The organisers of a spoof British art competition claim they have caught the guerrilla artist Banksy trying to out-spoof them.

The judges of the annual Turnip Prize were far from impressed by a professional-looking entry they suspect came from the secretive Bristol graffiti artist. Under the strict entry criteria for the pastiche competition the artists must have spent as little time on their work as possible.

Suspicion has mounted about the identity of the artist since the artwork was dumped outside the New Inn pub in Somerset. The pub has been running its own annual art prize as an antidote to the “pretentious” Turner Prize since 1999.

The anonymous entry bears all the sardonic hallmarks of Banksy, the anonymous street artist whose work now sells to wealthy collectors for hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The painting shows a stencilled Mona Lisa firing a turnip from a bazooka. The rocket-launched vegetable is shown flying over a seaside pier below the word ‘Banksea’.

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You know. If you dig enough around the net you can find him. Not that hard at all. Or maybe I’m just good at tracking info down on the net. Either way here’s the story.

Hip British graffiti artist Bansky, whose true identity has long remained a mystery, was thrust into the spotlight Wednesday after the publication of a snatched picture allegedly of him at work.

A man believed to be Banksy, whose works sell for tens of thousands of pounds around the world, was caught on camera working on a new picture in an east London street, according to The Times.

His latest work depicts a huge sunflower, formed by diverting the double yellow parking lines from a street gutter across a pavement up onto the side of a house, flanked by a picture of a paint-roller wielding artist.

But the artist himself was believed to have been caught at work for the first time, by a passerby who took a picture on his mobile phone camera, the daily said.

“We never confirm or deny whether any image shows Banksy,” a spokesman for the artist told The Times, which printed the photo of a black-haired man in jeans a camouflage jacket, with a pollution-protecting mask on his head.

Read More: Wall of secrecy: elusive graffiti artist uncovered?

They’re just getting younger and younger! And I thought I was a youngin’ when I started!!

A 13-YEAR-OLD boy will go on trial after denying 19 counts of causing criminal damage by scrawling graffiti.

The string of charges covers about £4,500 of damage, with two individual incidents costing a total of £3,500 alone.

The offences date from between June 2006 and April this year.

He cannot be identified for legal reasons. Police raided the boy’s home in Beatrice Street, Gorse Hill, in early April.

It is alleged spray cans, pictures of tags and other items were found in his bedroom.

They struck in the belief that the youngster was responsible for the tags LV, SCOPE and FELT – with LV having been identified as one of the six most prolific scrawls in Swindon.

Read More: Boy, 13, denies 19 counts of graffiti

Like my play on words? Hehe.

A slogan created by an artist who famously burned £1m has been scrubbed off the wall of a Sussex art gallery by cleaners who mistook it for graffiti.

James Cauty used white emulsion paint to scrawl “Portslade Massif” across the window and wall of the Ink-d gallery in Brighton to advertise his exhibition.

The Rize and Fall of the Portslade Massif opened there on Thursday.

Brighton and Hove City Council said the removal of the writing by its graffiti team was a “genuine mistake”.

But gallery studio director Dan Hipkin questioned the action, and said the slogan had been on private property.

He said he believed the cleaners feared the slogan – which referred to the exhibition’s theme of gang culture – would create gang warfare locally.

“Brighton and Hove City Council, like anywhere, have problems with graffiti gangs but this is private property and my problems with the cleaning crew doing this is more about freedom of expression.

“Who holds the right to say what is and isn’t a form of expression?

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Dovcom? ABS, England U.K. was sentenced today.

A vandal linked to more than 1,000 graffiti incidents causing more than £200,000 in damage has been sentenced to 300 hours’ community service.

Daniel Tyndale, 21, who has had addresses in St Philips, Bristol and Devizes, Wiltshire, received a 12-month jail sentence suspended for two years.

He admitted a series of offences throughout the Bristol area.

He was charged with nine counts of criminal damage with 350 other graffiti offences being considered.

Tyndale sprayed graffiti on numerous locations including the listed Bristol University psychology building, a van on Gloucester Road, the Polish church on Cheltenham Road, a shop near Christmas Steps, Newfoundland Road police station and the metal footbridge near Bower Ashton.

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“Raider” busted for being a top deck vandal wussy.

A prolific graffiti vandal has been banned from the top deck of any public transport bus anywhere in the country.

Billy Murrell, 17, from Plumstead, south-east London, has several criminal damage convictions on trains and buses using marker pens, police said.

It is the first time Transport for London (TfL) has obtained an anti-social order against a “tagger”.

The order also bans Murrell from carrying marker pens or sharp instruments on public transport.

The anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) which is valid for three years, was issued at Greenwich Magistrates Court on 12 September.

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Banksy, an anonymous graffiti artist who graduated from the U.K. streets to the auction rooms, will be represented in the London October sales with at least eight works at Sotheby’s.

Banksy’s “David,” a 2006 fiberglass tribute to Michelangelo’s 500-year-old statue in Florence, has a top estimate of 150,000 pounds ($299,655) for Sotheby’s contemporary art auction on Oct. 12, according to preliminary catalog information.

“Gangster Rat” from 2004, an acrylic and spray paint stencil on canvas, has a top estimate of 12,000 pounds for an Oct. 15-day sale.

Banksy spray-paints works of political satire in the London streets and has attracted collectors including artist Damien Hirst. Banksy’s record of 288,000 pounds was set for a design commissioned by the pop band Blur, at a Bonhams London auction in April, more than doubling the artist’s previous peak price.

Read More: Banksy’s `David,’ `Gangster Rat’ to Go on Sale at Sotheby’s

Who woulda’ thought?

Sharon Balbi, 42, was given an interim anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) at Reading Magistrates’ Court.

On Friday she admitted 13 offences of criminal damage and asked for a further 223 offences dating back to 2004 to be taken into consideration.

Balbi, of Tilehurst, Reading, sprayed tags, including GUS, ICE, ART, CSI and HAWK on vehicles around Reading.

The Asbo bans Balbi from carrying items that could be used for carrying out graffiti offences.

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God, I love these quotes sometimes. And at other times, they can get pretty annoying.

A JUDGE sent out a stark message to graffiti vandals yesterday by handing down prison sentences to three members of a gang which caused nearly £180,000 of damage in a wrecking spree across the region.

The gang of graffiti artists covered hundreds of buildings and railway bridges in their distinctive tags over eight months, giving transport operators a huge clean-up bill.

Network Rail alone had to pay for a £140,000 clean-up after the “crew” covered the line between Newcastle and Sunderland in their scrawls.

Read More: Jail for graffiti vandals

This is a unique find right here:

ONE OF the two jailed graffiti artists has revealed concern for his co-defendant in emotional letters sent from prison to family and friends back home.

TJ Dolan, 20, of Leek Road, Sutton, was jailed for 15 months after pleading guilty to vandalising railway property at Manchester Crown Court two weeks ago.

Writing from Lancaster Farms prison, he expressed worries about fellow spray can artist and co-defendant Tom Whittaker, 18, of Brocklehurst Avenue, who was imprisoned for 12 months after also admitting offences.

He said: “Me and Tom have been separated. I don’t know where he is. There is no reason we’re not together… and the staff don’t know why we are separated.

“I am very worried about him… and I am really concerned on how he will be coping. I’m finding not knowing increasingly difficult and feel I have to help him.”

All I have to say is this, dude stop worrying about your buddy and worry about your own ass!

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