Banksy paints a self-portrait on the side of an East End office block
Is the street art star a former public school boy?
11 May 2009
COULD this be the first ever self-portrait by Banksy?
The stencil work, which has popped up on the side of a Shoreditch office block, is being hailed by some as the elusive street artist's confession that he is, in fact, a former public schoolboy.
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It features his trademark 'rat in a necklace' holding a placard bearing the face of a bespectacled man.
The image appears to be a copy of a photograph of Robin Gunningham, 35 - previously "outed" by the press as Banksy.
Gunningham is a former pupil at the £9,240-a-year Bristol Cathedral School, whose last registered address was in Hackney.
So could this be Banksy's final coy unmasking?
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