2002 – Banksy unofficial

2002, 2003, Street Art, UK

Street Art in UK. 2002 – 2003

17 April, 201722 January, 2024by banksyunofficial

Banksy focused on London in 2002 and 2003, but he also did a few pieces in Bristol and Brighton. The iconic work Pulp Fiction went up in 2002 on Old Street in Shoreditch, one of Banksy’s preferred areas in London. The Royal Guards in different areas of London are from the same period.

2002, Exhibitions, UK

Santa’s Ghetto 02, London. December 2002

16 April, 201724 March, 2023by banksyunofficial

Santa’s Ghetto was a “squat art concept store” set up at Christmas each year in different locations around London. The Dragons Bar in Shoreditch hosted the first edition.

2002, Exhibitions, USA

Existencilism, Los Angeles. July 2002

16 April, 201724 February, 2024by banksyunofficial

Banksy held his first Los Angeles exhibition, Existencilism, at the 33 1/3 Gallery on 19 July 2002. A few years later, he returned to LA with Barely Legal.

2002, Books

Banksy’s second book, Existencilism. May 2002.

16 April, 201722 January, 2024by banksyunofficial

Banksy’s second book sees the light in May 2002 and is heavier on rats than his first.

“Like most people I have a fantasy that all the little powerless losers will gang up together. That all the vermin will get some good equipment and then the underground will go overground and tear the city apart”

2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, Europe (excl. UK), Rest of the world, Street Art

Early street art abroad. 2000-2003.

16 April, 201722 January, 2024by banksyunofficial

In the first years of the decade, besides the UK and US, Banksy went to Barcelona, Berlin, Vienna, Tokyo, Paris, and Palestine, where he painted the first stencilled version of the iconic Love is in the Air behind a gas station in Bethlehem.