Banksy speaks! The ever elusive avenue artist, whose identification is at all times the topic of feverish hypothesis, supposedly pops up on an extended misplaced interview posted immediately on the BBC web site as a part of The Banksy Story collection. The artist was interviewed by the previous arts correspondent Nigel Wrench in the summertime of 2003 to mark the opening of Banksy’s fabled Turf Conflict present in east London. The individual interviewed, talking in a smooth West nation burr, was a “younger bloke in a hoodie”, says Wrench.
Wrench’s chat with the nameless artist is intriguing; the reporter factors out to Banksy that a few of the works within the exhibition—together with painted animals corresponding to a cow daubed with Andy Warhol’s face—are anarchist statements. “It’s not a lot anarchy…. Who has the suitable to evaluate anyone else?” the artist says. And does he wish to put politics again into artwork? “I don’t contemplate myself to be that political…I’ve even had policemen prior to now say they form of like issues about it.” Requested about mega collector Charles Saatchi hoovering up his works in the meantime, Banksy retorts: “I’d by no means knowingly promote something to Charles Saatchi.”
The interviewee talks particularly about his quirky method to creating graffiti works. “In the identical means my mom used to prepare dinner Sunday roast each Sunday and says each Sunday, ‘it takes hours to make it, minutes to eat’. Lately she eats microwave meals for one and appears loads happier. I am form of taking that method to artwork actually. I wish to get it completed and dusted,” says “Banksy”. Crucially, Wrench asks him if he’s known as “Robert Banks”; the artist replies: “It’s Robbie.” The masks has slipped it appears (just a bit bit).
