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Christ With Shopping Bags

Christ With Shopping Bags London, 2004 Christ With Shopping Bags is Banksy’s screen-print critiquing consumerism. The work served as a manifesto against the commercialisation of Christmas. At the centre of the piece, against a grey background,... Read more

Lenin on Rollerblades

Lenin on Rollerblades London, 2003 Lenin on Rollerblades (Who Put the Revolution on Ice?) appeared in 2003 in London as Banksy’s politically satirical spray-paint-on-canvas series. In the work, revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin skates on Nike-logo rollerblades,... Read more

Turf War

Turf War London, 2003 The artist reinterpreted Winston Churchill’s iconic portrait taken by Yousuf Karsh in 1941. The work was first exhibited at Banksy’s first major solo exhibition, which bore the same name; Turf War.  ... Read more

Girl With Balloon

Girl With Baloon Waterloo Bridge, London, 2002 ‘There is always hope.’   These words accompany Girl with Balloon, one of Banksy’s most iconic and emotionally resonant works. First created in 2002 as a stencil mural near... Read more

Space Girl With Bird

Space Girl With Bird London, 2003 Space Girl and Bird appeared in 2003 in London. The work is executed in spray paint on industrial metal sheet and addresses the isolation created by technology. At the centre... Read more

Banksy on Ukraine

Banksy in Ukraine Ukraine, 2022 On November 14, 2022, Banksy confirmed that he had created seven murals in Ukraine’s war-torn regions. These artworks emerged in cities like Kyiv, Irpin, and Borodyanka, deeply scarred by the Russian... Read more

I Want to Meet My True Love

I Want to Meet My True Love Los Angeles, 2006 It appeared in 2006 in Los Angeles at the one night pop-up exhibition Barely Legal. The work is known through reproduction prints because the original is... Read more

The Separation Barrier & Banksy’s Bethlehem Murals

The Separation Barrier & Banksy’s Bethlehem Murals Bethlehem, West Bank, 2005 Banksy’s numerous murals painted on the Separation Barrier in Bethlehem in 2005 offer a powerful artistic response to the controversial structure’s physical and symbolic impacts,... Read more

Draw The Raised Bridge

Draw The Raised Bridge Hull, 2018 Draw The Raised Bridge appeared on 26 January 2018 on Scott Street Bridge in Hull, England. The work references Hull’s historical resistance during the 1642 Siege, symbolising peaceful protest and... Read more

Dismaland

Dismaland Weston-super-Mare, 2015 Dismaland appeared in 2015 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England as Banksy’s largest pop-up art project. The exhibition was set up in the abandoned Tropicana lido and opened on 21 August, closing on 27 September,... Read more