His art is sarcastic and dark humour stencil techniques graffiti where his art is displayed around England and through the world. He displays his art in public surfaces and public spaces such as with walls and buildings. He does not sell photos of his street art directly himself, but auctioneers does as his graffiti are sometimes removed by graffiti removals.
He began to freehand graffiti in 1990 till 1994 with BryBeadZ Crew, yet after by 2000 he returned to stencilling as he realised he saves more time as it is more convenient and produced faster. He remained unknown for a long time as he used to graffiti the walls wearing a mask so no one would know who he is.
Banks used to hide his stencils under a rubbish lorry to hide them from police whereas graffiti are illegal on private walls.
His messages in his art are mainly Anti-War, Anti-Capitalism and Anti-Establishment.
And his subjects in his art pieces are; Rats, Police, Apes, Soldiers, Children & Elderly persons.
Banksy have produced an unnoticeable £10 notes where he replaed Queen Elizabeth's face with Princess Diana's and changed 'Bank of England' with 'Banksy of England'. This was done to make people remember Princess Diana's death back in 2004.
They were so unnoticeable where people used them even to buy with them and few realised the difference. Nowadays these notes are being sold from people separately at £200 each.
In 2006, he stood up an exhibition in Los Angeles named 'Barely Legal'.
He have put a live elephant in a room painted pink, and a gold floral background, it's message was to create awareness about world's poverty.
He did get the permit for the elephant, but had to remove it due to animal rights activists, as he removed the paint on the final day of the exhibition.
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