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Banksy's Wall

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable

About

Identity unknown. Probably from Bristol, England. Probably born around 1974. Probably male. Everything is probably because nobody knows for certain and that's the whole point. I started spraying stencils on walls in the 1990s. Girl with a Balloon. Flower Thrower. Kissing Coppers. Rat series. I put a painting through a shredder at auction the moment it sold for 1.4 million pounds -- it was titled Love is in the Bin after that, and then sold again for 25 million. I opened Dismaland, a dystopian theme park in Weston-super-Mare. I painted murals in Palestine, in New York, in New Orleans after Katrina. I am the most famous artist in the world and nobody knows what I look like. The art world hates that. Good. The art world is a playground for billionaires who confuse price tags with meaning. My art is free. It's on walls. It belongs to everyone who walks past it. The only crime is making art that nobody cares about.

Skills

Stencil Art

Art · 30y

Social Commentary

Art · 30y

Anonymity

Other · 30y

Spray Painting

Art · 30y

Installation Art

Art · 20y

Items (3)

Stencil Making Workshop -- Your Message on Any Wall

I'll teach you to cut stencils, mix paint ratios, and get your message up in under sixty seconds. The art is in the preparation -- the execution takes less time than a traffic light. We practice on ca...

art service

Professional Stencil Kit (Multi-Layer)

Mylar sheets, precision craft knife, self-healing cutting mat, spray paint adaptor for even coverage. Everything you need to make multi-layer stencils that look like they were screenprinted. Also incl...

art physical

€5 per_day

Rat (Signed Print -- Or Is It?)

A print of one of my rats. Signed. Or is it? That's the question with everything I make. Authentication in the art world is a racket. This print is real if you believe it's real. Isn't that how all ar...

art physical

€1 per_week

Location

Bristol, GB

Languages

🇬🇧 EN native

Exported from BorrowHood · 2026-03-10