Banksy’s first street art mural

Witness History

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History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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World-renowned street artist Banksy started spray-painting the walls of his home city of Bristol in the 1990s. It is widely believed that his first large mural was a piece called Mild, Mild West painted on a wall next to a record shop. Jim Paine owned the shop and has been telling Bethan Head how he played a pivotal role in getting Banksy to do the artwork in the first place.

(Graffiti street art, entitled Mild, Mild West, by British street artist Banksy, is pictured on the side of a building in Bristol, south west England, on May 8, 2019.. Credit: Geoff Caddick/Getty Images)

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0:30.9	Now on the BBC World Service, Witness History with me Bethanhead.
0:40.0	And today we go back to 1999 and the city of Bristol in the southwest of England,
0:46.2	where the world famous graffiti artist Banksy now has art on the wars of New York, Paris and Bethlehem.
1:01.6	His works sell for a staggering amount with one recently earning
1:06.5	13.7 million dollars at auction. Although it's difficult to pinpoint Banksy's first work, it's widely believed that
1:15.5	a mural showing a large cartoon teddy bear throwing a Molotov cocktail at three
1:21.0	riot police is his first recognized large piece of art.
1:26.0	It appeared in 1999 in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol and is known as Mild,
1:32.0	Wild West. Who's the aggressor? Bristol and is known as mild, mild west.
1:34.0	Who's the aggressor in the picture?
1:36.0	The fluffy raver slash image of the bear with the motel cocktail
1:40.0	or the police who are encroaching on their space.
1:42.9	One begets the other.
1:45.0	To me, it's a fluffy raver with a backlash.
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