southcoasthammer wrote:

. Much of Banksy's work could also be carried off by you and me but what I love about it is the subversive and satirical nature. He also made it accessible to the public and to an extent democratised it by taking it out of the so called elitist sector of galleries and museums.

Much of Banksy's work is fucking vandalism. I have no wish to spend my life walking through graffitti covered streets, avoiding the scum that are attracted by them just so some up their own arse pseud who lives in Brighton can pronounce how they admire the democracy of the artistic form.

He should be banged up, not sucked up to.