"speculation that Banksy is: In October 2014, an internet hoax circulated that Banksy had been arrested and his identity revealed. Banksy started as a freehand graffiti artist in 1990–1994 as one of Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ), with two other artists known as Kato and Tes. He was inspired by local artists and his work was part of the larger Bristol underground scene with Nick Walker, Inkie and 3D. During this time he met Bristol photographer Steve Lazarides, who began selling Banksy's work, later becoming his agent. By 2000 he had turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much"
"are decorated with commissioned graffiti-style artwork, and in many others patrons are welcome to leave their own. There is still, however, a fine line between vandalism as an artform, as a political statement, and as a crime. Bristol-born guerrilla artist Banksy is an example: when councils have removed his works, they have been met by public outrage. Banksy's claim is that official vandalism is far worse than that perpetrated by individuals, and that he is decorating buildings of no architectural merit whatsoever. According to Susan A. Phillips (2016), an idea originally refer from the Greek word ""graphien"" (to write), graffiti"
"a shop. Banksy, who ""is not represented by any of the commercial galleries that sell his work second hand (including Lazarides Ltd, Andipa Gallery, Bank Robber, Dreweatts etc.)"", claims that the exhibition at Vanina Holasek Gallery in New York City (his first major exhibition in that city) is unauthorised. The exhibition featured 62 of their paintings and prints. In March, a stencilled graffiti work appeared on Thames Water tower in the middle of the Holland Park roundabout, and it was widely attributed to Banksy. It was of a child painting the tag ""Take this—Society!"" in bright orange. London Borough of"
"stencil art mainly in Bristol, England, but his work may be seen anywhere from Los Angeles to Palestine. In the UK, Banksy is the most recognizable icon for this cultural artistic movement and keeps his identity a secret to avoid arrest. Much of Banksy's artwork may be seen around the streets of London and surrounding suburbs, although he has painted pictures throughout the world, including the Middle East, where he has painted on Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side. One depicted a hole in the wall with an idyllic beach, while another"
"the content of most of his writings was kept in ""Wall and Piece"", the stories were edited and generally took a less provocative tone, and the grammatical errors were resolved (presumably to make it suitable for mass market distribution). Official websites: Slideshows and galleries: News items Banksy Banksy is an anonymous England-based street artist, vandal, political activist, and film director. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy's work"
"Well Hung Lover Well Hung Lover, also called Naked Man Hanging From Window and simply Naked Man, is a mural by the anonymous street artist Banksy, on a wall in Frogmore Street, Bristol, England. Painted in 2006 on the side of a sexual health clinic, it is the first legal piece of street art in the UK following a survey by Bristol City Council, resulting in retrospective permission and protection being granted for the mural, despite featuring nudity. It depicts a naked man hanging from a window, while a suited man looks out, next to a woman in her underwear."
"ranked ""Girl with Balloon"" as the United Kingdom's number one favourite artwork. In 2018, a framed copy of the work spontaneously shredded during an auction, by way of a mechanical device Banksy had hidden in the frame. Banksy authenticated he was responsible for the shredding and gave the altered piece a new name, ""Love Is in the Bin"". Sotheby said it was ""the first work in history ever created during a live auction."" The first mural was in 2002 at the stairs for Waterloo Bridge on the South Bank side. A number of other mural versions were also created in"
"be an important part of the city's creative DNA"" (Bennet). The event was organised by respected Bristol street artist Inkie (Tom Bingle) who emerged (like Banksy) out of Bristol's 1980s graffiti scene. Inkie said that the inspiration for the event arose partly from witnessing similarly grand street art projects in Lisbon and Melbourne: ""I thought it was about time Bristol, home of urban art in the UK had an installation of this scale."" ""Nothing of this size and scale has ever taken place in the UK and it's an event that has captured the minds of some the world's most"
"only accessible by water. A large full colour graffiti piece, called ""Robbo Incorporated"", it had over the years become the oldest piece of graffiti in London. Over time, virtually all of his works had been gradually removed from London's trains and walls by authorities, except for this piece. In 2009 however, the English stencil artist Banksy destroyed most of it with a stencil of a workman pasting wallpaper. King Robbo has stated that Banksy was introduced to him for the first time in the 1990s, commenting: ""I was at a place called the Dragon Bar on Old Street. I was"
"Works by Banksy that have been damaged or destroyed This is a list of damaged or destroyed works of guerrilla art created by Banksy, which have been removed from their original locations or otherwise damaged or destroyed. Banksy is an England-based graffiti artist. Most of the works that make up the October 2013 ""Better Out Than In"" series in New York City have been defaced or destroyed, some just hours after the piece was unveiled. As a result of the continued defacement, fans have been rushing to the sites of the installments as soon as they are announced. A group"
"Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery houses a collection encompassing natural history, archaeology, local glassware, Chinese ceramics and art. The M Shed museum opened in 2011 on the site of the former Bristol Industrial Museum. Both are operated by Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives, which also runs three historic housesthe Tudor Red Lodge, the Georgian House and Blaise Castle Houseand Bristol Archives. The 18th- and 19th-century portrait painter Thomas Lawrence, 19th-century architect Francis Greenway (designer of many of Sydney's first buildings) were born in the city. The graffiti artist Banksy is believed to be from Bristol, and many of his"
"King Robbo King Robbo (born John Robertson, 23 October 1969 – 31 July 2014) was an English underground graffiti artist. His feud with the artist Banksy was the subject of a Channel 4 television documentary called ""Graffiti Wars"", first shown in August 2011. Robbo painted his first train in 1985 and the ‘Merry Christmas’ train of 1988, a joint piece created with ""Drax WD"", receiving national coverage on ITV News and in ""The Independent"" newspaper. In 1985 King Robbo painted a graffiti work under the London Transport Police Headquarters on a wall beside Regent's Canal in Camden, London which was"
"Inkie Inkie is a London-based painter and street artist, originally from Clifton, Bristol. He is cited as being part of Bristol's graffiti heritage, along with Banksy, 3D and Nick Walker. Inkie began working as part of ""Crime Incorporated Crew"" (also known as the ""CIC"" or the Crime inc.crew) in 1983, along with Felix and Joe Braun. He was the head of the many artists arrested in 1989 during ""Operation Anderson"", the UK's largest ever graffiti bust. He arranged 1998's ""Walls on Fire"" event with Banksy, on the site of the future At-Bristol centre. He has subsequently worked in the video"
"London around 2000. Banksy is believed to be Robin Gunningham, born on 28 July 1973 in Yate, from Bristol. Several of Gunningham's associates and former schoolmates at the public Bristol Cathedral School have corroborated this rumour, and in 2016, a study found that the incidence of Banksy's works correlated with the known movements of Gunningham. Lawyers representing Banksy commented on this study, but did not suggest that the paper's conclusions were flawed. In 1994, Banksy checked into a New York hotel using the name ""Robin"", and in June 2017, DJ Goldie referred to Banksy as ""Rob"". There has been alternate"
"Art Buff Art Buff is a graffiti artwork by Banksy which was created in Folkestone in 2014, Banksy announcing it as ""part of the Folkestone triennial. Kind of"". The work depicts a woman wearing headphones and staring at a plinth, upon which rests a patch of painted-out graffiti. The name of the piece is a play on words, ""buff"" being a slang term for the painting over of graffiti. Reported on 13 October 2014, ""Art Buff"" was vandalized with the spray painting of a penis sitting on top of the plinth. During early November 2014 Robin Barton and Bankrobber London"
"other street artists was growing on the back of Banksy's success. On 21 February 2007, Sotheby's auction house in London auctioned three works, reaching the highest ever price for a Banksy work at auction: over £102,000 for ""Bombing Middle England"". Two of his other graffiti works, ""Balloon Girl"" and ""Bomb Hugger"", sold for £37,200 and £31,200 respectively, which were well above their estimated prices. The following day's auction saw a further three Banksy works reach soaring prices: ""Ballerina with Action Man Parts"" reached £96,000; ""Glory"" sold for £72,000; ""Untitled (2004)"" sold for £33,600; all significantly above estimated values. To coincide"
"Spy Booth Spy Booth was an artwork by Banksy in Cheltenham, England. The piece has been seen as a critique of the global surveillance disclosures of 2013. In 2014, Robin Barton and Bankrobber London helped with the preservation of the artwork, and attempted to broker the removal and sale of the piece. However the artwork was painted onto a Grade II listed building - 153-159 Fairview Road - and the council prevented it from being removed, giving it retrospective listed building consent in 2015 and affording it some protection from removal. Despite this, the artwork was either removed or destroyed"
"with UK culture, which included William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth II, David Beckham, The Beatles, Charlie Chaplin, J. K. Rowling, Elton John, and Adele. Banksy has claimed responsibility for a number of high-profile artworks, including the following: Many artworks by Banksy have been vandalised, painted over or destroyed. In 2008, in Melbourne, paint was poured over a stencil of an old-fashioned diver wearing a trench coat. In April 2010, the Melbourne City Council reported that they had inadvertently ordered private contractors to paint over a rat descending in a parachute adorning the wall of an old council building behind the Forum"
"Evil 2011, was a week-long graffiti art event, that claimed to be the largest street art event of its kind in the UK, reaffirmed Bristol's high position in the UK's urban art movement, and supports the claim, that Bristol may be the current international center of this urban art movement. The city has a well established and thriving urban art scene, with many walls around the city decorated over the years by artistic graffiti, notably around the Stokes Croft area, often by local but international respected urban artists like Inkie and Banksy. ""Urban and street art are widely felt to"
"Hammersmith and Fulham spokesman, Councillor Greg Smith branded the art as vandalism, and ordered its immediate removal, which was carried out by H&F council workmen within three days. In late August 2008, marking the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the associated levee failure disaster, Banksy produced a series of works in New Orleans, Louisiana, mostly on buildings derelict since the disaster. A stencil painting attributed to Banksy appeared at a vacant petrol station in the Ensley neighbourhood of Birmingham, Alabama on 29 August as Hurricane Gustav approached the New Orleans area. The painting, depicting a hooded member of the"
"and died on 31 July 2014, aged 44. He left a son and two daughters. King Robbo King Robbo (born John Robertson, 23 October 1969 – 31 July 2014) was an English underground graffiti artist. His feud with the artist Banksy was the subject of a Channel 4 television documentary called ""Graffiti Wars"", first shown in August 2011. Robbo painted his first train in 1985 and the ‘Merry Christmas’ train of 1988, a joint piece created with ""Drax WD"", receiving national coverage on ITV News and in ""The Independent"" newspaper. In 1985 King Robbo painted a graffiti work under the"
"of a new store in Trinity Leeds. Students from South Worcestershire College England work with the Graffiti Kings to paint a colourful graffiti art mural in their college youth centre. Graffiti Kings help the visitors at the National Railway Museum in York England to produce graffiti art murals over a 2-week period. Graffiti Kings hold weekend graffiti workshops at the Banksy Tunnel in London to explain the distinctions between graffiti and street art. Cullen has admitted to engaging in vandalism and tagging while growing up in Croydon, but after later turning his work into a legal, commercial activity, Cullen was"
"and a shopping trolley floating in its reflective waters; another is Edward Hopper's ""Nighthawks"", redrawn to show that the characters are looking at a British football hooligan, dressed only in his Union Flag underpants, who has just thrown an object through the glass window of the cafe. These oil paintings were shown at a twelve-day exhibition in Westbourne Grove, London in 2005. Banksy, along with Shepard Fairey, Dmote and others created work at a warehouse exhibition in Alexandria, Sydney for Semi-Permanent in 2003. Approximately 1,500 people attended. In August 2004, Banksy produced a quantity of spoof British £10 notes replacing"
"remain. ""Well Hung Lover"" was defaced again on 24 February 2018, with black graffiti tags, beside and below the work, with phrases ""KAPES"", ""SOAK"", and ""FUCK BANKSY"". The legs of the hanging man were also sprayed over. • Banksy • Works by Banksy that have been damaged or destroyed • Bristol underground scene Well Hung Lover Well Hung Lover, also called Naked Man Hanging From Window and simply Naked Man, is a mural by the anonymous street artist Banksy, on a wall in Frogmore Street, Bristol, England. Painted in 2006 on the side of a sexual health clinic, it is"
"with the nicknames of ""3D"" and ""Delge"" in the early 1980s. He appeared in the UK documentary called ""Bombin'"" alongside Wolverhampton artist and later DJ and producer Goldie. ""Children of the Can: 25 Years of Bristol Graffiti"" by Felix Braun (FLX) and Steve Wright, is a book illustrating and documenting the street art scene in the city. 900,000 people visited an exhibition of Banksy's work at the Bristol Museum in 2009. In August 2011 Bristol City Council finally recognised the importance of graffiti to the city's culture by allowing an entire street to be painted by various international street artists."
"in August 2016. The GCHQ has used the picture on its website as a symbolic image for its ""what we do"" page. Spy Booth Spy Booth was an artwork by Banksy in Cheltenham, England. The piece has been seen as a critique of the global surveillance disclosures of 2013. In 2014, Robin Barton and Bankrobber London helped with the preservation of the artwork, and attempted to broker the removal and sale of the piece. However the artwork was painted onto a Grade II listed building - 153-159 Fairview Road - and the council prevented it from being removed, giving it"
"mural, painted in May 2017, by the secretive graffiti artist [[Banksy]] near the ferry port at [[Dover]] in southern [[England]]. It shows a workman using a chisel to chip off one of the stars on the [[European Union Flag]]. In his 2017 art exhibition at the [[Serpentine Gallery]] in London, the artist [[Grayson Perry]] showed a series of ceramic, tapestry and other works of art dealing with the divisions in Britain during the Brexit campaign and in its aftermath. This included two large ceramic pots, Perry called his ""Brexit Vases,"" standing on plinths ten feet apart, on the first of"
"less time it took to complete a work. He claims he changed to stencilling while hiding from the police under a rubbish lorry, when he noticed the stencilled serial number and by employing this technique, he soon became more widely noticed for his art around Bristol and London. He was the goalkeeper for the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls football team in the 1990s, and toured with the club to Mexico in 2001. Banksy's first known large wall mural was ""The Mild Mild West"" painted in 1997 to cover advertising of a former solicitors' office on Stokes Croft in Bristol. It"
"music videos, arguing that real-world experience of graffiti stood far removed from its often-portrayed 'cool' or 'edgy' image. To back the campaign, 123 MPs (including then Prime Minister Tony Blair), signed a charter which stated: ""Graffiti is not art, it's crime. On behalf of my constituents, I will do all I can to rid our community of this problem."" However, since the early 1990s, the British graffiti scene has been struck by self-titled ""art terrorist"" Banksy, who has revolutionized the style of UK graffiti (bringing to the forefront stencils to aid the speed of painting), as well as the content;"
"London, though, mostly painted over, none of the works by Banksy are remaining. A 2004 version of the mural was at an east London shop in Shoreditch, sold in 2007 for £37,200 at Sotheby's, and was removed by the Sincura Group in 2014 and sold for £500,000 in September 19 2015. Several sets of limited edition prints of the work were produced, which became valuable over time. An initial set of 25 signed prints was produced in 2003, while a set of 150 signed prints and a set of 600 unsigned prints were produced in 2004/2005. In November 2015, one"
"from Eurostar to Network Rail and through traffic was restricted to pedestrians. Leake Street Leake Street (also known as the Banksy Tunnel) is a road tunnel in Lambeth, London where graffiti is tolerated regardless of the legal complications. The street is about 300 metres long, runs off York Road and under the platforms and tracks of Waterloo station. The walls are decorated with graffiti, initially created during the Cans Festival organised by Banksy on 3–5 May 2008. The festival ran again on the August Bank Holiday weekend 2008. While the Eurostar terminal was at Waterloo, the road was open for"
"he adopted the use of stencils in order to accelerate the creative process and reduce the likelihood of being caught. His works generally appear anonymously and overnight. Banksy has written that 'graffiti…is the most honest artform available. There is no elitism or hype … nobody is put off by the price of admission. A wall has always been the best place to publish your work'. Melbourne is recognised as the street art capital of Australia. Banksy, who spent a few months in the city earlier in his career, described the city's street art as 'arguably Australia's most significant contribution to"
"Leake Street Leake Street (also known as the Banksy Tunnel) is a road tunnel in Lambeth, London where graffiti is tolerated regardless of the legal complications. The street is about 300 metres long, runs off York Road and under the platforms and tracks of Waterloo station. The walls are decorated with graffiti, initially created during the Cans Festival organised by Banksy on 3–5 May 2008. The festival ran again on the August Bank Holiday weekend 2008. While the Eurostar terminal was at Waterloo, the road was open for through vehicular traffic. On 14 November 2008 ownership of the road passed"