In 19 someone called Robin Gunningham – suggested by the Daily Mail to be Banksy’s real name – designed the covers for two cassettes by the Bristol band Mother Samosa. There is debate about when Banksy first designed a cover for a record. On the lorry’s underside was a stencilled message and Banksy realized that stencilling would allow him to work faster. The story goes that he was in the process of painting a mural when he was spotted and to avoid capture hid under a lorry. He started painting murals but soon found that stencilling was faster and meant he could better avoid discovery and possible arrest. This made frontpage news in several newspapers and started a hunt to try to unmask the artist, led primarily by the Daily Mail.īut Banksy’s career had started at least ten years earlier in his native Bristol, where he followed other street artists in decorating walls in the city. Banksy had reimagined the CD booklet, rendering Paris Hilton topless on the front, and DJ Danger Mouse had created a special album to replace Paris Hilton’s songs. Monkeys were another early Banksy motifs.Īlthough he had been active since the mid nineteen nineties, Banksy first came to fame in 2006 when he and associates succeeded in placing 500 spoof CDs satirizing Paris Hilton’s newly released Paris album on the shelves of 48 HMV stores across the United Kingdom. Perhaps he had also seen Blec le Rat’s art and borrowed his signature rat images. He was involved in the street art scene in Bristol from the late nineteen eighties and has admitted that 3D and the Wild Bunch were early influences. I know nothing about the artist known as Banksy’s art training.
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