Banksy

Wall and Piece
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except may be when it’s squatting in the Tate or New York’s Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills, and umbrellas. If you look hard enough you’ll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. And now for the first time, he’s putting together the best of his work – old and new in a fully illustrated colour volume.

Banksy Locations and Tours: Revised and Updated for 2008: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs in London
A Collection of Graffiti Locations & Photographs in London, mainly of Banksy’s street work

- 3 Banksy tours in London
- 65 Detailed Graffiti Locations
- Over 100 Colour Photographs
- Also including graffiti by Eine, Faile, El Chivo, Arofish, Cept, Space Invader, Blek Le Rat, D*face, and Shepard Fairey / Obey.

Do you fancy wandering the streets of London looking for graffiti, especially that from Banksy? Or do you prefer just sitting at home in your comfy chair, looking at photos of his street work and reading a bit about them?

This unique, 100% unofficial, book lets you do either and is based on the free tours and location information that Martin Bull researched and offered to the public. Follow Martin’s street tours or make your own DIY tour. Collect all the locations like a geek or just wander around, stop at the various quirky local attractions and explore parts of London you may never have visited before. Or just flick through the book whilst on the toilet.

Banksy’s Bristol: Home Sweet Home

“Home Sweet Home” is a celebration of Banksy’s street art in his home city of Bristol. This book places him in the context of 3D, John Nation from the Barton Hill Settlement, Inkie, Nick Walker and the other artists and musicians who were instrumental in linking Bristol to the original New York hip hop scene. It is the most revealing account of Banksy’s formative years and contains more than one hundred images of his Bristol art, as well as pictures of Banksy at work, many of which have never been published before. Steve Wright, Venue magazine’s “Art Editor”, traces Banksy’s roots back to the rave culture of the Nineties and draws a rounded picture of an artist who is most famous for being anonymous.