Is Banksy finally going to be done for graffiti?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrq0r0y878o
About as close as you can get to sticking your fingers up to the establishment - but has he gone too far? I imagine there will be pressure to find a prosecute when he may have had some slack in the past?
About as close as you can get to sticking your fingers up to the establishment - but has he gone too far? I imagine there will be pressure to find a prosecute when he may have had some slack in the past?
t for them.biggbn said:
Who is he then?
From WikiIdentity
Banksy's name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. In a 2003 interview with Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, Banksy is described as "white, 28, scruffy casual—jeans, T-shirt, a silver tooth, silver chain and silver earring. He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of The Streets."[12] An ITV News segment of 2003 featured a short interview with someone identified in the reporting as Banksy.[13] Banksy began as an artist at the age of 14, was expelled from school, and served time in prison for petty crime. According to Hattenstone, "anonymity is vital to him because graffiti is illegal".[12] Banksy reportedly lived in Easton, Bristol, during the late 1990s, before moving to London around 2000.[14][15][16]
The Mail on Sunday claimed in 2008 that Banksy is Robin Gunningham,[17] born on 28 July 1974 in Yate, 12 miles (19 km) from Bristol.[18][19][14] Several of Gunningham's associates and former schoolmates at Bristol Cathedral School have corroborated this, and, in 2016, a study by researchers at the Queen Mary University of London using geographic profiling found that the incidence of Banksy's works correlated with the known movements of Gunningham.[20][21][22][23] According to The Sunday Times, Gunningham began employing the name Robin Banks, which eventually became Banksy. Two cassette sleeves featuring Banksy's art work from 1993, for the Bristol band Mother Samosa, exist with Gunningham's signature.[24] In June 2017, DJ Goldie referred to Banksy as "Rob" in an interview for a podcast.[25] In an interview with the BBC in 2003, which was rediscovered in November 2023, reporter Nigel Wrench asked if Banksy is called Robert Banks; Banksy responded that his forename is Robbie.[26]
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