The document provides an overview of Banksy's career and style through snippets of text, images, and descriptions of events. It traces his origins in stencil graffiti in the UK in the 2000s, his controversial and political street art, the debate over commercialization of his work, and his well-known feud and later collaboration with graffiti artist King Robbo in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The document examines questions around Banksy's street credibility as his art becomes more mainstream and commercially successful.

1. 2007
2004-2010
2008-2011
2008

2. BANKSY

3. Critical
Social
Satire
Political
Sarcastic
Offensive
Religious
Smart
Controversial
Devisive

4. BANKSY
I love you
Banksy’s Street Art:
Is it all far-reaching statements about society?

5. I Hate This
Font
Banksy’s Street Art:
2012 Is it all far-reaching statements about society?

6. BANKSY
Dog Piss
Banksy’s Street Art:
Is it all far-reaching statements about society?

7. Banksy’s Street Art:
Is it all far-reaching statements about society?
BANKSY
Follow your dreams
Follow your dreams, Stencil, 2010

8. “Nothing in the world is more common than
unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house
before you find something worth staying in for. ”
-Banksy

9. Banksy’s Street Art:
Is it all far-reaching statements about society?
BANKSY
Tree limb
Tree, 2011

10. Banksy’s Street Art:
Is it all far-reaching statements about society?
BANKSY
Rickshaw
Rickshaw
Oil on canvas
2011

11. RATS – Where Banksy got started.

12. RATS
If Banksy had a patronus in Harry Potter, it would be a rat.

13. What do you associate rats with?
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14. “I'd been painting rats for three years before
someone said 'that's clever it's an
anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known
that all along.”

15. “Brangelina” buys a Banksy!
How much do you
think Banksy’s
artwork should cost?
How much do you
think this was
purchased for?

16. How does Banksy
sell his work and
stayControl is a handling service
anonymous?
Pest
acting on behalf of the artist BANKSY.
We answer enquiries and determine whether he was responsible for making a
certain piece of artwork and issue paperwork if this is the case. This process
does not make a profit and has been set up to prevent innocent people from
becoming victims of fraud.
Please be aware that because many Banksy pieces are created in an advanced
state of intoxication the authentication process can be lengthy and challenging.
Pest Control deals only with legitimate works of art and has no involvement with
any kind of illegal activity.

17. Pest Control

18. I can’t believe you morons actually buy this shit
stencil on canvas
2007

19. Promotional Rats
Chinatown / SoHo 2008

20. What happens
when a Street
Artist/ Graffiti
Artist/ Vandal
makes a movie?
Exit
Through
the Gift
Shop

21. “There's no way round it—
commercial success is a
mark of failure for a
graffiti artist. We're not
supposed to be embraced in
that way. When you look at
how society rewards so
many of the wrong people,
it's hard not to view financial
reimbursement as a badge
of self-serving mediocrity."
Quote 1

22. Quote 2
"Obviously people need to
get paid—otherwise you'd
only get vandalism made by
part-timers and trust-fund
kids," Banksy says. "But it's
complicated, it feels like as
soon as you profit from an
image you've put on the
street, it magically
transforms that piece into
advertising [not art].
When graffiti isn't
criminal, it loses most of
its innocence."

23. "Obviously people need to get paid
—otherwise you'd only get
vandalism made by part-timers and
trust-fund kids," Banksy says. "But
it's complicated, it feels like as soon
as you profit from an image you've
put on the street, it magically
transforms that piece into
advertising [not art]. When
graffiti isn't criminal, it loses
most of its innocence."
SO LET’S LOOK AT SOME “INNOCENT”
ILLEGAL ART
Quote 2

24. Keepin’ it real with the battle!
King Robbo is an English underground
graffiti artist who became more widely
known following a graffiti war with Banksy. [1]
There had been a previous meeting
between Robbo and Banksy in the nineties
during which Robbo claimed he slapped
Banksy,[2] a claim Banksy denied.

25. Collaboration with King Robbo
Back in 1985, graffiti artist King Robbo painted one of London’s earliest pieces in a well
known tunnel in Camden. You can see the piece above in all of its original glory.

26. Collaboration with King Robbo
By 2006, the piece had been heavily abused. Scrawled,
sprayed, tagged, the original was barely visible.

27. Collaboration with King Robbo
December 2009: Enter Banksy stage right. Suddenly there’s a worker spotted ‘wallpapering’ up the
graffiti. Robbo is outraged and the battle begins. Reminiscent of the ridiculous East/West coast rap
battles of yore, the move stirs up conflict between street art vs graffiti.

28. Collaboration with King Robbo
December 25, 2009: After a multi-decade hiatus, King Robbo strikes back on Christmas Day.
Insulted and rejuvenated, the King is back and he’s pissed. The media machine starts to salivate.
Graffiti folklore about an encounter in the late 90′s between King Robbo and Banksy emerges. The
details are hazy but apparently when Banksy was introduced to Robbo, he claimed he had never
heard of him and had no idea who he was. Legend has it that Robbo delivered a stern backhand to
a then unknown Banksy, proclaiming: “You may have never heard of me but you’ll never forget me”

29. Collaboration with King Robbo
2010: A few months pass and Banksy finally retorts.
Curious onlookers perk up, this is going to get spicy…

30. Collaboration with King Robbo
• 2010: King Robbo is having none of it. A subtle rebuttal
if you will.

31. Collaboration with King Robbo
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2010: Fade to black. An anonymous third-party enters the fray and blacks out
everything. Could be the city council or perhaps someone just stirring the pot (or
trying to end the pettiness), who knows.

32. Collaboration with King Robbo
• July 2010: King Robbo strikes again! Everybody wins.

33. Collaboration with King Robbo
• 2010: A sad trombone is heard in the distance as another all-black
intervention appears. Onlookers collectively shake their fist at the
sky.

34. Collaboration with King Robbo
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January 2011: Banksy returns with a head-scratching goldfish piece. Some kind of
living room that nobody knows what to think of. At least he incorporated the decrepit
chair.

35. Collaboration with King Robbo
April 2, 2011: With his career again in the
spotlight, King Robbo suddenly and tragicall
sustains a life-threatening head injury. Sadly
was only 5 days before his exhibition at the
Signal Gallery, Shoreditch: ‘Team Robbo –
The Sell Out Tour’. He is believed to still be i
an induced coma and conspiracy theorists
have run amok as to the cause. But the offic
word is that it was an accidental fall. Battle
aside, we all hope he recovers.

36. Collaboration with King Robbo
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November 2011: Banksy throws up an ode to King Robbo’s original. A single,
flammable spray can displayed as a vigil. As with all art, the interpretation is left to
the viewer.

37. The Team Robbo Feud continues….

38. The Team Robbo Feud continues….

39. The Team Robbo Feud continues….

40. The Team Robbo Feud continues….

41. Does Banksy
have “street
cred”
anymore?
He sells work for millions of dollars
vs.
He puts up illegal artwork for free
Which do you think makes him a “great” artist?