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title: Banksy
text: Banksy started as a freehand graffiti artist in 1990 -- 1994 as one of Bristol 's DryBreadZ Crew ( DBZ ) , with two other artists known as Kato and Tes . Banksy was inspired by local artists and their work was part of the larger Bristol underground scene with Nick Walker , Inkie and 3D . During this time Banksy met Bristol photographer Steve Lazarides , who began selling Banksy 's work , later becoming their agent . By 2000 Banksy had turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a work . Banksy claims they changed to stencilling while hiding from the police under a rubbish lorry , when they noticed the stencilled serial number and by employing this technique , they soon became more widely noticed for their art around Bristol and London . Banksy was the goalkeeper for the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls football team in the 1990s , and toured with the club to Mexico in 2001 . Banksy 's first known large wall mural was The Mild Mild West painted in 1997 to cover advertising of a former solicitors ' office on Stokes Croft in Bristol . It depicts a teddy bear lobbing a Molotov cocktail at three riot police .