{"id":393505,"date":"2026-03-19T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/393505\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:47:12","slug":"banksys-identity-finally-revealed-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/393505\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksy\u2019s Identity Finally Revealed, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/global-art-banksy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reuters investigation<\/strong><\/a> has reportedly revealed the identity of the infamous British street artist known as <a href=\"https:\/\/galeriemagazine.com\/banksy-girl-balloon-stunt-misfire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Banksy<\/strong><\/a>. The revelation, which stems from previous court records and police reports, names the stencil-style artist as Robin Gunningham and says he later changed his name to David Jones, although it is not clear whether he has changed it again. Banksy\u2019s longtime lawyer Mark Stephens said the artist \u201cdoes not accept that many of the details contained within your enquiry are correct,\u201d \u00a0but did not confirm or deny his identity.<\/p>\n<p>Banksy, whose most famous works include <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sothebys.com\/en\/press\/banksys-love-is-in-the-bin-returns-to-sothebys-london?locale=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Girl with Balloon<\/a><\/strong>, Love Is in the Air (Flower Thrower), and Devolved Parliament, was allegedly nabbed in 2000 in New York City for climbing a roof and defacing a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/galeriemagazine.com\/art-fashion-collabs-2024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Jacobs<\/a><\/strong> billboard. Records pertaining to the incident include a handwritten confession that stated, \u201cI painted eyeshadow a new mouth and a speech bubble of the billboard,\u201d with Robin Gunningham\u2019s signature at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1174\" height=\"811\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"block-article-images__image\" alt=\"Helicopters flying in blue sky with clouds, main helicopter adorned with a pink bow.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Happy-Choppers-Banksy-1174x811.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHappy Choppers by Bansky.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Courtesy of Sotheby\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the artist have been published in the past, but did not state his name. At a 2018 Sotheby\u2019s auction of Girl with Balloon, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/galeriemagazine.com\/the-8-biggest-moments-in-art-2018\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>piece was shredded<\/strong><\/a> by a built-in mechanism, art dealer Robert Casterline told Reuters that a man in peculiar glasses was watching the crowd while they looked on, with a video of the shock later appearing on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/banksy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Banksy\u2019s Instagram<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Reuters investigation has reportedly revealed the identity of the infamous British street artist known as Banksy. 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