Artworks

Monkey Queen by Banksy is an artwork that was published as a print in 2003 and sold during the exhibition 'Turf War', held in a warehouse in Kingsland Road in East London. The exhibition featured a stencilled image depicting Queen Elizabeth II with the face of a monkey, framed within the British Union Jack flag. In the print version Banksy, whilst reproducing the colours of the British flag, chose to modify the background to imply a shooting target. The Monkey Queen first appeared stencilled on the central window of the London club Chill Out Zone. Local authorities asked for its removal on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee on the 50th anniversary of her coronation.

His Master’s Voice is one of the earliest images made by Banksy, appearing in Bristol as a stencil in various sizes and colours, and later made as a silkscreen print. HMV is a humorous parady to the logo of the British record label founded in 1920 'His Masters Voice' following the advent of wind-up gramophones. The original logo showed a dog looking curiously at a gramophone, listening to its owner’s voice. Banksy transformed the scene so that the dog, exhausted from listening, aims a bazooka at the gramophone.