[NEWS] Banksy-style pieces appear in Gorleston, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft


August 10, 2021  


 

A graffiti artwork of a couple dancing to an accordion player in Great Yarmouth is one of several possible new Banksy works on the East coast of England. Photo by Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images. 




A painting that looks like a work by the anonymous British artist has popped up on a wall in Lowestoft, on the east coast of England, the Guardian reports. Stenciled paintings bearing the trademarks of Banksy have appeared in nearly a half dozen English coastal towns, with potential new works by the street-art legend popping up in Lowestoft, Gorleston, Oulton Broad, Cromer, and Great Yarmouth. They include depictions of a child near a dug up-pavement, people dancing on a bus shelter and an amusement arcade-style toy-grabbing crane. The artist has not authenticated the works via Instagram or any other means. The anonymous Bristol-based artist's identity is shrouded in secrecy, but he first rose to prominence spray-painting trains and walls in his home city in the early 1990s. Since then his stature has grown and he is known for sending political messages through his work.




 

Banksy appears to have added his own graffiti-covered house to Merrivale Model Village in Great Yarmouth, England. Photo courtesy of Merrivale Model Village.  




In Great Yarmouth, a couple dancing to the sounds of an accordion player are perched atop a bus shelter. Banksy is also suspected of adding a new cottage to the town’s Merrivale Model Village, with a rat stencil—a staple image in the artist’s repertoire—and the words “Go Big or Go Home.” It’s the only one of the new artworks that appears to be signed, with the name “Banksy” scrawled in red paint on the tiny home.


“Banksy has clearly been enjoying an East Anglian staycation: these are very sophisticated stencils showing an artist at the top of his game,” Paul Gough, principal and vice chancellor of Arts University Bournemouth, told the BBC.

The anonymous British artist has yet to claim any of the work publicly, but Banksy’s illicit graffiti has been known to attract tourists, as well as intense interest from art collectors. 



 

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