[AJ]

What do we think?

www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/19125602.banksy-reading-artwork-appears-side-goal/?ref=twtrec

[eibbor]

Yup - will wander down later to have a look. Fits in with the campaign to stop Reading Goal being sold off to developers.

[irl1]

[Carl Cashman Art]

Nice, type writer a nod to Oscar wilde ?

[slevin]

100% Banksy

[astarti]

I would say yes!!!

[mlyelmk]

Beautiful image..100% banksy i think

[lv90210]

Nice.

[slevin]

Grade 2 listed building, will be interesting how they deal with the artwork.

[Rubberneck]

Definitely

I like that it’s impossible to be stolen like achoo and hula girl.

[AJ]

[Deleted]

The same idea like the old DRAN (man in the prison)

Image 29
www.boredpanda.com/controversial-illustrations-dran-art/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

[Majestic]

The king is back.

[Terry Fuckwitt]

Very good, it took some balls to get up there and spray that.

[Deleted]

Sure it is.

[Deleted]

Try cutting that out the wall.
Lovely stuff.

[Georgie Poppit]

Nice big wall.

[Forbidden Love]

In his eyes....it was most likely to be knocked down anyway....to which if it wasn't knocked down they can always have it cleaned off.

[tab1]

Mar 1, 2021 12:35:20 GMT 1 shrinetopoundland said:

If this is Banksy,Wondering how this is going to be perceive by all the good people on lockdown . Travels out of area ,to graffiti a grade 2 listed building, what’s the message !

Preeti Patel will make an example of Banksy for disregarding lockdown rules 😮😂
Good point though, if it is Banksy, might receive some negative press

[ART_STA]

Main stream media now reporting as well:

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/banksy-reading-prison-oscar-wilde-b1809232.html

[Terry Fuckwitt]

Mar 1, 2021 12:52:04 GMT 1 tab1 said:

Mar 1, 2021 12:35:20 GMT 1 shrinetopoundland said:

If this is Banksy,Wondering how this is going to be perceive by all the good people on lockdown . Travels out of area ,to graffiti a grade 2 listed building, what’s the message !

Preeti Patel will make an example of Banksy for disregarding lockdown rules 😮😂
Good point though, if it is Banksy, might receive some negative press

Nah, he's good😉

'You can only leave home for work purposes where it is unreasonable for you to do your job from home. This includes, but is not limited to, people who work within critical national infrastructure, construction or manufacturing that require in-person attendance'

[Alchemy Art]

AREA51 confirmed it's Banksy.

[Dahmer]

To be fair he might live in the area...

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Mar 1, 2021 13:24:10 GMT 1 Dahmer said:

To be fair he might live in the area...

I think I'd be a bit disappointed if I heard that Banksy lived in Reading...

[Dive Jedi]

Since I had no idea what this was all about I did some searching :

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol (/rɛ.dɪŋ.dʒeɪl/) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.

During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen,[1] earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed.[2][3]

Wilde wrote the poem in mid-1897 while staying with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge; it moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners as a whole.[4] No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them, but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. Wilde juxtaposes the executed man and himself with the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves".[5] Wilde too was separated from his wife and sons. He adopted the proletarian ballad form, and suggested it be published in Reynold's Magazine, "because it circulates widely among the criminal classes – to which I now belong – for once I will be read by my peers – a new experience for me".[6]

[tab1]

Mar 1, 2021 13:24:10 GMT 1 Dahmer said:

To be fair he might live in the area...

If we go with the cooperative theory of artists that makes Banksy, one of the members that painted it lives in Whitley wood

[jenko]

Mar 1, 2021 13:38:56 GMT 1 derivitive said:

Looks like a Mason Storm to me

Only thing it's missing is a big sign saying "Give me attention I'm edgy" and a torn up restraining order from the local school.

[7star]

Tab

Regarding your post about one of the members of Banksy living in whitley wood

What members do think they are

James Ame
Gunningham
Inkie
Del Naja?

[laughn0w]

With the gaol being a Grade II listed building do we think this will be claimed or could it be another Marble arch scenario?

[eibbor]

I'm not sure the outside walls are listed as recent development plans have seen them altered significantly. Grayson Perry has been down to have a mooch as well today. Who lives in Whitley Wood?