Does Grimsby have its very own Banksy?
MYSTERIOUS ARTWORK IN THE STYLE OF THE SECRETIVE ARTIST APPEARS NEAR TETNEY LOCK
A MYSTERIOUS new artwork has appeared on an industrial building near Tetney Lock prompting people to question whether Grimsby might have its own secretive artist. The artwork certainly evokes the style of the famously camera-shy Banksy who continues to create his own works of social commentary up and down the country. The piece depicts a child in a coat with a backpack looking over toward a paper aeroplane that is flying away from them towards the water and the wide open space of Tetney Lock. Passers by on the weir along Newton
Marsh Lane seemed intrigued by the artwork which drew some smiles from dog walkers and other people using this scenic spot.
One woman said she thought it did look like the style of Banksy but said she was sure he wouldn’t have come all the way out here to create something somewhere so remote.
The artwork appears to have been marked by the artist at the bottom of the wall with a name that could be ‘SKNS’. The latest official Banksy work was confirmed in Nottingham on October 13 and included a graffiti girl hula hooping a bike tyre and an actual bike chained to a lamppost.
Unfortunately at the start of this week, that artwork was the target of vandals or thieves who have removed the bike from the post, possibly not realising it was part of the artist creation.
Nottingham resident Tracy Jayne told the BBC: “The artwork records an important part of Nottingham’s history, Raleigh bikes. “My late husband worked for Raleigh until it closed in 2002. He died at age 48 in 2017.
“It’s such a shame if someone has stolen the bike. It’s sheer disrespect and saddens me very much.”
As for Grimsby’s own artwork? While it might not be a piece from Britain’s most notorious graffiti artist, it is certainly intriguing to have our own unknown creator at work.
The artwork records an important part of Nottingham’s history, Raleigh bikes
Tracy Jayne