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Banksy Peckham Rock

In 2005, the enigmatic street artist Banksy installed a provocative piece of concrete in the British Museum’s Roman Britain gallery. The piece featured a drawing of a person with spikes on their back and a shopping cart, while in the distance, a bison with arrows in it could be seen.

The artwork, titled “Peckham Rock”, was a commentary on the value and worth of art and questioned the institutionalised nature of museums.

By blending in with the museum’s collection, Banksy’s artwork challenged the notion of what is considered museum-worthy and raised questions about who gets to decide. The fake label on the artwork, which mimicked standard museum practice of labelling objects with a title, description, and identification number, played into this commentary by suggesting that the piece was a “finely preserved example of primitive art” from the “Post-Catatonic era”, with little else known about the artist besides the moniker Banksymus Maximus.