Artist revealed first name in unearthed 2003 interview

A uncommon nugget of details about the famously enigmatic road artwork celebrity Banksy emerged on Tuesday when he gave his first identify as “Robbie” in an unearthed 2003 BBC interview.

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Within the interview, one of many few identified to exist with the worldwide artwork phenomenon, he’s requested if his identify “Robert Banks”, to which he replies: “It’s Robbie.”

His identification has lengthy been the supply of hypothesis, with some claiming his identify was Robin or Robert Banks.

Banksy talks about his distinctive stencilling fashion within the interview, a podcast bonus a part of a collection known as “The Banksy Story”.

“It’s fast… I wish to get it executed and dusted,” he’s heard to say of his work.

The artist was in his 20s on the time, and was selling the opening of his “Turf Conflict” present in east London.

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The collection additionally incorporates a 2005 interview the artist purportedly gave with US broadcaster Nationwide Public Radio (NPR).

In it, the host asks: “We assume that you’re who you say you might be, however how can we make certain?” The interviewee responds: “Oh, you don’t have any assure of that in any respect.”

Banksy, identified to hail from Bristol in southwest England, boasts an A-list consumer listing and has bought his works for tens of thousands and thousands of kilos at public sale since attaining notoriety within the early 2000s.

By Garrin Lambley © Agence France-Presse

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