MARCH 2018: NEW YORK CITY
Banksy unveiled a 70ft long mural in New York last month dedicated to Turkish artist Zehra Dogan who was jailed for two years for painting a picture.
The mural bearing the slogan Free Zehra Dogan was installed on the Houston Bowery Wall, made famous by Keith Haring in the 1970s.
Banksy’s work features a projection of Dogan’s original painting above a white wall covered in tally marks depicting the time she has already spent in jail.
But just hours later a vandal added signature tags to the artwork on the wall in Manhattan, scrawled in red across the bottom half.
Banksy unveiled a 70ft long mural in New York dedicated to Turkish artist Zehra Dogan
JANUARY 2018: HULL
A Banksy mural, which holds a hidden anti- Brexit message, was completely sprayed over just two days after it appeared on a bridge.
The graffiti artist said he was behind the work on Scott Street Bridge in the East Yorkshire city of Hull three months ago.
But just two days after it was installed, the stencil of a boy wearing a cape and helmet alongside the words ‘Draw the raised bridge!’ was defaced.
Since the artist confirmed he was responsible to his two million Instagram followers, huge crowds had flocked to see the work.
Perspex covers the Banksy graffiti art on a disused drawbridge in Hull in January
DECEMBER 2017: BETHLEHEM
New claims over the identity of Banksy intensified late last year after a picture emerged of a street artist finishing off a Banksy artwork in Bethlehem.
Dressed in a distinctive fedora hat, the middle-aged man was wearing grey cargo shorts and a grey fleece and was clutching a stencil and an aerosol can.
But the man in the photo – taken in a courtyard near the holy site of the Chapel of the Milk Grotto – turned out to be Anglo-Israeli graffiti artist James Ame.
The stencilled artwork says ‘Peace on Earth *Terms and Conditions Apply’.
Stencilled artwork by Banksy near the Chapel of the Milk Grotto in Bethlehem