Banksy has self-funded the Banksy V Bristol Museum

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IT'S the news Banksy fans have all been waiting for - the biggest ever exhibition by the elusive street artist opens this weekend.

Bad news for Londoners, it's in Bristol.

But here's an exclusive glimpse of one of the new works that will form a centrepiece of the massive show.

This biting comment on our MPs, turning them all into chimps lounging around the House of Commons, is a 12ft wide work in oils.

In pictures: Banksy

It shows the fine art talents of the man best known for his graffiti stencil art.

The solo show, which has been kept strictly under wraps until now, is called Banksy Versus Bristol Museum and is held in the hallowed halls of that very establishment.

It will open to the public on Saturday and run for three months, to 31 August. There will be 100 works on show in all - 78 of which are brand new and range from fine art to sculpture, graffiti and animatronics, such as his chicken nuggets made to look like chicks, which were on show in New York last autumn.

Banksy said today: "The people of Bristol have always been very good to me - I decided the best way to show my appreciation was by putting a bunch of old toilets and some live chicken nuggets in their museum. I could have taken the show to a lot of places, but they do a very nice cup of tea in the museum."

Of the chimps work, he quipped: "You paint a hundred chimpanzees and they call you a guerrilla artist."

How to get there

Trains go from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads several times an hour. From there, it's a short bus or cab ride to the museum, which is located on Queens Road.

Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery is open 10am-5pm every day and is free to enter.

Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RL.

Banksy Versus Bristol Museum

More London street art news

The tunnels beneath Waterloo station where Banksy curated a massive graffiti festival last summer continues to attract hundreds of visitors each week.

The 200-metre walkway off Leake Street, SE1, which was the site for the Cans Festival, has been adopted by East End company picturesonwalls. Street artists continue to add to the display, which still includes pieces by Banksy.