Buy your own Banksy at London pub pop-up gallery

Buy your own Banksy at London pub pop-up gallery

21 October, 2009
by: Spoonfed Team

The anonymous Bristol-based street art champion known only as Banksy is holding an exhibition in London this weekend. The recently-renovated Library on Islington's never-quite-fashionable Upper Street plays host to a range of works by Banksy and his fellow aerosol-wielding chums.

The exhibition has been organised by Bristol-based contemporary street art gallery Crazy Fools. Besides Banksy, the gallery sells work by such graffiti luminaries as Paul Insect, Sick Boy, Blek Le Rat and Antony Micalef.

Banksy rose to fame in the early Noughties, with his brand of politically-inspired satirical stencils, which were put on buildings around the world. He pops up in the news from time to time when celebrities pay exorbitant prices for his works at Sotheby's auctions or when local councils clean up what they see as vandalism. In 2008, Banksy organised the Cans Festival, a festival for graffiti underneath Waterloo Station and in 2009 he held an exhibition at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.



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