Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off grandest stunt to date - despite being watched by CCTV

by amyjudd | April 14, 2008 at 02:35 pm | 993 views | 10 comments

England's most famous graffiti artist has pulled off yet another fantastic stunt - right under the noses of the CCTV cameras. This latest work is believed to be his biggest yet and it's right in the middle of central London.

The secretive graffiti artist managed to erect three storeys of scaffolding behind a security fence despite being watched by a CCTV camera.

Then, during darkness and hidden behind a sheet of polythene, he painted this comment on 'Big Brother' society.

Yesterday the scaffolding gang returned to remove all evidence - again without the camera operator stopping them.

The work, above a Post Office yard in Newman Street near Oxford Circus, shows a small boy, watched by a security guard, painting the words: 'One nation under CCTV.'

Andrew Newman, 35, a businessman from Dulwich, who works locally, said: 'It was only on Sunday morning that the Post Offices guys realised what had happened.'

You're being watched: Despite being observed by CCTV cameras, elusive grafitti artist Banksy managed to create his latest - and biggest - work to date under the cover of darkness

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Jarrett Martineau

at 14:43 on April 14th, 2008

good stuff:

And just when you wonder what he'll get away with next...he does this! Amazing and on point as always. I heart Banksy. Good stuff.

amyjudd

at 14:45 on April 14th, 2008

Thanks, I heart Banksy too. I have seen many of his works around London, as he used to do a lot of them just down the street from my university. They have always fascinated me.

eliotlovell

at 15:30 on April 14th, 2008

not convinced it wasn't a legitimate piece of graffiti. considering the CCTV (duh!) and it's a 24 hour postal sorting office, so plenty of security around. and it's inside a pretty high fence. i can't believe they wouldn't have tried to stop him if he hadn't been meant to do it.

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