Banksy

Visiting Bristol is like browsing an outdoor gallery. Tour the city’s streets and you’ll struggle not to find a brightly-coloured, cutting-edge piece of spray can art embellishing the walls. The birthplace of Banksy, Bristol’s constantly-evolving graffiti culture has made street art one of its most famous attractions and hunting it out is an exciting way to discover the city and suss out the culture.

Banksy in Bristol

One of the greatest enigmas of the street art scene, well, actually, any scene, is Bristol-born graffiti artist, Banksy. His identity remains one of the best-kept secrets and topics of interest throughout the world and the second the media hears wind of a potential new ‘Banksy’ piece, it immediately makes headlines. Thanks to his Bristol roots, the city is home to many of his early works and he has returned to the city twice to hold extraordinary exhibitions – one at Bristol Art & Museum and another, Dismaland in Weston-super-Mare.