Who Is Banksy?
Banksy previously believed to be one Robert or
Robin Banks and born in 1974/5 in Yate, Bristol.
He doesn't do interviews very often but was interviewed
in 2003 by Simon Hattenstone, a reporter for the
Guardian newspaper. He described banksy as looking
like a "cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike
Skinner of the Streets" and turning up wearing
scruffy casual jeans and t-shirt, sporting a silver
tooth, silver chain and silver earring.
Banksy started doing graffiti when he was 14
years old but admits "I was quite crap with
a spray can, so I started cutting out stencils
instead." He has come a long way since spraying
his tag on the walls of bristol. He changed his
stomping ground to Shoreditch in london where
you will find lots of his work on display, to
holding exhibitions in Los Angeles.
Banksy Unmasked
Banksy has supposedly been photographed
a few times but each photo appears to be a different
person to me so who knows?. The Picture to the
right appeared in The Evening Standard Newspaper
in 2004, and was supposedly taken by a Jamaican
photographer named Peter Dean Rickards.when banksy
flew to Kingston to work on a project.
Robin Gunningham
The Daily Mail recently ran a
story reporting that they believed Banksy to be
one Robin Gunningham, a former public schoolboy.
After a year long investigation the mail believe
they are as close to exposing his identity as
anyone has before. There are many similarities
in the life of Banksy and Robin Gunningham and
the story is given more credibility with the fact
that no one can trace Robin Gunningham.
See the story for yourself on
the Daily Mail website Here
(See other reported photos of Banksy in our gallery)
"According to Police statistics the average
graffiti writer is male, aged between 13 and 16,
and a virgin. Despite reports to the contrary
Banksy is not your average graffiti writer. Hailing
from the South West of England he describes his
artwork as "attacking the monotony of property
sloppily". Sources close to him describe
a "useless Bristolian alcoholic " with
no art school training who fell into his current
career by accident. His technique involves spraying
iconoclastic stenciled images on major city streets
by night. The style is Punk Rock dragged kicking
and screaming into the 21st Century. A unique
hybrid of the devious and the loveable."
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