Walk in Bristol
with Richie
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Banky's "The girl with pierced " works, this first appeared on the side of a building in Albion Docks in Hanover Place, in Bristol's Harbourside in October 2014.
It depicts a take on Vermeer’s famous Girl with a Pearl Earring, replacing the girl’s earring with an outdoor security alarm.
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Banksy's
The Girl with a Pierced Eardrum
1. M Shed
(0,6 mile - 11 min walking)
2. Arnolfini
(0,8 mile - 15 min walking)
3. Queen Square
(0,8 mile - 17 min walking)
4. Spike Island
(0,2 mile - 3 min walking)
(0,2 mile - 3 min walking)
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5 Nearest Attraction
Nearest Public Toilet
M Shed
(Community Toilet Scheme)
Accessible
Princes Wharf, Wapping Rd, Bristol BS1 4RN
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Richie's opinion :
" I like the streetart, If it is really artistic, so I very like Banksy's artworks.
He inspired a lot of people, because he is not just a simple street artist , he is a political activist, and film director also, and make me a little bit angry, if someone don't respect his work, and make an attack to his art ( like the Well Hung Lover) .
This Art was famous, but the COVID pandemic made it to be more famous art - Someone take a Mask to this Streetart. I hope, after the Covid pandemic , it will be the same, as the time, when I captured it.. Or can be better , if it will be with mask, to make a memory about the pandemic? :) ."
6 Nearest Banksy Streetart
( in M Shed)
(0,6 mile - 11 min walking)
2. Banksy's You Don't Need Planning Permission to Build Castles in the Sky
(0,5 mile - 11 min walking)
(0,7 mile - 15 min walking)
( in Bristol Museum)
(0,9 mile - 22 min walking)
5. Banksy's The Mild Mild West
(1,6 mile - 33 min walking)
(1,6 mile - 36 min walking)
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History
The art first appeared on the side of a building in Albion Docks in Hanover Place, in Bristol’s Harbourside in October 2014.
The image, a parody of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, was posted on his website.
Girl with a Pierced Eardrum is painted on a building in Hanover Place in the city's Harbourside and incorporates an alarm box as the model's earring.
A row broke out over who owned it with Bristol City Council arguing the work was on its land.
However Banksy wrote to Broad Plain Boys' Club saying it was theirs and the club sold it to a private collector for £403,000.
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