Daniel Halpin

Daniel Halpin (born 1985), also known as Tox, is a British graffiti writer. He has found fame for adding his tag, always simply the word Tox followed by a number indicating the year, in a very large number of locations across the London Underground network and walls around London and Glasgow.

London Underground 1962 Stock engineering train in 2008 with "TOX-02" and "TOX -(Unintelligible)" scrawled on the front.

He was convicted of criminal damage in June 2011[1] and imprisoned after a history of ignoring ASBOs. Prosecutor Hugo Lodge told the court: "He is no Banksy. He doesn't have the artistic skills, so he has to get his tag up as much as possible." After his trial Ben Eine, another graffiti artist, criticised his work, saying: "His statement is Tox, Tox, Tox, Tox, over and over again." he said that the tags are "incredibly basic" and lacking "skill, flair or unique style". A sentence of 27 months was later passed, the judge commenting "There is nothing artistic about what you do".[2]

Halpin was selling canvases bearing his tag for £75 each in 2009.[3]

References
  1. "'Tox' graffiti artist convicted of criminal damage". Guardian. 7 June 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  2. "Prolific graffiti vandal jailed for 27 months". London Evening Standard. 18 July 2011. Archived from the original on 17 December 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  3. "Vandal cashes in on law loophole". BBC News. 11 September 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
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