Banksy (Dismaland) Weston Super Mare 2015

On the subject of the gift prints, seeing as how we all praised the staff for their contribution towards making Dismaland such a huge success, I really hope the art anoraks aren't harassing them to sell their gift prints. That would be rude. If they want to sell them, then I'm sure they will do, but right now, I hope they're not being emailed about the prints.

Absolutely. For a few of the staff, it could well be their chance to clear debt or put the money towards something useful.

i like i think its great.

The idea of kids playing in a riot van is an ok one, can carry a plethora of meanings etc and is straight down the Banksy alley so nowt wrong there

But seriously the execution looks, to me, as a farce, a parody of a print
- the rainbow, why ?
- the little fountain on top
- the ducks
- even the two kids on the roof look like a bad joke

The print is too busy with all of this kitsch detail, it doesn't work for me as an image or as a statement



Or maybe it is meant that way, as a burlesque print ?

Agree with @toast that this is a great memento if you have a connection to the place from working there. In that case this enchanted kitsch print probably talks to you...

But for those who were not gifted one I really don't get the appeal of having it apart from the obvious...it's a rare Banksy innit

I agree,  this print is a bit complicated ( the kid on the top and the rainbow take all the air and the space ) , and is a bit  kitsch or as vintage hippie - no, no I have nothing against hippies - , drawings. Btu It is a Banksy.
Anyway all these guys and stewards have been surely very well paid for their month, so, as say Mattl, it's a gift ( Banksy won't offer them a Mona Lisa reloaded )

could be for sure,,, be better if i had one ;D 

you survived the UK then ? and it survived you ? 

I love the truck and the kid climbing up the front in particular, the rainbows too chocolate box for me and pastel,  if I worked at disma I'd be delighted and monetary value aside it would mean a lot personally. No doubt it will sell well if/when the time comes, it is wall friendly.

@toast, at the end, you pout me my friend ?

Banksy's Dismaland heads for French refugee camp






A group of volunteers from Bristol have set off for a refugee camp in France with the fixtures and fittings from Banksy’s Dismaland ‘bemusement park’

The dismantled attraction, which stood for a month in the abandoned Tropicana lido in Weston-Super-Mare, was donated to group Aid Box Convoy by the artist following the park’s closure at the end of September.

It is understood Banksy is also sending out a team of carpenters and builders to help re-use elements of Dismaland to build cooking stations and ‘five communal’ shelters at the camp.

The Bemusement park was originally set to be re-assembled as the ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais but Imogen McIntosh, who is heading Aid Box Convoy, persuaded Banksy to give the materials to their Bristol-based relief effort.

The team with around 300 boxes is understood to be heading to a smaller camp in northern France where conditions have been described as ‘horrendous’.

Speaking to Bristol 24/7, McIntosh said: ‘Dismaland is all taken down now. We are left with huge sheets of wood and materials which we can use.’

According to McIntosh, the camp had rapidly grown in size over the last three weeks with the arrival of 600 extra people which had swelled the population to more than 1,000.

The group plans to make future visits to France to help ‘three other camps in the area’. group of volunteers from Bristol have set off for a refugee camp in France with the fixtures and fittings from Banksy’s Dismaland ‘bemusement park’

The dismantled attraction, which stood for a month in the abandoned Tropicana lido in Weston-Super-Mare, was donated to group Aid Box Convoy by the artist following the park’s closure at the end of September.

It is understood Banksy is also sending out a team of carpenters and builders to help re-use elements of Dismaland to build cooking stations and ‘five communal’ shelters at the camp.

The Bemusement park was originally set to be re-assembled as the ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais but Imogen McIntosh, who is heading Aid Box Convoy, persuaded Banksy to give the materials to their Bristol-based relief effort.

The team with around 300 boxes is understood to be heading to a smaller camp in northern France where conditions have been described as ‘horrendous’.

Speaking to Bristol 24/7, McIntosh said: ‘Dismaland is all taken down now. We are left with huge sheets of wood and materials which we can use.’

According to McIntosh, the camp had rapidly grown in size over the last three weeks with the arrival of 600 extra people which had swelled the population to more than 1,000.

The group plans to make future visits to France to help ‘three other camps in the area’.

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/banksys-dismaland-heads-for-french-refugee-camp/8690232.article

The Cheltenham Banksy piece is such a mess. The best that could happen to it now would be a midnight visit from Blanksy and a nice coat of illegal matt white.

I saw that! Best thing there now.