What is the best Banksy artwork of all time?
From walls in Palestine to auction houses in London, Banksy's provocations have made the world stop and think. Which masterpiece hits you hardest?
Girl with Balloon
Banksy's most iconic stencil showing a young girl reaching for a heart-shaped red balloon, originally painted in London in 2002 and voted the UK's favourite artwork in a national poll.
Love Is in the Air
A 2003 stencil depicting a masked protester hurling a bouquet of flowers instead of a weapon, first appearing on the West Bank Wall in Palestine.
Love is in the Bin
The 2018 moment when Girl with Balloon self-destructed at Sotheby's auction the instant it was sold, shredding through its frame in front of stunned bidders.
Napalm
A disturbing commentary on consumerism in which Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald escort the Napalm Girl from the iconic 1972 Vietnam War photograph.
Pulp Fiction
A Banksy spin on the Tarantino classic showing John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson's characters pointing bananas instead of guns at the camera.
Dismaland
Banksy's full-scale dystopian theme park installed in Weston-super-Mare in 2015, described as a 'bemusement park' satirising consumer culture and fairy tales.
Devolved Parliament
A large oil painting depicting chimpanzees debating in the British House of Commons, which sold for £9.9 million in 2019.
Trolley Hunters
A stencil parodying prehistoric cave paintings, showing Stone Age hunters pursuing supermarket shopping trolleys across a cave wall.
The Rage, Flower Thrower
A variation on the flower-thrower motif painted on a wall in Jerusalem, one of Banksy's most reproduced prints worldwide.
Balloon Girl (Shredder Print)
The limited artist-authorised print produced after the Sotheby's shredding event, featuring the half-shredded image with a new title and authentication.
Kissing Coppers
A Brighton mural showing two male police officers sharing a kiss, challenging homophobia and authority through tenderness rather than confrontation.
Shop Until You Drop
A stencil of a falling woman clutching shopping bags, painted on a London building to mock rampant consumerism.
Sweep It Under the Carpet
A maid figure lifting wallpaper to brush dirt beneath, exposing the hidden mess society prefers to ignore.
Game Changer
Created during the Covid-19 pandemic and donated to NHS Southampton, showing a child playing with a nurse superhero action figure.
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