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Camden News - by TOM FOOT
Published: 23 December 2008

December 22, 2008

Banksy’s blanked!

IT used to be a classic Banksy but people are now jokingly calling it a Blanksy.
The guerilla artist’s famous stencilled maid in Chalk Farm Road, Chalk Farm, has had another rough week and there are fears that, this time, she might not pull through.
The artwork on a wall close to the Roundhouse theatre was whitewashed on Saturday by vandals who left the words “Banksy Was Here. RIP” scrawled in the open space.
The attack bore similarities to the maid’s whitewashing in February, which led to a meticulous repair job.
Dame Joan Bakewell, a massive Banksy fan who lives nearby in Primrose Hill, said: “You have to say that Banksy has this sort of thing coming to him. He defies all the laws and so he cannot have protection from others who exercise the same freedom. He has made a marvellous jest and so I am sad, but also smiling.”
Camden Council has already proved to be a fan of the graffiti artist, having made enquiries to get insurance for a rat etched into the Town Hall buildings in King’s Cross. Officials have already been working on the wall to see if the layers of paint can be removed and the original art restored.
“After a call from the Roundhouse we did assist them in removing the emulsion painted on the side of their building,” said a council spokeswoman.

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