The artwork painted behind a cut-back mature tree to look like foliage, with a stencil of a person holding a pressure hose next to it which you can view below, appeared on Finsbury Park’s Hornsey Road yesterday (March 17).
Proud new caretakers of an apparent new #Banksy piece in Finsbury Park… Woke up this morning to it on the side of flat 🤣
You can just about see us smiling proudly on our balcony ♥️ pic.twitter.com/APOlXB7e10
— Amy (@psychologyamyb) March 17, 2024
Esteemed graffiti artist Banksy has seemingly revealed his real name in a newly unearthed interview from 2003.
The interview – which was recorded radio twenty years ago but was never released – is finally being shared for the first time as part of a special episode being broadcast for BBC Radio 4’s The Banksy Story.
Wrench asked if he could use Banksy’s real name in the interview, citing that The Independent had already used it, asking the artist to confirm if his name was Robert Banks. “It’s Robbie,” Banksy clarified.
A new Banksy exhibition opens at the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art . It will showcase works from across Banksy’s career, stretching from 1998 to 2023. New stencil versions of some of his famous pieces along with the original sketches behind them will be featured as well as some which have never previously been seen.
A few of Banksy’s famous pieces such as ‘Girl With a Balloon,’ ‘Mobile Lovers’, which depicts a couple embracing as stare at their own phones over each other’s shoulders, and ‘Kissing Coppers’, which first appeared on a wall of the Prince Albert pub in Brighton in 2004, will be on view.
In a statement, the artist shared: “I’ve kept these stencils hidden away for years, mindful they could be used as evidence in a charge of criminal damage. But that moment seems to have passed, so now I’m exhibiting them in a gallery as works of art. I’m not sure which is the greater crime.” (NME report)
Yet about the artist, pop star Robbie Williams is to sell three Banksy artworks for up to £10mSinger puts versions of Kissing Coppers, Girl with Balloon and Vandalised Oils (Choppers) up for auction.
Robbie Williams, who has built a huge fortune from record sales and concerts, is selling three works by Banksy, the anonymous street artist whose partially shredded painting Love is in the Bin fetched a record £18.5m last year.
The pieces from Williams’s art collection – Kissing Coppers, Girl with Balloon and Vandalised Oils (Choppers) – are expected to sell for a total of between £7m and £10m.
“These works unite the cultural legacies of two of Britain’s biggest stars: Robbie Williams and Banksy,” said Hugo Cobb of Sotheby’s. “Like their creator and like their owner, they are acerbic, iconic, irreverent and unique.”
Kissing Coppers, which depicts two male British police officers in a passionate embrace, first appeared on the outside wall of the Prince Albert pub in Brighton in 2004. The original mural was removed in 2014 after being repeatedly vandalised.
