Banksy v Bristol Museum

The celebrated British graffiti artist Banksy put on a solo show at the Bristol museum in late summer this year - which was so popular that the queues to get in on weekends during the 3 month exhibition were over 3 hours long. We decided to head down and join the queues to get in and see how he'd taken over the place.

(Note - for anyone from NZ who hasn't heard of Banksy here's a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy. Shaun also took a photo of one of his wall stencils which is down the road from us, in an earlier blog entry - October 2008).

I especially liked the Michael Jackson 'Hansel & Gretel' style one (above) and the installation with the hen and the little Chicken McNuggets.

While a dedicated section of the museum featured his paintings, graffiti and art installations, in other parts of the museum things had been subtly altered (temporarily- I'm pretty sure this was a print!) ...

All in all, thought provoking and well worth the wait - and a chance to have a quick wander around Bristol for the morning as well.

M