For years, art fans and journalists have been trying to figure out the identity of the street artist turned global phenomenon, Banksy. But what's it like to work for him?
Gallery owner Steph Warren claims she posed for Banksy's Sweep It Under the Carpet muralFor years, art fans and journalists have been trying to figure out the identity of the Bristolian renegade and global phenomenon that is the street artist Banksy.
For the podcast, Peak spent a year getting to know gallerist Steph Warren, who worked with Banksy at his print houseOnce Peak had gained her trust, Warren opened up to him about her experiences, having declined to sign a non-disclosure agreement when she worked at the print house. She has never talked publicly before.
Warren says she was asked by Banksy in the office one day to pose for what would become his now famous mural Sweeping It Under the Carpet, which depicted a maid at work. She definitely has a look of Warren. There have also been claims attributed to Banksy that he based it on a hotel maid in Los Angeles.
It got out of hand on its first day with hundreds of people fighting to get in, in the hope of buying one of the artist's limited prints. Warren had arranged the morning off, but said Banksy was uncharacteristically "fuming" with her because she wasn't there to manage the queue. After leaving Pictures on Walls, Warren set up her own gallery, Stella Dore, in the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. It folded a couple of years later, which Warren says was largely due to the global financial crisis and her addiction. However, she says being a woman in a male-dominated industry, alongside the false accusations, didn't help.
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