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 The tube map’s station names have been replaced by the names of the city’s top graffiti writers from 1980-2000 placed at the stop closest to where they were from.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
About the Author
Will Ellsworth-Jones was chief reporter and the New York correspondent for The Sunday Times as well as holding editorial positions at the Telegraph magazine, the Independent magazine and Saga magazine. His previous book for Aurum was a history of conscientious objectors in the First World War, We Will Not Fight. He lives in London.
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