% Please help me out here.
Thanks
Mar 10th, 2011
Melvis
S,
I think most of Peter Gibson’s work is in Montreal, Canada. Juust watching a documentary called Roadswoth – Crossing The … on Sky Arts 1 in the UK at the minute. His work has some real humour in it
May 8th, 2011
Parker
I am an artist too and I love spray painting and I have never seen something like this before and i think it’s amazing
May 29th, 2011
Fred
Hi,
any one has the video to share with us ?
Thank you, Fred.
Jun 4th, 2012