Riot Green ref1
Rivington Street, London exhibition ref1
Roa ref1
Robbo ref1, ref2, ref3
Rock Steady Crew ref1
Ronald McDonald ref1
Rowdy ref1
Rude Copper ref1
The Rude Lord ref1, ref2
Ruined Landscape ref1
Run-DMC ref1
Saatchi Gallery ref1, ref2, ref3
Sachs, Gunter ref1
St Paul’s riots ref1, ref2
Salin, Daniel ref1, ref2
Samuel, David ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
San Francisco ref1
Sancton, Julian ref1
Santa’s Ghetto ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Sapong, Johnnie ref1
Sawyer, Miranda ref1
Schiff, Evan ref1
Schiller, Marc ref1, ref2, ref3
Schnack, A.J. ref1, ref2
sculpture ref1
See No Evil festival ref1
Sekree, Keith ref1, ref2
Self-Portrait ref1
Selfridges ref1
Severnshed restaurant, Bristol exhibition ref1
Sex Pistols ref1
Shab ref1
Sickboy ref1
Sightsavers ref1
Simmons, Russell ref1
Simple Intelligence Testing ref1
Situationists ref1
sixspace ref1, ref2
sketch books ref1
Sloss, John ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Snelle, Mike ref1, ref2
Snyder, Gregory ref1
Soker ref1
Sotheby’s ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
SP27 ref1
Space Girl and Bird ref1
Splashers ref1
sponsorship ref1, ref2
stencil art ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Stewart, Andy ref1
Stewart, Martha ref1
Stig ref1
Stipe, Michael ref1
Stop and Search ref1
street art ref1, ref2
image of the street artist ref1
market, creation of a ref1
social acceptance of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Studio Number One ref1
Subliminal Projects ref1
Subway Art ref1
Sundance Film Festival ref1
surveillance, subject of ref1, ref2
Swinstead, Jon ref1, ref2
Swoon ref1, ref2
tags ref1, ref2
Tai the elephant ref1, ref2
Take ref1
Tate Britain ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Tate Modern ref1, ref2, ref3
Tavia D ref1, ref2, ref3
Teach ref1
Team Banksy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Thompson, Ben ref1
throw up ref1
Timberlake, Justin ref1
TMP Enterprises ref1
Toaster Movement ref1
Todd, Simon ref1
Top Gear ref1
Tox ref1, ref2
‘toy’ ref1, ref2, ref3
train pieces ref1, ref2, ref3
Triumph GT6 ref1
Truman Brewery site, London ref1
Turf War ref1, ref2, ref3
Turf War exhibition ref1, ref2, ref3
Turlington, Christy ref1
Turner Prize ref1, ref2, ref3
Turo ref1, ref2
Tweety Pie ref1
Twombly, Cy ref1
Unangst, Joel ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
United Bombers crew ref1
urban art ref1, ref2
Vandalised Phone Box ref1
Vanina Holasek gallery, New York ref1
Vermin ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Very Little Helps ref1, ref2
Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) ref1, ref2, ref3
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill exhibition, New York ref1, ref2
voice distortion devices ref1
Voina ref1
Von Teese, Dita ref1
Walborn, Derek ref1
Walker, Nick ref1, ref2
Walker, Phil ref1, ref2, ref3
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool ref1
Wall and Piece ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Wall of Sound studios ref1
Wall Paintings Workshop ref1
Wallinger, Mark ref1
walls and other surfaces, trade in ref1, ref2
Walls on Fire graffiti festival ref1
Warhol, Andy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
website (Banksy) ref1
Wellard, Nathan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Wells Fargo Bank ref1
West Bank wall, Israel ref1, ref2, ref3
Weston-super-Mare ref1
Wet Dog ref1
What? ref1
White, Jez ref1
wildstyle ref1
Williams, Gareth ref1
Wilson, William ref1
Wolfe, Tom ref1
Wood, Paul ref1
World of Vintage T-Shirts ref1
Worster, Martin ref1, ref2
Wright, Frank Lloyd ref1
Wright, Richard ref1, ref2, ref3
Wright, Steve ref1
Xens ref1
yarn stormers ref1
Yorkshire farm gate and duck shed wall ref1, ref2, ref3
Young People’s Sexual Health Clinic, Bristol ref1
Z-Boys ref1
Zhang, Ziyi ref1
Zomby ref1, ref2
List of Illustrations
Venue magazine reporting on Barton Hill Youth Club which John Nation had turned into the home of graffiti in Bristol. Courtesy of Neil Clark
A wall of the Youth Club before graffiti writers had got to work. Courtesy of Neil Clark; Courtesy of Cheo
A wall of the Youth Club after graffiti writers had got to work. Courtesy of Neil Clark; Courtesy of Cheo
Bristol graffiti artist, Inkie, painting at the World Graffiti art competition in 1989 – he and his fellow painter Cheo came second. Courtesy of Cheo
Banksy, with the DJ on the left and Inkie with classic graffiti lettering on the right, collaborated on this piece in St Paul’s, Bristol in 1999.
Two panels from Walls on Fire, a graffiti exhibition organised by Banksy and Inkie in 1998 using 400 metres of hoardings around building work at Bristol harbour. The second piece is by Inkie.
Banksy’s Mild Mild West won a poll to find an alternative landmark for Bristol. It has been splattered in paint but not destroyed. John Mills/Rex Features
The front of the travelling fairground ride, Mystic Swing, painted by Dave ‘W.E.T.’ Panit and Banksy in 2000. Panit painted his section by day and Banksy used a headtorch to paint at night. Courtesy of Mark Walton (tmunki)
A punk having trouble with the instructions on a wall near the IKEA store in Croydon. The wall was cut out by two Banksy fans who have turned down an offer of £240,000 for it. © JCB-Images/Alamy
PRICK painted on a boarded up shop in Liverpool. Bought for £500 and sold for around £200,000 in New York although never authenticated by Banksy. William Fallows
A Banksy placard-holding rat near the Barbican arts centre in London. The placard was later transformed by Team Robbo to read ‘I love London’. Nicholas Baily/Rex Features; Author’s Collection
Banksy’s piece on a Sexual Health Clinic for Young People in Bristol. In a referendum organised by the council 93 per cent of those who voted said it should be allowed to stay. David Beauchamp/Rex Features
Sunrise at Boghenge, Banksy’s contribution to Glastonbury 2007. He borrowed the portaloos from Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis and set them up in the Sacred Space field. Some of them later appeared at the entrance to his exhibition in Bristol. David Pearson/Rex Features
The first edition of The Observer Music Monthly magazine: Blur are photographed in front of the wall of a farmer’s barn which Banksy had decorated with a tv being thrown out of a window in classic rock star fash
ion. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2003; Photographer Claudia Janke
A crumpled red telephone box, complete with pickaxe, which Banksy placed in Soho. It was later sold at a charity auction in New York for $605,000. Rex Features
Banksy painted this homage to Tesco on the side of a chemist’s shop in Essex Road, Islington in 2008. Although the children were later protected by plastic the piece has since been irretrievably defaced. Jeff Blackler/Rex Features
The various painted animals at Banksy’s Turf War exhibition in 2003 caused animal rights protestors to object which in turn gained the exhibition more publicity. Alex Sudea/Rex Features
Tai, a 38-year-old elephant painted (in nontoxic paint) by Banksy, became one of the stars of his 2006 Los Angeles sell-out show, Barely Legal. B Kvartuc/Keystone USA/Rex Features
Banksy’s Santa’s Ghetto in Oxford Street, 2006; the ghetto has become an annual event around Christmas selling Banksy and other artists’ work. Ray Tang/Rex Features
A sign at the entrance to Leake Street, underneath Waterloo’s railway tracks. Banksy rented this tunnel for a festival of street artists from around the world. Author’s Collection
An Israeli soldier gets frisked by a young girl; painted on a wall in Bethlehem, the wall was shipped across to New York where it awaits a buyer. © Dan De Kleined/Alamy
Maeve Neale and Nathan Wellard stand in front of their home, an articulated lorry that Banksy painted at Glastonbury. Albanpix Ltd/Rex Features
The queue for the Banksy exhibition in Bristol. It was the second most visited exhibition in Britain in 2009, just beaten by the Saatchi Gallery, and at peak times it could take four hours to get in. Barry Batchelor/PA Wire
Crowds file past Banksy’s ice cream van at the start of their visit to his exhibition at the Bristol City Museum. Jeff Blackler/Rex Features
How Bristol embraced graffiti. The See No Evil street art exhibition in the city, organised by Inkie with the help of £40,000 from the city council, turned a depressing street in the city centre into one of the world’s largest outdoor art exhibitions. PA Images
Rats in New York, two of four huge walls painted by Colossal Media following Banksy’s design at the time of his Pet Shop exhibition in the city in the autumn of 2008. Courtesy of Colossal Media
Two animatronic chicken nuggets feed themselves at the Village Pet Store, the three-week exhibition that Banksy opened in New York in 2008. Dima Gavrysh/Rex Features
Banksy’s artwork at Park City, home of the Sundance Film Festival, has been preserved behind plexiglass. Marcocchi Guilio/SIPA/Rex Features
Painted in the derelict Packard motor plant in Detroit; never authenticated but taken away to be put as a key exhibit in a new art gallery. © 2010 detroitfunk.com
Murder Mile by Pure Evil painted in a site waiting redevelopment in north London. Author’s Coll
Wall Street’s charging bull that graffiti crochet artist Olek managed to cover up nicely in an extraordinary piece of crocheting. Her work lasted only a couple of hours before it was cut off. Work by Olek; Image courtesy of Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Graffiti artist Ben Eine’s piece in Hackney, painted after David Cameron had surprised Eine and many others by selecting a work of his to give to President Obama on his first official visit to Washington. Artofthestate
Haywain with Cruise Missiles (1980), Peter Kennard’s detourned version of Constable’s famous scene, bought by the Tate in 2007. © Peter Kennard
Graffiti for London by David Samuel. The tube map’s station names have been replaced by the names of the city’s top graffiti writers from 1980-2000 placed at the stop closest to where they were from. Rarekind London
Some of the 120 fake Banksy prints discovered by the Metropolitan Police during their investigation into two men convicted of forging Banksys. © Metropolitan Police
A pouting girl holding an Oscar painted on a wall in Weston-super-Mare shortly after Banksy failed to win an Oscar for his film. Hailed as a new Banksy it later turned out to be a fake. SWNS
This image was painted by Team Robbo as part of the ongoing war between Robbo and Banksy over a wall beside the Regent’s Canal near Camden Lock. Like others before it the image did not last long before Banksy, in turn, painted over it. © LouisBerk.com
Thierry Guetta or Mr Brainwash, star of Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop in front of one of his Charlie Chaplin Pink which sold for $122,500 at auction in New York in 2010. AlamyCelebrity/Alamy
A wall in Camden with a piece believed to be Banksy in support of Tox, a graffiti artist jailed for twenty-seven months in 2011 for offences stretching back to 2000. London News Service/Rex Features
Cardinal Sin, a work given by Banksy on permanent loan to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He implied that it was a comment on the cases of children abused by Catholic priests. Mark Sumner/Rex Features
A well-hooded Banksy, with his voice disguised, facing the camera in his film Exit Through the Gift Shop. C. Everett Collection/Rex Features
Venue magazine reporting on Barton Hill Youth Club which John Nation had turned into the home of graffiti in Bristol. Courtesy of Neil Clark
A wall of the Youth Club before graffiti writers had got to work. Courtesy of Neil Clark; Courtesy of Cheo
A wall of the Youth Club after graffiti writers had got to work. Courtesy of Neil Clark; Courtesy of Cheo
Bristol graffiti artist, Inkie, painting at the World Graffiti art competition in 1989 – he and his fellow painter Cheo came second. Courtesy of Cheo
Banksy, with the DJ on the left and Inkie with classic graffiti lettering on the right, collaborated on this piece in St Paul’s, Bristol in 1999.
Two panels from Walls on Fire, a graffiti exhibition organised by Banksy and Inkie in 1998 using 400 metres of hoardings around building work at Bristol harbour. The second piece is by Inkie.
Banksy’s Mild Mild West won a poll to find an alternative landmark for Bristol. It has been splattered in paint but not destroyed. John Mills/Rex Features
The front of the travelling fairground ride, Mystic Swing, painted by Dave ‘W.E.T.’ Panit and Banksy in 2000. Panit painted his section by day and Banksy used a headtorch to paint at night. Courtesy of Mark Walton (tmunki)
A punk having trouble with the instructions on a wall near the IKEA store in Croydon. The wall was cut out by two Banksy fans who have turned down an offer of £240,000 for it. © JCB-Images/Alamy
PRICK painted on a boarded up shop in Liverpool. Bought for £500 and sold for around £200,000 in New York although never authenticated by Banksy. William Fallows
A Banksy placard-holding rat near the Barbican arts centre in London. The placard was later transformed by Team Robbo to read ‘I love London’. Nicholas Baily/Rex Features; Author’s Collection
Banksy’s piece on a Sexual Health Clinic for Young People in Bristol. In a referendum organised by the council 93 per cent of those who voted said it should be allowed to stay. David Beauchamp/Rex Features
Sunrise at Boghenge, Banksy’s contribution to Glastonbury 2007. He borrowed the portaloos from Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis and set them up in the Sacred Space field. Some of them later appeared at the entrance to his exhibition in Bristol. David Pearson/Rex Features
The first edition of The Observer Music Monthly magazine: Blur are photographed in front of the wall of a farmer’s barn which Banksy had decorated with a tv being thrown out of a window in classic rock star fashion. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2003; Photographer Claudia Janke
A crumpled red telephone box, complete with pickaxe, which Banksy placed in Soho. It was later sold at a charity auction in New York for $605,000. Rex Features
Banksy painted this homage to Tesco on the side of a chemist’s shop in Essex Road, Islington in 2008. Although the children were later protected by plastic the piece has since been irretrievably defaced. Jeff Blackler/Rex Features
The various painted animals at Banksy’s Turf War exhibition in 2003 caused animal rights protestors to object which in
turn gained the exhibition more publicity. Alex Sudea/Rex Features
Tai, a 38-year-old elephant painted (in nontoxic paint) by Banksy, became one of the stars of his 2006 Los Angeles sell-out show, Barely Legal. B Kvartuc/Keystone USA/Rex Features
Banksy’s Santa’s Ghetto in Oxford Street, 2006; the ghetto has become an annual event around Christmas selling Banksy and other artists’ work. Ray Tang/Rex Features
A sign at the entrance to Leake Street, underneath Waterloo’s railway tracks. Banksy rented this tunnel for a festival of street artists from around the world. Author’s Collection
An Israeli soldier gets frisked by a young girl; painted on a wall in Bethlehem, the wall was shipped across to New York where it awaits a buyer. © Dan De Kleined/Alamy
Maeve Neale and Nathan Wellard stand in front of their home, an articulated lorry that Banksy painted at Glastonbury. Albanpix Ltd/Rex Features
The queue for the Banksy exhibition in Bristol. It was the second most visited exhibition in Britain in 2009, just beaten by the Saatchi Gallery, and at peak times it could take four hours to get in. Barry Batchelor/PA Wire
Crowds file past Banksy’s ice cream van at the start of their visit to his exhibition at the Bristol City Museum. Jeff Blackler/Rex Features
How Bristol embraced graffiti. The See No Evil street art exhibition in the city, organised by Inkie with the help of £40,000 from the city council, turned a depressing street in the city centre into one of the world’s largest outdoor art exhibitions. PA Images
Rats in New York, two of four huge walls painted by Colossal Media following Banksy’s design at the time of his Pet Shop exhibition in the city in the autumn of 2008. Courtesy of Colossal Media
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