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What We Do In Life Echoes in Eternity This artwork belongs to the fourteenth day of Better Out Than In, the residency Banksy carried out in New York in October 2013. For a whole month, the... Read more

If At First You Don’t Succeed – Call an Airstrike At first glance, the text on this piece looks like a familiar motivational saying: if at first you don’t succeed, try again. Banksy changes the second... Read more

Graffiti Area This piece appeared in 2003 in Shoreditch, east London, in the courtyard of the Cargo Nightclub on Rivington Street. It is one of Banksy’s cleverest jobs of turning bureaucratic language into his own weapon.... Read more

Mild Mild West We are in 1997, on the outside wall of a former massage parlour in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol. Banksy was still right at the start of his career when he left... Read more

I Want To Be What You Saw In Me This piece is one of Banksy’s most personal known works, and as such it stands as an exception within the artist’s entire body of work.   It... Read more

Follow Your Dreams – Cancelled In 2010, in the South End neighbourhood of Boston, USA, local residents woke up one morning to find a new Banksy piece on their walls. The image had two parts. Above,... Read more

Graffiti is a Crime The phrase “Graffiti is a crime” is less the title of a single piece by Banksy than a slogan he has encountered repeatedly throughout his career, sometimes quoting it directly and sometimes... Read more

Demi Moore This piece, titled “Original Concept for Barely Legal Poster (After Demi Moore)”, grew out of the promotional image prepared for “Barely Legal”, the Los Angeles exhibition Banksy held in 2006 and one of the... Read more

Ozone Angel This piece is an elegy Banksy wrote for someone from his own community, and it is one of the rare works in his body of work that carries more grief than anger.   The... Read more

Elephant in The Room In September 2006, in an abandoned warehouse in Los Angeles, during Banksy’s exhibition “Barely Legal”, visitors were confronted with a scene that startled them completely. A real, living elephant stood in the... Read more