Hula Hooping Girl

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hula Hooping Girl
ArtistBanksy
LocationNottingham, United Kingdom
Preceded byIf You Don't Mask, You Don't Get
Followed byCreate Escape

Hula Hooping Girl is a piece of street art, created by Banksy. On 13 October 2020, it appeared on a wall in Nottingham, England.[1] Media reports followed the appearance of the artwork that is had been created by Banksy. On October 17, Banksy claimed the artwork after posting a picture of it on his Instagram account.

Artwork[edit]

The work is painted onto a wall at the side of a beauty salon in Nottingham. It depicts a young girl hula-hooping with a bicycle tire, next to a bicycle that is missing its rear wheel, attached to a nearby signpost.[2]

As with many Banksy artworks, it was vandalised a couple of days after the artist posted it on his Instagram. On 22 November 2020, the bicycle that made up part of the work had been removed from the signpost.[3] By the next day, it had been replaced with a different bicycle, without a rear wheel, in the same location.[4]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Holmes, Helen (19 October 2020). "Banksy Departs From His Recent Political Art With Graffiti of a Hula-Hooping Girl". The Observer. Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Banksy claims Nottingham hula-hooping girl artwork". BBC. 18 October 2020. Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Bike from Banksy's Nottingham hula-hooping girl vanishes". BBC News. 22 November 2020. Archived from the original on 23 November 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Banksy: Bike from Nottingham hula-hooping girl replaced". BBC News. 23 November 2020. Archived from the original on 23 November 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.