Year 8 Graphics Homework Miss Hubbard 8x2 BANKSY – GRAFFITI ARTIST By Dylan Selway

1. Year 8 Graphics Homework Miss Hubbard 8x2BANKSY – GRAFFITI ARTISTBy Dylan Selway

2. Banksy is a British Graffiti Artist. He is believed to have been born in Yate, South Gloucestershire near Bristol. He is believed to have been born in 1974, but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details. According to Tristan Manco, Banksy was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England, by his father who was a photocopier technician. Banksy first trained as a butcher before becoming a graffiti artist.

3. Some examples of his work • In April 2006, Banksy created a sculpture based on a crumpled red phone box with a pickaxe in its side, apparently bleeding, and placed it in a street in Soho, London. It was later removed by Westminister Council. BT released a press release, which said: "This is a stunning visual comment on BT's transformation from an old-fashioned telecommunications company into a modern communications services provider."[

4. In June 2006, Banksy created an image of a naked man hanging out of a bedroom window on a wall visible from Park Street in central Bristol. The image sparked some controversy, with the Bristol City Council leaving it up to the public to decide whether it should stay or go. After an internet discussion in which 97% (all but 6 people) supported the stencil, the city council decided it would be left on the building. The mural was later defaced with paint.

6. Graffiti paintings on the Israeli West Bank barrier by Banksy near Qalandia - July 2005

7. Banksy became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s. His artworks are often on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art , which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, is similar to Blek A Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

8. Some examples of his work

9. His art has appeared in cities around the world. Banksy's work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti. Art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder. On 21 May 2007 Banksy gained the award for Art's Greatest living Briton. Banksy, as expected, did not turn up to collect his award, and continued with his notoriously anonymous status. Banksy's "The Flower Chucker" is included in the feature film The Age of Stupid to represent all modern art stored in an archive after the end of the world as we know it.

10. The Flower Chucker

11. On June 13, 2009, the Banksy UK Summer show opened at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, featuring more than 100 works of art, including animatronics and installations; it is his largest exhibition yet, featuring 78 new works. Reaction to the show was positive, with over 8,500 visitors to the show on the first weekend. Over the course of the 12 weeks, the exhibition has been visited over 300,000 times.

12. In September 2009, a Banksy work parodying the Royal Family was partially destroyed by Hackney Council after they served an enforcement notice for graffiti removal to the former address of the property owner. The mural had been commissioned for the 2003 Blur single “Crazy Beat" and the property owner, who had allowed the piece to be painted, was reported to have been in tears when she saw it was being painted over. In December 2009, Banksy marked the end of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference by painting 4 murals on global warming. One included "I don't believe in global warming" which was submerged in water