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22 DOCUMENTED WORKS◆ACTIVE SINCE 1994◆IDENTITY: UNKNOWN◆£16.8M — GAME CHANGER AUCTION◆WEST BANK BARRIER: 9 MURALS◆EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP — ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE◆DISMALAND: 150,000 VISITORS◆LOVE IS IN THE BIN: £18.6M◆BETTER OUT THAN IN: 31 NYC WORKS◆WALLED OFF HOTEL: OPEN SINCE 2017◆22 DOCUMENTED WORKS◆ACTIVE SINCE 1994◆IDENTITY: UNKNOWN◆£16.8M — GAME CHANGER AUCTION◆WEST BANK BARRIER: 9 MURALS◆EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP — ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE◆DISMALAND: 150,000 VISITORS◆LOVE IS IN THE BIN: £18.6M◆BETTER OUT THAN IN: 31 NYC WORKS◆WALLED OFF HOTEL: OPEN SINCE 2017◆

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Trolley Hunters

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extant

Trolley Hunters

YEAR

2006

MEDIUM

Spray paint / stencil

LOCATION

Bristol

COUNTRY

UK

[ DESCRIPTION ]

Prehistoric cave-painting-style figures hunt a line of supermarket trolleys instead of animals.

[ CRITICAL ANALYSIS ]

Banksy pastiches the aesthetic of Lascaux cave art to place modern consumerism in prehistoric context — suggesting that the supermarket trolley is our civilisation's equivalent of the woolly mammoth. We have replaced the hunt for survival with the hunt for consumption.

[ THEMES ]

consumerism history capitalism satire

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