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anksy 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

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he 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

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ai, 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.
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anksy’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

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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

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n 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

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

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he 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

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rowds 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

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ow 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

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ats 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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wo 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

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

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ainted 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

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

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all 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

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raffiti 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

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

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raffiti 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

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

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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

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his 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

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hierry 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

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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

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ardinal 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

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

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

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

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

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

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anksy, 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.

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