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Banksy is a well-known pseudo-anonymous^[1] English graffiti artist. He is believed to be a native of Yate (near Bristol^[1]) and born in 1974,^[2] but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details.^[3] According to Tristan Manco, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier engineer, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s."^[4] His artworks are often-satirical pieces of art that encompass topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti with a distinctive stencilling technique, has appeared in London and in cities around the world.^[5] Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Graffiti (disambiguation). ... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... This article is about the English city. ... Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject (individuals, organizations, states) often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, in the streets — though the term usually refers to art of an illicit nature, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. ... Visual diagram of a basic stencil. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Career

Anarchist rat by Banksy

An example of Banksy's artwork on the Palestinian side of the Israeli West Bank barrier.

Naked Man image by Banksy, on the wall of a sexual health clinic 1in Park Street, Bristol, England. Following popular support, the City Council have decided it will be allowed to remain - ( wider view).

Stencil by Banksy on the waterline of The Thekla, an entertainment boat in central Bristol, England - ( wider view).

Banksy art in Brick Lane, East End, 2004.

A stencil of Charles Manson in a prison suit, hitchhiking to anywhere, Archway, London

Banksy on Pulp Fiction. Image since removed by graffiti cleanup crews.

Banksy on Pulp Fiction again.

Banksy started as a freehand graffiti artist in the late 1980s as one of Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ), often assisting writers Kato and Tes.^[6] In 1998 he arranged the enormous "Walls On Fire" graffiti jam along with fellow Bristol graffiti legend Inkie on the site of the future "@t Bristol" development.^[7] The weekend long event drew artists from all over the UK and Europe and his organisation of the event established his name within the European graffiti scene. By 2000 he had turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a "piece". He claims he changed to stencilling whilst he was hiding from the police under a train carriage,^[8] and soon became more widely noticed for his art around Bristol and London.^[8] Image File history File links Banksy-rat. ... Image File history File links Banksy-rat. ... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ... Species 50 species; see text *Several subfamilies of Muroids include animals called rats. ... Image File history File links Rockboy. ... Image File history File links Rockboy. ... The barrier route as of July 2006. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 364 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (506 × 834 pixels, file size: 136 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 364 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (506 × 834 pixels, file size: 136 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU... The Wills Memorial Building Park Street in Bristol runs from College Green, Bristol up a steep incline northwards to join Park Row at the southern apex of the Clifton Triangle. ... This article is about the English city. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2118x1549, 935 KB) An art work by Banksy, at the bottom of Park Street, Bristol, England. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (994x742, 622 KB) An art work by Banksy, on the Thekla Social entertainment boat, central Bristol, England. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (994x742, 622 KB) An art work by Banksy, on the Thekla Social entertainment boat, central Bristol, England. ... Vivian and Ki in the hold, early days The Old Profanity Showboat was a late 1982 middle-of-the-night brainchild of Ki Longfellow-Stanshall, the wife of Vivian Stanshall, one of Englands national treasures. ... This article is about the English city. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1831x1308, 1634 KB) Thekla in 2005, moored at The Grove, East Mud Dock, Bristol, England. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Brick Lane is a street in the East End of London and heart of the citys Bangladeshi community. ... The term East End is most commonly used to refer to the East End of London. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1920x2560, 2577 KB) Description: graffiti by Banksy, Hitchhiker to anywhere, Archway, London. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1920x2560, 2577 KB) Description: graffiti by Banksy, Hitchhiker to anywhere, Archway, London. ... Charles Milles Manson (b. ... , Archway is an area of north London in the London Borough of Islington. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Pulp Fiction is an Academy Award-winning 1994 film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote the screenplay with Roger Avary. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,860 × 2,790 pixels, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,860 × 2,790 pixels, file size: 2. ... Pulp Fiction is an Academy Award-winning 1994 film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote the screenplay with Roger Avary. ...

Banksy's stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist, anti-establishment or pro-freedom. Subjects include animals such as monkeys and rats, policemen, soldiers, children and the elderly. He also makes stickers (the Neighbourhood Watch subvert) and sculpture (the murdered phonebox), and was responsible for the cover art of Blur's 2003 album Think Tank. Blur are an English rock band formed in Colchester in 1989. ... Think Tank is the seventh studio album by English rock band Blur, released on May 5, 2003 in the United Kingdom and on May 6 in the United States. ...

2003

• In 2003 in a show called "Turf War", held in a warehouse, he painted on animals. Although the RSPCA declared the conditions suitable, an animal rights activist chained herself to the railings in protest.^[9]

He has moved on to producing subverted paintings; one example is Monet's Water Lily Pond, adapted to include urban detritus such as litter and a shopping trolley floating in its reflective waters, another is Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, redrawn to show that the characters are looking at an English 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 exhibited at a twelve day exhibition in Westbourne Grove, London in 2005.^[10] The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is a charity in England and Wales that promotes animal welfare. ... For the version control system, see Subversion (software). ... Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926), French impressionist painter. ... A shopping cart/trolley A shopping cart (also called a buggy, or a trolley in British English; sometimes referred to as a carriage or shopping carriage in the U.S. region of New England) is a cart supplied by a shop, especially a supermarket, for use by customers inside the... Nighthawks. ... This article is about the painting by Edward Hopper. ... Union Jack redirects here. ...

2004

• In August 2004, Banksy produced a quantity of spoof British £10 notes substituting Princess Diana's head for the Queen's and changing "Bank of England" to "Banksy of England".* SEE PHOTO Someone threw a large wad of these into a crowd at Notting Hill Carnival that year which some recipients then tried to spend in local shops. These notes were also given with invitations to a picturesonwalls.com Santas Ghetto exhibition. The individual notes have since been selling on eBay for about £200 each. A Limited run of 50 signed posters containing 10 uncut notes were also produced and sold by pictures on walls for £100 each to commemorate the death of Princess Diana. One of these sold in May 2007 on eBay for $35,000.
• Banksy decorated a corridor in The Carlton Arms hotel in NYC.^{[citation needed]}

2006

• In 2006, Banksy held an exhibition called Barely Legal, billed as a "three day vandalised warehouse extravaganza" in Los Angeles on the weekend of 16 September. The exhibition featured a live "elephant in a room", painted in a pink and gold floral wallpaper pattern.^[11]
• After Christina Aguilera bought an original of Queen Victoria as a lesbian and two prints for £25,000,^[12] on 19 October 2006 a set of Kate Moss paintings sold in Sotheby's London for £50,400, setting an auction record for Banksy's work. The six silk-screen prints, featuring the model painted in the style of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pictures, sold for five times its estimated value. His stencil of a green Mona Lisa with paint dripping from her eyes sold for £57,600 at the same auction.^[13]

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2007

• On 7 February 2007, Sotheby's auction house in London auctioned three Banksy works and reached the highest ever price for a Banksy work at auction of over £102,000 for his 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 estimate prices.^[14] The following day's auction saw a further three Banksy works reach soaring prices. Ballerina With Action Man Parts reached £96,000 whilst Glory sold for £72,000 and Untitled (2004) sold for £33,600 - all three auctions sold way over expected estimates.^[15] To coincide with the second day of auctions, Banksy updated his website front home page with a new image of an auction house scene with people bidding on a picture that said, "I Can't Believe You Morons Actually Buy This Shit."^[16]

• In February 2007, the owners of a house with a Banksy mural on the side in Bristol decided to sell the house through an art gallery after offers fell through because the prospective buyers wanted to remove the mural. It is listed as a mural which comes with a house attached.^[17]

• In April 2007, Transport for London painted over Banksy's iconic image of a scene from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, with Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta clutching bananas instead of guns. Although the image was very popular, Transport for London claimed that the "graffiti" created a general atmosphere of neglect and social decay which in turn encourages crime.^[18]

• On April 27th 2007, a new record high for the sale of Banksy's work was set with the auction of the work 'Space Girl & Bird' fetching £288,000 ($576,000), around 20 times the estimate at Bonhams of London.^[19] On the 21st May 2007 Banksy gained the award for Art's Greatest living Briton, Banksy as expected did not turn up to collect his award and continued with his notoriously anonymous status.

• Banksy has recently made a tribute art piece over his famous Pulp Fiction piece. The tribute was for English graffiti artist OZONE, who was hit by an underground train in Barking, east London along with a fellow artist WANTS, on January 12th 2007. The art piece was of an angel wearing a bulletproof vest, holding a skull. He also wrote a note on his website, saying:

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When we lost Ozone we lost a fearless graffiti writer and as it turns out a pretty perceptive art critic.

Ozone - rest in piece."

Ozone died at the age of 19.

A picture of the art piece, along with the note, can be seen on Banksy's official website.

Banksy has published a "manifesto" on his website.^[20] The text of the manifesto is credited as the diary entry of one Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin, DSO, which is exhibited in the Imperial War Museum. It describes how a shipment of lipstick to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after its liberation at the end of World War II helped the internees regain their humanity. Look up manifesto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In the U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps, a lieutenant colonel is a commissioned officer superior to a major and inferior to a colonel. ... DSO medal The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other Commonwealth countries, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat. ... The Imperial War Museum is a museum in London featuring military vehicles, weapons, war memorabilia, a library, a photographic archive, and an art collection of 20th century and later conflicts, especially those involving Britain, and the British Empire. ... Lipstick is a cosmetic product containing pigments, oils, waxes, and emollients that applies color and texture to the lips. ... dont you know this is bad info This article is about the Nazi concentration camp. ... It has been suggested that Internment be merged into this article or section. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

A small number of Banksy's works can be seen in the movie Children of Men including a stenciled image of two policemen kissing, and another stencil of a child looking down a shop. Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian science fiction film co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. ...

Proclaimed Art Pieces

In addition to his artwork, Banksy has claimed responsibility for a number of high profile art pieces, including the following:

• At London Zoo, he climbed into the penguin enclosure and painted "We're bored of fish" in seven foot high letters.
• At Bristol Zoo, he left the message 'I want out. This place is too cold. Keeper smells. Boring, boring, boring.' in the elephant enclosure.
• In January 2001, he travelled to the areas controlled by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico, and in sign of solidarity with their movement, painted murals with scenes depicting the struggle and also made stencils on the walls of San Cristóbal de las Casas.^{[citation needed]}
• In March 2005, he placed subverted artworks in the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.^[21]
• He put up a subverted painting in London's Tate Britain gallery.
• In May 2005 Banksy's version of a primitive cave painting depicting a human figure hunting wildlife whilst pushing a shopping trolley was found hanging in the British Museum, London. Upon discovery, the museum added it to their permanent collection.^[22]
• Banksy has sprayed "This is not a photo opportunity" on certain photograph spots.
• In August 2005, Banksy painted nine images on the Israeli West Bank barrier, including an image of a ladder going up and over the wall and an image of children digging a hole through the wall.^[23][24]
• In April 2006, Banksy created a sculpture based on a crumpled red phone box with a pickaxe in its side, apparently bleeding, and placed it in a street in Soho, London. It was later removed by Westminster Council. BT released a press release, which said: "This is a stunning visual comment on BT's transformation from an old-fashioned telecommunications company into a modern communications services provider."^[25]
• In June 2006, Banksy created an image of a naked man hanging out of a bedroom window on a wall in central Bristol. The image sparked some controversy, with the Bristol City Council leaving it up to the public to decide whether it should stay or go.^[26] After an internet discussion in which 97% (all but 6 people) supported the stencil, the city council decided it would be left on the building.^[26]
• In August/September 2006, Banksy replaced up to 500 copies of Paris Hilton's debut CD, Paris, in 48 different UK record stores with his own cover art and remixes by Danger Mouse. Music tracks were given titles such as "Why am I Famous?", "What Have I Done?" and "What Am I For?". Several copies of the CD were purchased by the public before stores were able to remove them, some going on to be sold for as much as £750 on online auction websites such as eBay. The cover art depicted Paris Hilton digitally altered to appear topless. Other pictures feature her with a dog's head replacing her own, and one of her stepping out of a luxury car, edited to include a group of homeless people, which included the caption "90% of success is just showing up".^[27][28][29]
• In September 2006, Banksy dressed an inflatable doll in the manner of a Guantanamo Bay detainment camp prisoner (orange jumpsuit, black hood, and handcuffs) and then placed the figure within the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California.^[30][31] More recently his work has appeared on Melrose.^[32]

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Technique

Asked about his technique, Banksy said "I use whatever it takes. Sometimes that just means drawing a moustache on a girl's face on some billboard, sometimes that means sweating for days over an intricate drawing. Efficiency is the key".^[33]

Stencils are traditionally hand drawn or printed onto sheets of acetate or card, before being cut out by hand. Because of the secretive nature of Banksy's work and identity, it is uncertain what techniques he uses to generate the images in his stencils, though it is assumed he uses computers due to the photorealistic nature of much of his work.

Real identity

Banksy's real name may be Robert Banks.^{[34][35] [36]} Banksy's year of birth has been given as 1974.^[22] Simon Hattenstone from Guardian Unlimited is one of the very few people to have interviewed him face-to-face. Hattenstone describes him as "a cross of Jimmy Nail and British rapper Mike Skinner" and "a 28 year old male who showed up wearing jeans and a t-shirt with a silver tooth, silver chain, and one silver earring".^[37] Guardian Unlimited is a British website owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... Jimmy Nail is an English actor and singer (born March 16, 1954, Gleneagles Close, Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne). ... Mike Skinner (born November 27, 1978), more commonly known by his stage name The Streets, is a rapper from Birmingham, England. ...

The registrant of Banksy's website is Steve Lazarides, a photographer. Lazarides is Banksy's agent. Lazarides now has a gallery on Greek Street in London's Soho called Laz Inc, where Banksy originals can be bought. The website picturesonwalls.com has the exclusive sale rights for all of Banksy's limited edition prints. A photographer at the Calgary Folk Music Festival Paparazzi at the Tribeca Film Festival A photographer is a person who takes a photograph using a camera. ...

Banksy's parents think their son is a painter and decorator.^[38]

In May 2007, an extensive article written by Lauren Collins of the New Yorker re-opened the Banksy-identity controversy citing a 2004 photograph of the artist that was taken in Jamaica during the Two-Culture Clash project and later published in The Evening Standard^[39] in 2004. The Afflicted Yard, a website that documents Jamaican culture, created by Peter Dean Rickards, originally published the images, then sold them to The Evening Standard.

An October 2007 story on the BBC website features a photo allegedly taken by a passer-by in Bethnal Green, London, purporting to show Banksy at work with an assistant, scaffolding and a truck. The story confirms that Tower Hamlets Council in London has decided to treat all Banksy works as graffiti and remove them.^[40] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is the London borough to the east of the City of London, north of the River Thames in East London. ...

Controversy

Banksy's "Stonehenge" from portable toilets at the Glastonbury Festival, June 2007

Peter Gibson, a spokesperson for Keep Britain Tidy, asserts that Banksy's work is simple vandalism. The political purpose behind his 'vandalism' is reminiscent of the Ad Jammers or subvertising movement, who deface corporate advertising to change the intended message and hijack the advert.^{[citation needed]} Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 396 pixelsFull resolution‎ (2,561 × 1,268 pixels, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 396 pixelsFull resolution‎ (2,561 × 1,268 pixels, file size: 1. ... The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest[1] greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ... Keep Britain tidy is a British Campain run by the ENCAMS environmental charity, which is part funded by the U.K. government. ... Culture jamming is the act of transforming existing mass media to produce commentary about itself, using the original mediums communication method. ... A subvertisement based on the Coca-Cola logo Subvertising refers to the practice of making spoofs or parodies of corporate and political advertisements in order to make a statement. ...

Banksy gets paid for charity work (e.g., Greenpeace) and can demand up to £25,000 for canvases. It has also been alleged that Banksy has done paid work with corporations such as Puma^[41] although this has been denied.^{[citation needed]} Greenpeace protest against Esso / Exxon Mobil. ... For other uses, see Puma (disambiguation). ...

On 4 June, Stranger Magazine reported that Banksy's The Drinker had been stolen.^[42]

In June 2007 Banksy created a circle of plastic portable toilets, said to resemble Stonehenge at the Glastonbury Festival. As this was in the same field as the "sacred circle" which has always had a no plastic rule this was felt by many to be inappropriate and his installation was itself covered in graffiti before the festival even opened. For other uses, see Stonehenge (disambiguation). ... The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest[1] greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ...

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Reviews and comments

If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.

—Banksy, in The Independent^[44]

He does all this and he stays anonymous. I think that's great. These days everyone is trying to be famous. But he has anonymity.

—Brad Pitt, in The Independent^[44]

Banksy has never let the world know his real name – and he has never even posed for a photograph. Funny kind of celebrity. William Bradley Brad Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor, film producer, and social activist. ...

—Paul Vallely, The Independent^[44]

...he's often feted as a genius straddling the bleeding edge of now. Why? Because his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots. And apparently that'll do. Paul Vallely CMG is a leading British writer on Africa and development issues. ...

—Charlie Brooker, The Guardian^[45]

Charlie (Charlton) Brooker (born 3 March 1971) is a British comedy writer, cartoonist, reviewer and television presenter. ...

Bibliography

Banksy has also self-published several books that contain photos of his work in various countries as well as some of his canvas work and exhibitions, accompanied by his own writings. Self-publishing is the publishing of books or other media by those who have written them. ...

His first book, published in black-and-white, is Banging Your Head Against A Brick Wall followed by the full colour Existencilism. Black-and-white or black and white) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ...

In 2004 he published his third book, Cut it Out.

Random House published Wall and Piece in 2005. It contained a combination of images from his three previous books, as well as some new material.^[8] // Random House is a publishing house based in New York City. ...

In 2007 he plans to publish Wall's It All About and launch the book from a secret location in Central London.

References

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• Banksy's website
• BANKSY DI-FACED TENNERS
• Galleries of Banksy's work:
  • Many Banksy Pictures
  • Banksy work in Liverpool, 2004
  • ekosystem.org
  • Banksy on artofthestate
  • pbase.com search
  • Jon Marsh
• Locations of work
  • A Google Map of Banksy locations
  • Banksy Locations & Tours
• Maps and details of Banksy's works in Bristol
• Video report of Banksy in Palestine
• Article on Wall and Piece
• Video reportage of the 'Illusive Banksy'
• Art Attack from Wired
• Simon Hattenstone interviews Banksy
• Radio story about Banksy from U.S. public radio program 'Marketplace'
• Guardian article, 17 Sept 2006, about Banksy
• The London Paper video news clip, 1 March 2007, about Banksy exhibition in Knightsbridge
• BBC News article regarding Banksy mural being painted over in Bristol
• Banksy Piece
• "Banksy Was Here: the invisible man of graffiti art", The New Yorker, May 14 2007
• "I Am Banksy", Esquire, December 2005
• Complex Magazine : The New Yorker Helps Unveil Banksy: The Not-So-Invisible Man of Graffiti
• SWINDLE Magazine interview with BANKSY