BANKSY // Street Works

Banksy, Follow Your Dreams – Cancelled, 2010.
Chinatown, Boston, USA.
© Banksy.

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These are a selection of Banksy’s murals created over the course of his career, each appearing suddenly in public spaces and often sparking immediate debate. For more than two decades, his works have surfaced without warning, transforming walls, streets, and buildings into canvases for political and social commentary. From the outset, placement was as important as image. A mural on a contested wall, a stencil beside a government building, or a satirical scene in the middle of a busy street, each was designed to confront people where they lived and worked.

Through these interventions, Banksy has addressed war, consumerism, inequality, and state control, using the city itself to amplify his message. By working in the open and on his own terms, he turned the street into a gallery and the political climate into his subject matter, ensuring his art remained both accessible and uncompromising.
- Sheet Metal Curtains, 2023
  © Banksy.
"Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing."
- Banksy, Wall and Piece

Whether commenting on war, government policy, or environmental crisis, these pieces are created to be seen in context, their meaning shaped by location and timing. Many of his most recognisable images first appeared in this way, stencilled onto city walls or other urban surfaces before later being adapted into prints and original works. In this sense, the street often serves as the testing ground for his ideas, with the immediacy of the setting giving the work its first and often most powerful impact.
ICONIC STREET WORKS
LONDON ZOO
UKRAINE