Banksy: The tales behind his ‘Nice British Spraycation’

Banksy mural featuring dancing couple in Great Yarmouth

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By Orla Moore & Laurence Cawley
BBC News, East

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The couple are still dancing in the Banksy mural on Admiralty Road, Great Yarmouth

Over the course of a week last summer, a number of street art pieces appeared in seemingly random parts of Norfolk and Suffolk. The artworks were eventually verified by Banksy, but the fate of each piece varied drastically. What has become of them – one year on?

In early August 2021, one by one, graffiti started to appear in Cromer, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Oulton Broad.

They bore the hallmarks of Banksy: the slogans, the humour, the anonymity, the skill.

But it took a week of nervous hope and speculation before the artist claimed responsibility in a three-minute video, titled A Great British Spraycation.

It depicted him casually making his way around the East in a battered left-hand drive campervan, complete with beach windbreaker, ladders – and a cool box full of spray cans.

One of them was installed, perhaps…

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