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Banksy’s artwork appears on side of former Reading Prison
A piece of graffiti painted by Banksy has appeared overnight on the side of Reading Prison.
In the early hours of Monday (1 March) morning, the artwork was spotted on the side of the now-closed institution.
It shows a man dressed in a striped prisoner’s uniform scaling the side of the building on a knotted rope.
Beneath the man, the chain is shown to be made of paper and coming out of a typewriter.
Banksy has named the piece ‘The Create Escape’.
In a video featuring TV artist Bob Ross, the Bristol-based artist – whose identity is a closely guarded secret – shows how he created the painting.
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Some have speculated that the man is meant to represent Irish poet Oscar Wilde, who was imprisoned at the jail from 1895 to 1897 on charges of gross indecency with other men.
A campaign was recently launched to save the Grade II listed building after it was closed in 2014.