Road artist Banksy on Thursday claimed accountability for a portray on the wall of a previous British prison that after held playwright Oscar Wilde.
The artwork reveals a prisoner escaping on a rope built of bedsheets tied to a typewriter.
The elusive artist verified he was responsible in a video posted on his Instagram account.
The footage demonstrates the artist carrying out the painting, and parodies the cult tutorial films of late US artist Bob Ross.
It opens with a clip of Ross saying: “Hello, I am Bob Ross. I’d like to welcome you to The Pleasure Of Painting.
“Acquired all your materials out, all set to do a fantastic painting with me? Superior.”


The action then switches to Banksy as he executes his perform, while a soundtrack of pleasant assistance from Ross performs in excess of the top.
Reading Jail shut to prisoners in 2013 and is greatest regarded for housing Wilde during his two-calendar year sentence of difficult labour for “gross indecency”.
His ultimate perform “The Ballad of Looking at Gaol” designed the situation for jail reform.
The Ministry of Justice, the listed building’s owner, is established to come to a decision this thirty day period whether to convert into an arts venue.
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