Ronzo arrived in London from Germany back in 2000. The artist is well known for his monsters which may be seen on the streets of Shoreditch. Ronzo’s street art is based on a future vision of a future post-apocalyptic London. His street art plays on our fears and uncertainites about the future albeit with a humourous twist.
Ronzo is an independent, non-profit artist that exists because this fragile Earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action. Quite frankly, it needs Ronzo!”
— Ronzo's Manifesto
Ronzo’s most loved work is ‘Crunchy’, who resides high up on the Great Eastern Street Side of Village Underground. Crunchy is a sentinal that watches over Shoreditch and even comes with his own blue plaque which reads: “CRUNCHY. The Credit Crunch Monster. 2008-2010. Official mascot of the global recession“
Another highpoint of Ronzo’s street art career in London was the installation of a trio of Credit Crunch Monsters (smaller siblings of Crunchy) at the edge of the City of London. This work, dubbed ‘Pity of London’, represented a wry sideswipe at the City of London Boundary Dragons that guard the Square Mile.
