Banksy's brilliantly witty and audacious works

Since arriving on the Bristol underground art scene over twenty years ago, Banksy - whose real identity remains a mystery - has been behind some of the most audacious and witty 'guerilla' art around the globe. As well as his distinctive graffiti, which has appeared all over London and Bristol and, most famously, on the West Bank Barrier wall in Israel, his stunts include incorporating his own artworks into the collections of major museums and featuring a live 'elephant in the room' at his 2006 Los Angeles exhibition, Barely Legal. 

2010 has seen the artist widening his oeuvre, with Exit Through the Giftshop, a 'documentary' on street art which premiered in a pop-up cinema in an underpass near Waterloo station in March, and the conception of a special set of opening credits for The Simpsons (the first time an artist had been invited to recreate the prime-time show's trademark scenes) which aired in the US and UK in October.