BANKSY’S actual identification has been wildly speculated – and there are a lot of clues pointing in direction of Robin Gunningham.
Many individuals imagine he’s the graffiti artist after mysterious images appeared to indicate him engaged on a well-known Banksy in 2004.
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It comes as Banksy’s actual identification may very well be revealed in simply days because the elusive painter faces a Excessive Court docket battle.
The nameless artist has discovered himself the topic of authorized motion accusing him of defamation.
Many speculate Gunningham’s identify will probably be uncovered after discovering what’s believed to be ‘proof’.
Each Banksy and Gunningham seem to reside in the identical places on the similar time paintings pops up.
In 1998 Gunningham was residing in Easton, Bristol, and on the similar time Banksy painted the well-known Gentle Gentle West signal, which reveals a stuffed bear with a Molotov cocktail.
Banksy’s signature paintings was then present in London in 2000, the identical yr Gunningham lived in a flat in Kingsland Street, Hackney.
Nevertheless, former flatmate and buddy Luke Egan stated beforehand: “I lived with a man, with Robin Gunningham. However he wasn’t [Banksy] then.
“I lived with him ages in the past. I do not assume Banksy was round then anyway.”
MAJOR CLUE
Theories surrounding Banksy’s identification have been sparked in 2008 when {a photograph} was circulated of a person carrying darkish denims and a navy shirt.
It was taken in Kingston, Jamaica, in 2004 and appeared to indicate Banksy smiling whereas he labored on his newest challenge.
The person, believed to be the well-known graffiti artist, was crouched in entrance of a bag with stencils and spray paint.
Peter Dean Rickards, who captured the second, confirmed it was of Banksy after leaking the photographs – nonetheless it has by no means been formally confirmed.
A few of Pleasure’s family haven’t been informed who her husband is or what he does.”
A supply
He was stated to have fallen out with the artist.
“Banksy swanned round Jamaica as if he owned the place,” he informed the Night Normal.
“He’s an excessive amount of of a p***y to protest having his image taken as soon as he discovered himself in Kingston, Jamaica—nowhere close to the good, protected media workplaces . . . that he’s accustomed to.”
A person who claimed to know Banksy did verify the picture confirmed Mr Gunningham, in accordance with the Mail.
ARTWORK LEFT BEHIND
One other piece of proof some folks say factors in direction of Gunningham is gadgets he left behind in his Bristol residence.
He lived there with pal Egan however the property was purchased by Camilla Stacey, a curator at Bristol’s Right here Gallery, in 2000.
She claimed the artist had lived on the home as a result of he left items of paintings behind.
Camilla stated: “I purchased the home that he used to reside in. He had rented out a room however I believe there had been issues with the tenants and the owner needed to type of repossess it or no matter, so he was simply promoting it.
“Once I moved in, the place had been lined in graffiti and stuff like that. I threw issues within the bin.”
Who’s Robin Gunningham
Robin was born in 1973 in Bristol, additionally identified to be Banksy’s long-supposed stomping floor.
He was a pupil at Bristol Cathedral Faculty.
Robin’s father, Peter Gordon Gunningham, was a retired contracts supervisor from the Whitehall space of Bristol.
His mom, Pamela Ann Dawkin-Jones, was an organization director’s secretary and grew up within the unique environment of Clifton the place he additionally has an older sister known as Sarah.
When Robin was 9, the household moved to a bigger residence in the identical avenue and it’s there he spent his youth and have become considering graffiti.
Who’s Pleasure Millward?
Pleasure Millward, the suspected spouse of Banksy, has by no means damaged her silence on rampant hypothesis.
The lobbyist, from the West Midlands, is known to have met Gunningham in 2003, simply earlier than she began working as a researcher for Labour MP Austin Mitchell.
They acquired hitched in Las Vegas in 2006 and have been married for 17 years.
A supply beforehand claimed the couple lived in an remoted group and had “little to do with even their closest neighbours”.
An insider informed the Mail: “Even these they sometimes converse to don’t know who they are surely.
“The one individuals who know his actual identification are these within the internal circle, who’ve been vetted.
“A few of Pleasure’s family haven’t been informed who her husband is or what he does.”
COURT CASE
Banksy’s actual identification may very well be uncovered imminently because the artist battles a defamation case in Excessive Court docket.
His co-defendant is the artist’s firm Pest Management Ltd, which sells his work.
Andrew Gallagher, 56, has taken the case towards the famed graffiti artist.
Mr Gallagher is an iconoclastic entrepreneur who organised raves within the Nineties, earlier than shifting over to {photograph} graffiti paintings.
In an interview final yr he stated: “I did not understand it on the time, however a lot of the images I took have been by a brand new child on the block who glided by the identify of Banksy.”
Graffiti pioneer Andrew Gallagher, 56, filed the lawsuit – however his lawyer, Aaron Wooden of Brandsmiths, beforehand stated: “I am not at liberty to say any extra concerning the declare.”
Whereas Banksy efficiently utilized for an EU trademark in 2014, that ruling was overturned when Mr Gallagher appealed in 2021.
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