Banksy

benneh · 2 Apr 2008 at 16:50

martinturner said:
Im not convinced that is strictly true either? Not purposely disagreeing, but what is your source that the 'rat' was commissioned?!? I have been a big Banky fan for several years, have pretty much followed his work in Bristol and London, but was never aware that anything he has done was 'commissioned'? Are you basing this on it being stenciled in a prominant place? I am happy to be wrong, but curious too. There have been talks about stuff being commissioned, but nothing has been proven. Dont recall reading anything in his books?

A big fan of his work!

My mistake. He was 'invited' (and paid) to paint the mural during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial festival. I have no source linkage, but it's a fairly well known local fact. As for him never having been commissioned, lol!.

anksta said:
is it this you're on about?

I took it the one time I had to step foot in Liverpool

That's the one.

anksta said:
also there's no such word as richous.

Thanks ever so much for pointing that out. I really don't know how we would all get on in life without pedantic jobsworths combing our literary trails :yawn:. Welcome to the internet, where people occasionally make mistakes.

Teki187 · 2 Apr 2008 at 16:55

Extremely well done.

Glaucus · 2 Apr 2008 at 17:19

What I like about most of his stuff as well as it being very good. It talks about modern society and makes you think.

Cosimo · 2 Apr 2008 at 17:27

One man’s art another man’s graffiti.

penski · 2 Apr 2008 at 17:46

doofer said:
Who with? Were they other 13yr olds?

Friends and friends of friends... They'd have been in their mid-twenties at the time.

*n

Edit: I would have been around 14, 15 or so...so it'd be circa '98-99.

Dj_Jestar · 2 Apr 2008 at 18:39

simulatorman said:
What is he?

Where does he come from?

Spyhop · 2 Apr 2008 at 18:41

He's well weapon. Proper Jackson.

Dj_Jestar · 2 Apr 2008 at 18:46

Either I'm getting old and no longer "down with the kids" or you have just posted complete babble :/

DampCat · 2 Apr 2008 at 19:08

i'm down with the kids and it's still babble.

He must be from Romford.

Also, Banksy was interesting until his first book came out and he started selling art "ironically" to celebrities.

Steedie · 2 Apr 2008 at 19:15

My mate collects his artwork, started before he was popular

He has done VERY well out of it, sold one of his pieces to a gallery for 20k, bought it 2 years earlier for 70 quid

manoz · 2 Apr 2008 at 19:18

Dj_Jestar said:
Where does he come from?

Yate, apparently. Which in itself is a joke, sorry DreXel

James07 · 2 Apr 2008 at 21:17

Ledgendary.

benneh · 2 Apr 2008 at 21:24

wush said:
He's well weapon. Proper Jackson.

. Total ****ing Mexico

PardonTheWait · 2 Apr 2008 at 21:39

He's alright, I suppose

Greenlizard0 · 2 Apr 2008 at 21:53

He's brilliant but apparently there's another artist out there like who's even better. I was talking to somebody* on Saturday night who used to be his manager.

*she was fiiiit...

thepharcyde · 2 Apr 2008 at 22:32

I prefer TOX01,02,03,04,05,06,07 & 08, his tags brighten my day as to how he gets to some of the places he manages to tag

Dj_Jestar · 3 Apr 2008 at 09:41

LOL (and that's a genuine LOL), I see TOX0x all over the tube, everywhere. It does amaze me some of the places that tag is in.

jojothemonkey69 · 3 Apr 2008 at 11:41

penski said:
Complete ****. Hypocritical, overrated corporate whore.

"Smash the system! Reclaim the streets! Dissolve the Rat Race!

...Twenty quid, mate.

Oh! The new book? Thirty five quid."

*n

You don't have to buy his books.The people who do are the ones who he's ripping off. Especially when most of his images are available online on flickr etc plus on his site his shop is free. A friend of a friend took a plank of wood with a banksy on it and sold it last year sometime for 8 grand!!!