Hula Hooping Girl Explained

Hula Hooping Girl
Artist:Banksy
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in
City:Nottingham, United Kingdom
Preceded By:If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get
Followed By:Create Escape

Hula Hooping Girl is a piece of street art, created by Banksy. On 13 October 2020, it appeared on a wall in Nottingham, England.[1] Media reports followed the appearance of the artwork that is had been created by Banksy. On October 17, Banksy claimed the artwork after posting a picture of it on his Instagram account.

Artwork

The work is painted onto a wall at the side of a beauty salon in Nottingham. It depicts a young girl hula-hooping with a bicycle tire, next to a bicycle that is missing its rear wheel, attached to a nearby signpost.[2]

As with many Banksy artworks, it was vandalised a couple of days after the artist posted it on his Instagram. On 22 November 2020, the bicycle that made up part of the work had been removed from the signpost.[3] By the next day, it had been replaced with a different bicycle, without a rear wheel, in the same location.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Holmes . Helen . Banksy Departs From His Recent Political Art With Graffiti of a Hula-Hooping Girl . 19 October 2020 . . 20 October 2020 . 20 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201020112011/https://observer.com/2020/10/banksy-political-art-hula-hooping/ . live .
  2. Web site: Banksy claims Nottingham hula-hooping girl artwork . . October 18, 2020 . 20 October 2020 . 20 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201020092326/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-54582846 . live .
  3. News: 2020-11-22. Bike from Banksy's Nottingham hula-hooping girl vanishes. BBC News. 23 November 2020. 23 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201123001605/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-55028586. live.
  4. News: 2020-11-23. Banksy: Bike from Nottingham hula-hooping girl replaced. BBC News. 23 November 2020. 23 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201123101601/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-55042525. live.