He fooled the newspapers, he fooled the locals but now Cumbria’s Banksy imposter is coming unstuck
I love the idea of Cumbria providing a milieu for a rural version (albeit fake) of Banksy. This article tells us:
If you are given a stencil by a man claiming to be “Robin Banks” don’t book that expensive holiday just yet as this Banksy is a fake.
A man who appears to be cashing in on the anonymity of the most successful street artist in the world has been doing the rounds near Penrith, Cumbria of late, giving a print to a schoolboy on a train and popping into a local restaurant to describe the décor as “funky”.
Two murals in the style of Banksy have also appeared at local beauty spot Lacy Caves, north of Little Salkeld, near Penrith (see photos, below).
He’s fooled several national newspapers as well as more than a handful of individuals. Trouble is, “Robin Banks” is so keen to introduce himself as the famous street artist (not to mention to give work away) that locals are smelling a rat rather like the ones Banksy stencils.