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he various painted animals at Banksy’s Turf War exhibition in 2003 caused animal rights protestors to object which in turn
gained the exhibition more publicity.
Alex Sudea/Rex Features

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ai, a 38-year-old elephant painted (in nontoxic paint) by Banksy, became one of the stars of his 2006 Los Angeles sell-out show,
Barely Legal.
B Kvartuc/Keystone USA/Rex Features

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anksy’s Santa’s Ghetto in Oxford Street, 2006; the ghetto has become an annual event around Christmas selling Banksy and
other artists’ work.
Ray Tang/Rex Features

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sign at the entrance to Leake Street, underneath Waterloo’s railway tracks. Banksy rented this tunnel for a festival of street
artists from around the world.
Author’s Collection

A
n Israeli soldier gets frisked by a young girl; painted on a wall in Bethlehem, the wall was shipped across to New York where it
awaits a buyer.
© Dan De Kleined/Alamy

M
aeve Neale and Nathan Wellard stand in front of their home, an articulated lorry that Banksy painted at Glastonbury.
Albanpix
Ltd/Rex Features

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he queue for the Banksy exhibition in Bristol. It was the second most visited exhibition in Britain in 2009, just beaten by the
Saatchi Gallery, and at peak times it could take four hours to get in.
Barry Batchelor/PA Wire

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rowds file past Banksy’s ice cream van at the start of their visit to his exhibition at the Bristol City Museum.
Jeff
Blackler/Rex Features

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ow Bristol embraced graffiti. The See No Evil street art exhibition in the city, organised by Inkie with the help of £40,000 from
the city council, turned a depressing street in the city centre into one of the world’s largest outdoor art exhibitions.
PA Images

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ats in New York, two of four huge walls painted by Colossal Media following Banksy’s design at the time of his Pet Shop
exhibition in the city in the autumn of 2008.
Courtesy of Colossal Media

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wo animatronic chicken nuggets feed themselves at the Village Pet Store, the three-week exhibition that Banksy opened in New York in
2008.
Dima Gavrysh/Rex Features

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