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Insane Clown This piece is among the harshest of Banksy’s early canvas works, both in its scale and in the sentence it carries. Dated 2001, it is made with black spray paint and stencil technique on... Read more

Snorting Copper In 2005, a new Banksy piece appeared on the wall of a former public toilet building on Curtain Road in Shoreditch, East London. It showed a uniformed police officer crouching down, bent over as... Read more

Morning is Broken In March 2023, a new Banksy piece appeared at Blacksole Farm near the town of Herne Bay in Kent, England, on a boarded up window of an old farmhouse due for demolition. It... Read more

Kissing Coppers In the colourful, slightly rebellious streets of Brighton, you are looking at one of Banksy’s best loved and longest surviving works: Kissing Coppers.   This stencil, made in 2004 on the outside wall of... Read more

Royal Guard One of the most classic, most ceremonial symbols of the British monarchy: the Royal Guard in his red uniform and fur hat. When Banksy takes on this figure, as expected, he chooses parody over... Read more

I Love New York This piece starts from one of the most copied graphic designs in the world: the “I love NY” logo, built around a red heart, that Milton Glaser drew in 1977 for New... Read more

Burger King Kid This piece is painted in oils and emulsion on canvas. It shows a hungry, emaciated African child sitting with an empty bowl in front of him. On his head sits the familiar cardboard... Read more

Girl With Skipping Rope At first glance the scene looks entirely innocent. A little girl appears to be skipping rope. But nothing is ever what it seems in a Banksy image. Look closer and the “rope”... Read more

Umbrella Girl Sometimes a single image explains human failure better than the storm itself. That is exactly what this artwork does. A little girl holds an open umbrella above her head. But the umbrella is not... Read more

Avon and Somerset Constabulary Bristol, 2000-2001 Avon and Somerset Constabulary appeared in Bristol between 2000 and 2001 as one of Banksy’s early stencil works. The work exists in two colour variations, pink and blue background. At... Read more