urbanflik
New Member
🗨️ 484
👍🏻 372
February 2010
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by urbanflik on Mar 1, 2021 17:20:44 GMT 1, legit
legit
|
|
Pipes
Junior Member
🗨️ 2,438
👍🏻 2,883
January 2012
|
|
|
oooomska
New Member
🗨️ 110
👍🏻 170
November 2018
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by oooomska on Mar 1, 2021 17:42:38 GMT 1, Legit! And I'd like to see the usual suspects try to angle-grind this off the wall. I reckon that's the real point Banksy is making. Come on then dickheads, try and remove this one.
Legit! And I'd like to see the usual suspects try to angle-grind this off the wall. I reckon that's the real point Banksy is making. Come on then dickheads, try and remove this one.
|
|
LJCal
Junior Member
🗨️ 2,980
👍🏻 4,523
December 2019
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by LJCal on Mar 1, 2021 18:28:59 GMT 1, If this is Banksy,Wondering how this is going to be perceive by all the good people on lockdown . Travels out of area ,to graffiti a grade 2 listed building, what’s the message !
If this is Banksy,Wondering how this is going to be perceive by all the good people on lockdown . Travels out of area ,to graffiti a grade 2 listed building, what’s the message ! Probably zero fucks given |
|
Gunny
Junior Member
🗨️ 1,605
👍🏻 1,118
July 2012
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by Gunny on Mar 1, 2021 18:35:49 GMT 1, He must have got permission for this, surely? If not, the security in our country is shocking!
He must have got permission for this, surely? If not, the security in our country is shocking!
|
|
nik2000
New Member
🗨️ 312
👍🏻 274
October 2017
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by nik2000 on Mar 1, 2021 19:04:09 GMT 1,
|
|
|
|
kjg
Junior Member
🗨️ 4,387
👍🏻 6,343
December 2014
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by kjg on Mar 1, 2021 19:09:18 GMT 1, But Robert del Naja doesn’t have dreads, does he?
But Robert del Naja doesn’t have dreads, does he?
|
|
FЯ
Full Member
🗨️ 8,264
👍🏻 9,252
May 2013
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by FЯ on Mar 1, 2021 19:18:31 GMT 1, Banksy does wear a disguise a lot since that DM article
Banksy does wear a disguise a lot since that DM article
|
|
Snakes
New Member
🗨️ 543
👍🏻 401
October 2012
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by Snakes on Mar 1, 2021 20:04:30 GMT 1, Very nicely executed and what a location. Bet he could not do something similar at Belmarsh though.
Very nicely executed and what a location. Bet he could not do something similar at Belmarsh though.
|
|
|
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by visualverite on Mar 1, 2021 20:33:08 GMT 1, But Robert del Naja doesn’t have dreads, does he?
This the guy?
But Robert del Naja doesn’t have dreads, does he? This the guy? |
|
Fake
Artist
Junior Member
🗨️ 2,376
👍🏻 2,144
July 2008
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by Fake on Mar 1, 2021 20:41:59 GMT 1, This is def Banksy.. but I don't get the meaning behind this piece..
This is def Banksy.. but I don't get the meaning behind this piece..
|
|
beau
New Member
🗨️ 660
👍🏻 81
November 2006
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by beau on Mar 1, 2021 21:00:00 GMT 1, Here you go ^^^
Since I had no idea what this was all about I did some searching : The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol (/rɛ.dɪŋ.dʒeɪl/) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen,[1] earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed.[2][3] Wilde wrote the poem in mid-1897 while staying with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge; it moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners as a whole.[4] No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them, but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. Wilde juxtaposes the executed man and himself with the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves".[5] Wilde too was separated from his wife and sons. He adopted the proletarian ballad form, and suggested it be published in Reynold's Magazine, "because it circulates widely among the criminal classes – to which I now belong – for once I will be read by my peers – a new experience for me".[6]
Here you go ^^^ Since I had no idea what this was all about I did some searching : The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol (/rɛ.dɪŋ.dʒeɪl/) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen,[1] earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed.[2][3] Wilde wrote the poem in mid-1897 while staying with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge; it moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners as a whole.[4] No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them, but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. Wilde juxtaposes the executed man and himself with the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves".[5] Wilde too was separated from his wife and sons. He adopted the proletarian ballad form, and suggested it be published in Reynold's Magazine, "because it circulates widely among the criminal classes – to which I now belong – for once I will be read by my peers – a new experience for me".[6] |
|
avec art
Junior Member
🗨️ 3,727
👍🏻 3,061
March 2014
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by avec art on Mar 1, 2021 21:26:41 GMT 1, 
|
|
|
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by Lroy on Mar 1, 2021 21:30:15 GMT 1, To be fair he might live in the area... If we go with the cooperative theory of artists that makes Banksy, one of the members that painted it lives in Whitley wood
good point !
To be fair he might live in the area... If we go with the cooperative theory of artists that makes Banksy, one of the members that painted it lives in Whitley wood good point ! |
|
|
|
eibbor
New Member
🗨️ 18
👍🏻 27
January 2018
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by eibbor on Mar 1, 2021 21:30:41 GMT 1, ibb.co/wdfm59D
Outed 🤷🏿♂️
|
|
|
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by Lroy on Mar 1, 2021 21:31:48 GMT 1,
Nice photo !
|
|
irl1
Full Member
🗨️ 9,274
👍🏻 9,381
December 2017
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by irl1 on Mar 1, 2021 21:50:25 GMT 1, Banksy dropping off gods ultimate noise to do his porridge 
Banksy dropping off gods ultimate noise to do his porridge |
|
mrizzle
Junior Member
🗨️ 2,215
👍🏻 3,498
January 2016
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by mrizzle on Mar 1, 2021 21:54:43 GMT 1, This is def Banksy.. but I don't get the meaning behind this piece..
This article is quite good and helps potentially unpick the message:
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-56231364
|
|
|
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by stillborncrisps on Mar 1, 2021 21:59:49 GMT 1,
Thought it was bedsheets with a typewriter tied to the end from the other pics (which didn't make much sense), but can see now in this close up he's using his own typed words to escape. V nice.
Thought it was bedsheets with a typewriter tied to the end from the other pics (which didn't make much sense), but can see now in this close up he's using his own typed words to escape. V nice. |
|
gross
New Member
🗨️ 180
👍🏻 93
January 2020
|
|
|
Rubberneck
Junior Member
🗨️ 1,050
👍🏻 1,433
October 2018
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by Rubberneck on Mar 1, 2021 22:09:55 GMT 1, Thought this write up on where the wall Facebook page is the best I’ve read so far
Location is on the former Reading Gaol prison in the UK, featuring a prisoner escaping on a knotted illustrative pun showing the strength of literature & reference to the type writer, related to the fact the Irish poet & playwright Oscar Wilde, who was imprisioned here between 1895-97. While here he wrote the poem, Ballad of Reading Gaol. Wilde was part of the Aesthetic movement which held that art should stand for beauty alone. Currently the local art community want to turn the site into a community arts hub but developers want to redevelop the site for housing.
Thought this write up on where the wall Facebook page is the best I’ve read so far
Location is on the former Reading Gaol prison in the UK, featuring a prisoner escaping on a knotted illustrative pun showing the strength of literature & reference to the type writer, related to the fact the Irish poet & playwright Oscar Wilde, who was imprisioned here between 1895-97. While here he wrote the poem, Ballad of Reading Gaol. Wilde was part of the Aesthetic movement which held that art should stand for beauty alone. Currently the local art community want to turn the site into a community arts hub but developers want to redevelop the site for housing.
|
|
|
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by thisisalow on Mar 1, 2021 22:17:41 GMT 1, The exact location of the piece on the wall is very nice - from a distance those darker bricks bottom right work as shadows for the end of the rope and the typewriter...
(not been there - just going from the photos)
The exact location of the piece on the wall is very nice - from a distance those darker bricks bottom right work as shadows for the end of the rope and the typewriter...
(not been there - just going from the photos)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by Daniel Silk on Mar 2, 2021 7:46:51 GMT 1,
|
|
|
|
Deleted
🗨️ 0
👍🏻
January 1970
|
|
|
eibbor
New Member
🗨️ 18
👍🏻 27
January 2018
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by eibbor on Mar 3, 2021 13:16:41 GMT 1, ![]()
|
|
FЯ
Full Member
🗨️ 8,264
👍🏻 9,252
May 2013
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by FЯ on Mar 3, 2021 14:59:01 GMT 1, Good to see H&S regs being followed. Can't have graffiti artists just doing what they want and throwing caution to the wind, can we.
maybe he did not fancy breaking his neck being a dad n’ all.
its a prison wall, not a mcdonalds.
Good to see H&S regs being followed. Can't have graffiti artists just doing what they want and throwing caution to the wind, can we. maybe he did not fancy breaking his neck being a dad n’ all. its a prison wall, not a mcdonalds. |
|
|
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by Georgie Poppit on Mar 3, 2021 15:54:13 GMT 1, Still no mention on Banksy's website - how long typically does it take for a work to appear there?
Still no mention on Banksy's website - how long typically does it take for a work to appear there?
|
|
FЯ
Full Member
🗨️ 8,264
👍🏻 9,252
May 2013
|
Banksy Street Art on Reading Prison , by FЯ on Mar 3, 2021 16:12:45 GMT 1, maybe he did not fancy breaking his neck being a dad n’ all. its a prison wall, not a mcdonalds. Why so defensive? It was a thowaway pisstake comment.
Eh
maybe he did not fancy breaking his neck being a dad n’ all. its a prison wall, not a mcdonalds. Why so defensive? It was a thowaway pisstake comment. Eh |
|
