Banksy Vs Bristol Museum

I had planned to make a trip to see the Banksy exhibition since it first opened. However, I left it a month or so to let the queues die down. I thought it would be fine in mid-august. How wrong I was...

I made the trip down on a Wednesday knowing that there was a late opening until 7.30pm. I joined the queue around 4pm and stepped through the doors around 1hr 45mins later. I had thought it would have been a 2-2 and half hour wait so I pleased I'd got in abit earlier. The exhibition was awesome. I not a museum enthusiast, and I am not really up on fine art or even modern art for that matter. I have just always admired what Banksy has done and acheived, whilst holding onto this anonymity. His art speaks for him and most of his work embodies political opinion and some personal opinion.

The thing that I liked a lot was the animatronic installations. One showed a rabbit willingly applying make up, one was a fish bowl containing a swimming fish finger, and my favourite were the CCTV cameras in a birds nest. Feel free to look at picture gallery as I took quite a few.

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I also went around Bristol the following day in search of Banksy's work around the city. I found a few pieces but I am sure there are many more. One piece in the city centre had been attacked by paintball fire but that's what fame and popularity brings, someone always wants to spoil that. The city itself was nice but due to the long drive I could not stay as long as I'd wanted too, but I am so glad I caught the exhibition.