Unmasking Banksy #
July 14th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
The Daily Mail believes it has discovered the identity of the famous and anonymous graffiti artist:
It is hard to imagine Banksy, the anti-authoritarian renegade, as a public schoolboy wandering around the 17th Century former monastery, with its upper and lower quadrangles and its prayers in the ancient cathedral.
But we then found a school photograph, taken in 1989, of a bespectacled Robin Gunningham in which he shows a discernible resemblance to the man in the Jamaica photograph.
Indeed, fellow pupils remember Robin, who was in Deans House, as being a particularly gifted artist.
But to that first quoted paragraph I must say: no, it’s really quite easy.
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