David Henty | In Homage to Banksy: Rude Policeman

David Henty (b. 1958) — Rude Policeman (after Banksy’s Rude Copper, 2002)

David Henty spent a short prison sentence in the mid-1990s for forging passports; it was there, by his own account, that a fascination with the working methods of other artists turned into a craft, now a fully legitimate practice recreating the techniques of artists from Caravaggio and Picasso to Basquiat and Banksy.

This piece reproduces Banksy’s Rude Copper, his first commercial print: a British “bobby” in custodian helmet, caught mid-gesture giving the viewer the finger, set within a distressed gilt frame.

Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.

Mixed media on canvas, by David Henty, in homage to Banksy
64 x 75 cm framed
Not an original work by Banksy