Banksy caught on CCTV in Primrose Hill?

Banksy caught on CCTV in Primrose Hill?

10 June, 2010
by: Spoonfed Arts Team

The anonymous graffiti artist Banksy has popped up again, and this time maybe he's been captured on CCTV.

Princess of Wales

OMG apparently there's a new Banksy! No, we don't mean another anonymous vaguely anti-establishment fellow with a spray can and stencils; we mean Banksy's done another work, this time in the garden of the Princess of Wales in Primrose Hill. It depicts a lion looking at a girl holding a heart-shaped ballloon – profound as ever.

In news that may be really, really exciting to those who care about such things, it's being claimed that Banksy may, *gasp*, have been caught on the pub's CCTV cameras. According to the Evening Standard, “The pub's CCTV camera filmed a hoodie-wearing figure creating the artwork in the dead of night. The footage shows him erecting a portable spot light on a chair while he sets to work using a step ladder.”

Interesting huh? Yawn. We'll let you into a secret – we've seen Banksy's birth certificate. Well a photocopy of it, anyway. And are we going to tell you his name? No.

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