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wo panels from Walls on Fire, a graffiti exhibition organised by Banksy and Inkie in 1998 using 400 metres of hoardings around
building work at Bristol harbour. The second piece is by Inkie.

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anksy’s Mild Mild West won a poll to find an alternative landmark for Bristol. It has been splattered in paint but not destroyed.
John Mills/Rex Features

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he front of the travelling fairground ride, Mystic Swing, painted by Dave ‘W.E.T.’ Panit and Banksy in 2000. Panit painted
his section by day and Banksy used a headtorch to paint at night.
Courtesy of Mark Walton (tmunki)

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punk having trouble with the instructions on a wall near the IKEA store in Croydon. The wall was cut out by two Banksy fans who have
turned down an offer of £240,000 for it.
© JCB-Images/Alamy

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RICK painted on a boarded up shop in Liverpool. Bought for £500 and sold for around £200,000 in New York although never
authenticated by Banksy.
William Fallows

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Banksy placard-holding rat near the Barbican arts centre in London. The placard was later transformed by Team Robbo to read ‘I
love London’.
Nicholas Baily/Rex Features; Author’s Collection

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anksy’s piece on a Sexual Health Clinic for Young People in Bristol. In a referendum organised by the council 93 per cent of
those who voted said it should be allowed to stay.
David Beauchamp/Rex Features

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unrise at Boghenge, Banksy’s contribution to Glastonbury 2007. He borrowed the portaloos from Glastonbury organiser Michael
Eavis and set them up in the Sacred Space field. Some of them later appeared at the entrance to his exhibition in Bristol.
David Pearson/Rex Features

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he first edition of
The Observer Music Monthly
magazine: Blur are photographed in front of the wall of a farmer’s barn
which Banksy had decorated with a tv being thrown out of a window in classic rock star fashion.
© Guardian News & Media Ltd 2003; Photographer Claudia Janke

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crumpled red telephone box, complete with pickaxe, which Banksy placed in Soho. It was later sold at a charity auction in New York for
$605,000.
Rex Features

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anksy painted this homage to Tesco on the side of a chemist’s shop in Essex Road, Islington in 2008. Although the children were
later protected by plastic the piece has since been irretrievably defaced.
Jeff Blackler/Rex Features

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