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Banksy

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by Will Ellsworth-Jones


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  Rivington Street, London exhibition ref1

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  Rock Steady Crew ref1

  Ronald McDonald ref1

  Rowdy ref1

  Rude Copper ref1

  The Rude Lord ref1, ref2

  Ruined Landscape ref1

  Run-DMC ref1

  Saatchi Gallery ref1, ref2, ref3

  Sachs, Gunter ref1

  St Paul’s riots ref1, ref2

  Salin, Daniel ref1, ref2

  Samuel, David ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

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  Santa’s Ghetto ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Sapong, Johnnie ref1

  Sawyer, Miranda ref1

  Schiff, Evan ref1

  Schiller, Marc ref1, ref2, ref3

  Schnack, A.J. ref1, ref2

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  See No Evil festival ref1

  Sekree, Keith ref1, ref2

  Self-Portrait ref1

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  Severnshed restaurant, Bristol exhibition ref1

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  Stop and Search ref1

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  Tai the elephant ref1, ref2

  Take ref1

  Tate Britain ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Tate Modern ref1, ref2, ref3

  Tavia D ref1, ref2, ref3

  Teach ref1

  Team Banksy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Thompson, Ben ref1

  throw up ref1

  Timberlake, Justin ref1

  TMP Enterprises ref1

  Toaster Movement ref1

  Todd, Simon ref1

  Top Gear ref1

  Tox ref1, ref2

  ‘toy’ ref1, ref2, ref3

  train pieces ref1, ref2, ref3

  Triumph GT6 ref1

  Truman Brewery site, London ref1

  Turf War ref1, ref2, ref3

  Turf War exhibition ref1, ref2, ref3

  Turlington, Christy ref1

  Turner Prize ref1, ref2, ref3

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  Tweety Pie ref1

  Twombly, Cy ref1

  Unangst, Joel ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

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  urban art ref1, ref2

  Vandalised Phone Box ref1

  Vanina Holasek gallery, New York ref1

  Vermin ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Very Little Helps ref1, ref2

  Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) ref1, ref2, ref3

  The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill exhibition, New York ref1, ref2

  voice distortion devices ref1

  Voina ref1

  Von Teese, Dita ref1

  Walborn, Derek ref1

  Walker, Nick ref1, ref2

  Walker, Phil ref1, ref2, ref3

  Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool ref1

  Wall and Piece ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

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  Wall Paintings Workshop ref1

  Wallinger, Mark ref1

  walls and other surfaces, trade in ref1, ref2

  Walls on Fire graffiti festival ref1

  Warhol, Andy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

  website (Banksy) ref1

  Wellard, Nathan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Wells Fargo Bank ref1

  West Bank wall, Israel ref1, ref2, ref3

  Weston-super-Mare ref1

  Wet Dog ref1

  What? ref1

  White, Jez ref1

  wildstyle ref1

  Williams, Gareth ref1

  Wilson, William ref1

  Wolfe, Tom ref1

  Wood, Paul ref1

  World of Vintage T-Shirts ref1

  Worster, Martin ref1, ref2

  Wright, Frank Lloyd ref1

  Wright, Richard ref1, ref2, ref3

  Wright, Steve ref1

  Xens ref1

  yarn stormers ref1

  Yorkshire farm gate and duck shed wall ref1, ref2, ref3

  Young People’s Sexual Health Clinic, Bristol ref1

  Z-Boys ref1

  Zhang, Ziyi ref1

  Zomby ref1, ref2

  List of Illustrations

  Venue magazine reporting on Barton Hill Youth Club which John Nation had turned into the home of graffiti in Bristol. Courtesy of Neil Clark

  A wall of the Youth Club before graffiti writers had got to work. Courtesy of Neil Clark; Courtesy of Cheo

  A wall of the Youth Club after graffiti writers had got to work. Courtesy of Neil Clark; Courtesy of Cheo

  Bristol graffiti artist, Inkie, painting at the World Graffiti art competition in 1989 – he and his fellow painter Cheo came second. Courtesy of Cheo

  Banksy, with the DJ on the left and Inkie with classic graffiti lettering on the right, collaborated on this piece in St Paul’s, Bristol in 1999.

  Two panels from Walls on Fire, a graffiti exhibition organised by Banksy and Inkie in 1998 using 400 metres of hoardings around building work at Bristol harbour. The second piece is by Inkie.

  Banksy’s Mild Mild West won a poll to find an alternative landmark for Bristol. It has been splattered in paint but not destroyed. John Mills/Rex Features

  The front of the travelling fairground ride, Mystic Swing, painted by Dave ‘W.E.T.’ Panit and Banksy in 2000. Panit painted his section by day and Banksy used a headtorch to paint at night. Courtesy of Mark Walton (tmunki)

  A punk having trouble with the instructions on a wall near the IKEA store in Croydon. The wall was cut out by two Banksy fans who have turned down an offer of £240,000 for it. © JCB-Images/Alamy

  PRICK painted on a boarded up shop in Liverpool. Bought for £500 and sold for around £200,000 in New York although never authenticated by Banksy. William Fallows

  A Banksy placard-holding rat near the Barbican arts centre in London. The placard was later transformed by Team Robbo to read ‘I love London’. Nicholas Baily/Rex Features; Author’s Collection

  Banksy’s piece on a Sexual Health Clinic for Young People in Bristol. In a referendum organised by the council 93 per cent of those who voted said it should be allowed to stay. David Beauchamp/Rex Features

  Sunrise at Boghenge, Banksy’s contribution to Glastonbury 2007. He borrowed the portaloos from Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis and set them up in the Sacred Space field. Some of them later appeared at the entrance to his exhibition in Bristol. David Pearson/Rex Features

  The first edition of The Observer Music Monthly magazine: Blur are photographed in front of the wall of a farmer’s barn which Banksy had decorated with a tv being thrown out of a window in classic rock star fash
ion. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2003; Photographer Claudia Janke

  A crumpled red telephone box, complete with pickaxe, which Banksy placed in Soho. It was later sold at a charity auction in New York for $605,000. Rex Features

  Banksy painted this homage to Tesco on the side of a chemist’s shop in Essex Road, Islington in 2008. Although the children were later protected by plastic the piece has since been irretrievably defaced. Jeff Blackler/Rex Features

  The various painted animals at Banksy’s Turf War exhibition in 2003 caused animal rights protestors to object which in turn gained the exhibition more publicity. Alex Sudea/Rex Features

  Tai, a 38-year-old elephant painted (in nontoxic paint) by Banksy, became one of the stars of his 2006 Los Angeles sell-out show, Barely Legal. B Kvartuc/Keystone USA/Rex Features

  Banksy’s Santa’s Ghetto in Oxford Street, 2006; the ghetto has become an annual event around Christmas selling Banksy and other artists’ work. Ray Tang/Rex Features

  A sign at the entrance to Leake Street, underneath Waterloo’s railway tracks. Banksy rented this tunnel for a festival of street artists from around the world. Author’s Collection

  An Israeli soldier gets frisked by a young girl; painted on a wall in Bethlehem, the wall was shipped across to New York where it awaits a buyer. © Dan De Kleined/Alamy

  Maeve Neale and Nathan Wellard stand in front of their home, an articulated lorry that Banksy painted at Glastonbury. Albanpix Ltd/Rex Features

  The queue for the Banksy exhibition in Bristol. It was the second most visited exhibition in Britain in 2009, just beaten by the Saatchi Gallery, and at peak times it could take four hours to get in. Barry Batchelor/PA Wire

  Crowds file past Banksy’s ice cream van at the start of their visit to his exhibition at the Bristol City Museum. Jeff Blackler/Rex Features

  How Bristol embraced graffiti. The See No Evil street art exhibition in the city, organised by Inkie with the help of £40,000 from the city council, turned a depressing street in the city centre into one of the world’s largest outdoor art exhibitions. PA Images

  Rats in New York, two of four huge walls painted by Colossal Media following Banksy’s design at the time of his Pet Shop exhibition in the city in the autumn of 2008. Courtesy of Colossal Media

  Two animatronic chicken nuggets feed themselves at the Village Pet Store, the three-week exhibition that Banksy opened in New York in 2008. Dima Gavrysh/Rex Features

  Banksy’s artwork at Park City, home of the Sundance Film Festival, has been preserved behind plexiglass. Marcocchi Guilio/SIPA/Rex Features

  Painted in the derelict Packard motor plant in Detroit; never authenticated but taken away to be put as a key exhibit in a new art gallery. © 2010 detroitfunk.com

  Murder Mile by Pure Evil painted in a site waiting redevelopment in north London. Author’s Coll

  Wall Street’s charging bull that graffiti crochet artist Olek managed to cover up nicely in an extraordinary piece of crocheting. Her work lasted only a couple of hours before it was cut off. Work by Olek; Image courtesy of Jonathan LeVine Gallery

  Graffiti artist Ben Eine’s piece in Hackney, painted after David Cameron had surprised Eine and many others by selecting a work of his to give to President Obama on his first official visit to Washington. Artofthestate

  Haywain with Cruise Missiles (1980), Peter Kennard’s detourned version of Constable’s famous scene, bought by the Tate in 2007. © Peter Kennard

  Graffiti for London by David Samuel. The tube map’s station names have been replaced by the names of the city’s top graffiti writers from 1980-2000 placed at the stop closest to where they were from. Rarekind London

  Some of the 120 fake Banksy prints discovered by the Metropolitan Police during their investigation into two men convicted of forging Banksys. © Metropolitan Police

  A pouting girl holding an Oscar painted on a wall in Weston-super-Mare shortly after Banksy failed to win an Oscar for his film. Hailed as a new Banksy it later turned out to be a fake. SWNS

  This image was painted by Team Robbo as part of the ongoing war between Robbo and Banksy over a wall beside the Regent’s Canal near Camden Lock. Like others before it the image did not last long before Banksy, in turn, painted over it. © LouisBerk.com

  Thierry Guetta or Mr Brainwash, star of Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop in front of one of his Charlie Chaplin Pink which sold for $122,500 at auction in New York in 2010. AlamyCelebrity/Alamy

  A wall in Camden with a piece believed to be Banksy in support of Tox, a graffiti artist jailed for twenty-seven months in 2011 for offences stretching back to 2000. London News Service/Rex Features

  Cardinal Sin, a work given by Banksy on permanent loan to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He implied that it was a comment on the cases of children abused by Catholic priests. Mark Sumner/Rex Features

  A well-hooded Banksy, with his voice disguised, facing the camera in his film Exit Through the Gift Shop. C. Everett Collection/Rex Features

  Venue magazine reporting on Barton Hill Youth Club which John Nation had turned into the home of graffiti in Bristol. Courtesy of Neil Clark

  A wall of the Youth Club before graffiti writers had got to work. Courtesy of Neil Clark; Courtesy of Cheo

  A wall of the Youth Club after graffiti writers had got to work. Courtesy of Neil Clark; Courtesy of Cheo

  Bristol graffiti artist, Inkie, painting at the World Graffiti art competition in 1989 – he and his fellow painter Cheo came second. Courtesy of Cheo

  Banksy, with the DJ on the left and Inkie with classic graffiti lettering on the right, collaborated on this piece in St Paul’s, Bristol in 1999.

  Two panels from Walls on Fire, a graffiti exhibition organised by Banksy and Inkie in 1998 using 400 metres of hoardings around building work at Bristol harbour. The second piece is by Inkie.

  Banksy’s Mild Mild West won a poll to find an alternative landmark for Bristol. It has been splattered in paint but not destroyed. John Mills/Rex Features

  The front of the travelling fairground ride, Mystic Swing, painted by Dave ‘W.E.T.’ Panit and Banksy in 2000. Panit painted his section by day and Banksy used a headtorch to paint at night. Courtesy of Mark Walton (tmunki)

  A punk having trouble with the instructions on a wall near the IKEA store in Croydon. The wall was cut out by two Banksy fans who have turned down an offer of £240,000 for it. © JCB-Images/Alamy

  PRICK painted on a boarded up shop in Liverpool. Bought for £500 and sold for around £200,000 in New York although never authenticated by Banksy. William Fallows

  A Banksy placard-holding rat near the Barbican arts centre in London. The placard was later transformed by Team Robbo to read ‘I love London’. Nicholas Baily/Rex Features; Author’s Collection

  Banksy’s piece on a Sexual Health Clinic for Young People in Bristol. In a referendum organised by the council 93 per cent of those who voted said it should be allowed to stay. David Beauchamp/Rex Features

  Sunrise at Boghenge, Banksy’s contribution to Glastonbury 2007. He borrowed the portaloos from Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis and set them up in the Sacred Space field. Some of them later appeared at the entrance to his exhibition in Bristol. David Pearson/Rex Features

  The first edition of The Observer Music Monthly magazine: Blur are photographed in front of the wall of a farmer’s barn which Banksy had decorated with a tv being thrown out of a window in classic rock star fashion. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2003; Photographer Claudia Janke

  A crumpled red telephone box, complete with pickaxe, which Banksy placed in Soho. It was later sold at a charity auction in New York for $605,000. Rex Features

  Banksy painted this homage to Tesco on the side of a chemist’s shop in Essex Road, Islington in 2008. Although the children were later protected by plastic the piece has since been irretrievably defaced. Jeff Blackler/Rex Features

  The various painted animals at Banksy’s Turf War exhibition in 2003 caused animal rights protestors to object which in
turn gained the exhibition more publicity. Alex Sudea/Rex Features

  Tai, a 38-year-old elephant painted (in nontoxic paint) by Banksy, became one of the stars of his 2006 Los Angeles sell-out show, Barely Legal. B Kvartuc/Keystone USA/Rex Features

  Banksy’s Santa’s Ghetto in Oxford Street, 2006; the ghetto has become an annual event around Christmas selling Banksy and other artists’ work. Ray Tang/Rex Features

  A sign at the entrance to Leake Street, underneath Waterloo’s railway tracks. Banksy rented this tunnel for a festival of street artists from around the world. Author’s Collection

  An Israeli soldier gets frisked by a young girl; painted on a wall in Bethlehem, the wall was shipped across to New York where it awaits a buyer. © Dan De Kleined/Alamy

  Maeve Neale and Nathan Wellard stand in front of their home, an articulated lorry that Banksy painted at Glastonbury. Albanpix Ltd/Rex Features

  The queue for the Banksy exhibition in Bristol. It was the second most visited exhibition in Britain in 2009, just beaten by the Saatchi Gallery, and at peak times it could take four hours to get in. Barry Batchelor/PA Wire

  Crowds file past Banksy’s ice cream van at the start of their visit to his exhibition at the Bristol City Museum. Jeff Blackler/Rex Features

  How Bristol embraced graffiti. The See No Evil street art exhibition in the city, organised by Inkie with the help of £40,000 from the city council, turned a depressing street in the city centre into one of the world’s largest outdoor art exhibitions. PA Images

  Rats in New York, two of four huge walls painted by Colossal Media following Banksy’s design at the time of his Pet Shop exhibition in the city in the autumn of 2008. Courtesy of Colossal Media

 

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