More info on Banksy

Banksy

Banksy is a graffiti artist fromEngland, he is also a political activist, film director on painter. He has a distinctive stenciling technique which usually consists of dark humour, anti establishment, anti war and anti capitalism.
Banksy came up through the Bristol underground scene which involved collaberations from musiciansand artists. It is believed that banksy was born in 1974 and was raised in Bristol, England. He displayed his work on public surfaces such as walls, he sometimes uses structures that are already present like power boxes and lamp posts.
Banksy went on to make a film/documentry called 'Exit through the gift shop', it was classed as the worlds first street art disaster movie, it made its debut in the 2010 sundance film festival an was later nominated for the academy award for 'best documentry'.
Banksy began as a freehand graffiti artist in 1990 - 1994 as part of the Bristol underground group called DryBreadz Crew. He used stencils as elements of his freehand graffiti, he turned to stenciling in 200 after realizing how much easier and faster it was to complete the piece. He claims he changed to stenciling after he was hiding from the police under a dustbin and saw a stenciled number on the bottom of it.
Banksys work usually featured striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. Banksy has had many exhibitions for his art work, his first being on the 19th June 2011 in Los Angeles, he went on to have many more exhibitions and sell lots of his work, sometimes for hundreds of thousands. Still no one knows his real identiry!