All the clues Robin Gunningham is Banksy and how he lives mysterious life with elusive wife Joy Millward | 8KO82G1 | 2024-02-26 06:08:01
Many individuals believe he is the graffiti artist after mysteri
BANKSY'S actual id has been wildly speculated – and there are various clues pointing in the direction of Robin Gunningham.
Many individuals believe he is the graffiti artist after mysterious pictures appeared to point out him engaged on a famous Banksy in 2004.
It comes as Banksy's real id might be revealed in simply days as the elusive painter faces a High Court battle.
The anonymous artist has discovered himself the topic of legal motion accusing him of defamation.
Many speculate Gunningham's identify can be exposed after finding what is believed to be 'proof'.
Both Banksy and Gunningham seem to stay in the identical places on the similar time paintings pops up.
In 1998 Gunningham was dwelling in Easton, Bristol, and on the similar time Banksy painted the well-known Delicate Delicate West signal, which exhibits a stuffed bear with a Molotov cocktail.
Banksy's signature paintings was then present in London in 2000, the same yr Gunningham lived in a flat in Kingsland Street,& Hackney.
Nevertheless, former flatmate and good friend Luke Egan stated previously: "I lived with a guy, with Robin Gunningham. However he wasn't [Banksy] then.
"I lived with him ages ago. I don't assume Banksy was round then anyway."
MAJOR CLUE
Theories surrounding Banksy's id have been sparked in 2008 when a photograph was circulated of a person sporting darkish denims and a navy shirt.
It was taken in Kingston,& Jamaica, in 2004 and appeared to point out Banksy smiling while he labored on his newest challenge.
The person, believed to be the well-known graffiti artist, was crouched in front of a bag with stencils and spray paint.
Peter Dean Rickards, who captured the second, confirmed it was of Banksy after leaking the pictures – nevertheless it has never been formally confirmed.
He was stated to have fallen out with the artist.
"Banksy swanned round Jamaica as if he owned the place," he informed the Night Normal.
"He's an excessive amount of of a p***y to protest having his picture taken once he discovered himself in Kingston, Jamaica—nowhere near the great, protected media workplaces . . . that he's accustomed to."
A person who claimed to know Banksy did affirm the image showed Mr Gunningham, in accordance with the Mail.
ARTWORK LEFT BEHIND
Another piece of evidence some individuals say points in the direction of Gunningham is gadgets he left behind in his Bristol residence.
He lived there with pal Egan however the property was purchased by Camilla Stacey, a curator at Bristol's Here Gallery, in 2000.
She claimed the artist had lived at the house as a result of he left items of paintings behind.
Camilla stated: "I purchased the home that he used to reside in. He had rented out a room however I feel there had been problems with the tenants and the owner needed to type of repossess it or no matter, so he was simply selling it.
"Once I moved in, the place had been coated in graffiti and stuff like that. I threw things within the bin."
Who is Robin Gunningham
Robin was born in 1973 in& Bristol, also recognized to be Banksy's long-supposed stomping ground.
He was a pupil at Bristol Cathedral Faculty.
Robin's father,& Peter& Gordon Gunningham, was a retired contracts supervisor from the Whitehall space of Bristol.
His mother, Pamela Ann Dawkin-Jones, was a company director's secretary and grew up within the exclusive environment of Clifton the place he also has an older sister referred to as Sarah.
When Robin was 9, the household moved to a bigger residence in the same road and it's there he spent his early life and became focused on graffiti.
Who is Joy Millward?&
Joy Millward, the suspected spouse of Banksy, has by no means broken her silence on rampant hypothesis.
The lobbyist, from the West Midlands, is understood to have met Gunningham in 2003, just before she started working as a researcher for& Labour& MP Austin Mitchell.
They received hitched in& Las Vegas& in 2006 and have been married for 17 years.
A supply beforehand claimed the couple lived in an isolated group and had "little to do with even their closest neighbours".
An insider advised the Mail: "Even these they sometimes converse to do not know who they really are.
"The only people who know his actual id are these in the internal circle, who've been vetted.
"A few of Joy's relations haven't been informed who her husband is or what he does."
COURT CASE
Banksy's actual id could possibly be uncovered imminently as the artist battles a defamation case in High Court.
His co-defendant is the artist's firm Pest Management Ltd, which sells his work.
Andrew Gallagher, 56, has taken the case towards the famed graffiti artist.
Mr Gallagher is an iconoclastic entrepreneur who organised raves within the 1990s, before shifting over to photograph graffiti paintings.
In an interview last yr he stated: "I didn't understand it at the time, however a lot of the pictures I took have been by a new child on the block who glided by the identify of Banksy."
Graffiti pioneer Andrew Gallagher, 56, filed the lawsuit – however his lawyer, Aaron Wooden of Brandsmiths, previously stated: "I'm not at liberty to say any more concerning the declare."
Whereas Banksy successfully utilized for an EU trademark in 2014, that ruling was overturned when Mr Gallagher appealed in 2021.
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