Banksy

Regent's Park Road, Camden. Painted out some time on the 9th or 10th of February, 2008 and restored within the week, but looking rather battered now...

(30 June 2008) Now with a Mexican knock-off....

(8 October 2008) Also...

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kel1 says:

absolutely marvelous... so creative.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

grebo guru says:

Very cool, nevertheless.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

grebo guru says:

One wonders how much of the brick was exposed? or was the brick portion repainted as brick-like?
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

W10 says:

Nice one Simon!!!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

mickeydonoghue says:

Good ole banksy we love him
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Hindolbittern says:

Bleedin' fantastico.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

bootpainter says:

This is wonderful. Trompe l'oeil at its best, and most minimal!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

EricGjerde says:

http://www.banksy.co.uk/drawing/08.html

Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

ulibrsrkr says:

cool!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Moxette says:

Excellent!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Kris Kros says:

One of the best.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Orhan Tsolak says:

Ah, Banksy pictures on Flickr should be called "Banking views on Banksy." really :). In a similar way, I had the most views when I posted a "Jeff Aerosol" ( Perhaps France's eponimous and more famous Banksy). Not much to do with photography, all the credit should go really to the artist. Same here. But again if it was not for your eyes and camera, I would have never seen this! So thanks. Another excellent Banksy of course!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

Crikey, thanks everyone. grebo guru, I'll check tomorrow morning and report back.

EricGjerde, thanks for sorting out the attribution.

Orhan T, you're so right it hurts - until Royal de Luxe came along, my most viewed picture had been a Banksy for *months*.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

wojofoto says:

wouw...!!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Thomas Walker says:

i love banksy, what a legend
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Stanley＊ says:

Haha!cool!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Andy Welsh says:

I guess you have to agree that this guy is a total legend?

Also, thanks to EricGjerde for the link to the original sketch....it gave a nice bit of background to Simon's wonderful shot.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Lady Vervaine says:

yay! fab :)
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

pfflyers1 says:

very cool
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Ivan says:

Congratulations! This image is currently one of Flickr's most interesting photos for 15 may 2006. (It is on page one of the calendar view.) Would you please add it to the Interestingness pool? It would be a great addition!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Ivan says:

P.S.: I apologize, I had deleted it by accident
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

the mighty jimbo says:

one day i'm gonna do a banksy pilgrimage through london. his work blows my mind.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

susafri says:

amazing, whoever banksy is
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Gry says:

cool!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

justDM says:

fabulous!!!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

jonnybaker says:

thanks
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Fonk says:

It's fun
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Hel Des says:

Grande!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

mell242 says:

Fantastic, I'm a huge Bansky fan, love this one, thanks for sharing :-)
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

bleu celt says:

beau trompe l'oeil...
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

scurvesahead says:

This is pretty cute. Is it a painting or what??? How is this done? Judi in S.M.,Ca.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Orhan Tsolak says:

Scurvesahead "How is this done"? Now, that's a question worth one million dollars! :)
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

evasèe says:

I always thought taht Banksy is the best!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

evasèe says:

Ups! that not taht. I´m sorry!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

dragonhead says:

wooooooow, incredible!!!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Tous les noms sont déjà pris... pfff... says:

Really cool !
Bravo !
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

plvheart1 says:

so cool!!!!!!!!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Phineas H says:

Good capture. Banksy is brilliant and you got it really well. I've not seen this one before.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

Thank you very much for the comments, views and faves everyone - Phineas H, I think this is only a couple of days old.

scurvesahead - Banksy, the artist responsible, is an increasingly popular English stencil graffiti artist. He has a website where you can see more of his work and find out more about him.

And grebo guru - the bricks are painted on!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

..REZINE69 / Kuality Street Gallery says:

seak
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

dlemieux says:

that is fantastic!
banksy worship
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

ScaryLily says:

yes.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

FFgoatee says:

:)))
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

mr_la_rue says:

Nice one! Think i'm gonna have to take a trip to London again.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

banggoesanotherday says:

The White Cube Gallery (in Shoreditch, Banksy's regular stomping ground), also has this very picture; except, the wall is brick painted white in the first place (i.e., the 'real' brick of the picture is the white bricks painted to appear um, brick colour).
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

isabella_s says:

wow....absolutely magic..mmm so well banggoesanotherday i thing this is the point about the wall, its part from the fantasy from this pic...luv this pic
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

zesakgraf says:

banksy es bakán...
www.banksy.co.uk/
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

.ch-ching says:

!

haha love it. the same one appeared on the gallery I work in
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

teemu.antero says:

Wow, pretty impressing. :)
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Sherry says:

Very creative!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Ikanikamo says:

great "painting" and your great shot ;) I love this street art stuff!!!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

Thanks yet again everyone - and well spotted, bytepusher!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Namuchila says:

Magnific
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

algarvenicky says:

Well after finally getting to the end of this very long list of comments, well deserved I might add, I can now finally leave mine, but I am lost for words, ok maybe not. This is one of the best pieces of work I have seen in a long time, well done.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

blynaffit says:

what a great piece of art
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

mappamundi says:

was so pleased to spot this in interestingness yesterday. had to take a detour on my ride into work this morning just to see it. it looks pretty fresh. any idea when it actually went up?
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

Thanks yet again all - algarvenicky, thank you for persevering.

mappamundi, probably Satuday night. acb actually managed to photograph it before me but didn't upload until a bit later.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

mappamundi says:

just passing, or inside info? or would that be telling..
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

mahalie says:

Ah, and here it is...thanks! Oh I'm thrilled to see there's a Bansky pool, it had never occured to me to search for one. Is there a walking tour of Bansky's somewhere? A big 'ol London map of his work might finally get me over there for a visit.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

brancusi7 says:

One of the perks of being a Londoner, and one of his best. His book's good too.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

wojofoto says:

i never saw a pic so many time viewed....
super....!!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Orhan Tsolak says:

Simon Crubellier, I start being tempted to go and take a shot of this myself too! Over 3000 views, is incredible really! :)

Not a single conmmentator attempted to comment on the substance of it though. I will give it a try, with the danger of looking totally foolish. I may be totally wrong though. On the other hand, this is probably different thing, to different people.

For me this is all about the Victorian times really. A housemaid hiding the dirt under the carpet, and throwing it towards the poor (the bricks for me represent the poor, whereas the white curtain, is the courtain between the upper classes and the masses)
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

Thanks once again, everyone - wojofoto and Orhan T, I was a little amazed, too. I think this was the first photo of this one uploaded, which probably helped; I've seen at least two others on Explore since then, by acb and mappamundi.

Orhan T - I see a lot of Banksy's work as being explicitly about power relationships in one way or another. I saw this as being about how the sheer volume of cheap immigrant labour needed to sustain the luxury lifestyles of London's ever increasing population of the super-rich is itself something that gets swept behind a curtain. And how if you don't respect the people who work for you, they'll find simple and effective ways to make life that little bit less pleasant for you... but that might just be down to my current mood.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

mappamundi says:

read here for the little that banksy has to say about the piece. if you haven't already that is ;)
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

_SAILOR JESS. says:

thats brilliant! ace photo! x
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

Thanks, Jessica!

mappamundi - I am horrified to learn that I have inadvertently participated in one of Bonio's schemes. But it does go some way towards explaining why this got more than 1000 hits a day for a while.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Hindolbittern says:

The day after that was printed The Independent had to print a retraction - Banky's people had told them that Banksy had never worked to commmission for a newspaper and was unlikely to start!

See "Clarification" at the bottom of this article news.independent.co.uk/media/article485497.ec e
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

mappamundi says:

well some quality journalism going on there then. the clarification isn't that clear is it? note that the independent doesn't specifically retract the statement that it was commissioned by them....
"Bonio" ..chuckles...
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Hindolbittern says:

Indeed - never apologise, never explain.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

mappamundi says:

perhaps the original article was a piece of faux-journalism inserted by banksy in disguise
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

Or perhaps "Bono" was actually Guy Goma again.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

mappamundi says:

i do hope they gave mr. goma the job
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

[Contro]Luce says:

:D
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Amarilla says:

funny, fantastic, artistic.
:)
i like it.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

jimmiknott says:

awesome idea must be very hard 2 do though
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

ulibrsrkr says:

btw. you catched it without the tag! lucky you!

www.flickr.com/photos/59584992@N00/162655049/
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

Falco E2 says:

Saw the same off Hoxton Square.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

And two months later, she gets a friend, courtesy of French stencil/paste-up artist Jef Aerosol...
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Hindolbittern says:

Er Simon, that link just brings us back here.

Is this a post modernist joke of the sort a poor country girl wouldn't understand?
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

Whoops. Fixed now...
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

•°o.O FottY O.o°• [deleted] says:

Damn!!!!!!!! sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

olaf koens [deleted] says:

quality stuff, excellent
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Princess Valium says:

(#10 "most interesting" tagged with "London," August 20, '06)
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

Would it be sad of me to admit that I look in on Scout about twice a day?
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

spray.away [deleted] says:

what a fkn hero!
jus wish he doesnt get caught eh.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Giuseppe Lambertino says:

Top notch
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

David Carbajal says:

nice
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

*lost says:

ewll done :)
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Feroc!ously_D!v!ne says:

niiiiiCe..................!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

bıtzı says:

well, just to show how much i like this shot i blogged it here:

Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

Thanks!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

ponchosquealº says:

very nice one.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

dcode_art says:

oh yeah!!!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Bulevar Revolucije says:

v.good
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

celiaaa says:

wow...i like it very muche
is very creative
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

celiaaa says:

wow...i like it very much
is very creative
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Jule Q. says:

hahhahahaha
goood!
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

christiantunge says:

thats wonderful
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

d_sheahan says:

Can I have permission to use your photo to use for a bit of fun on photoshop for something at my work (only to be used for where I work (an accountancy practice))? Would be much appreciated.

Regards

Dan
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

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