Artwork Files

An Artwork File gathers everything we can verify about one artwork: who made it, when and where, the artist’s own photos, local news, official records, and whether it is still there. Every fact links to its source and carries a label from How We Verify Art.

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78 of these 1165 works are gone. The files show how and when, from dated sources.

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Banksy’s stencilled boy and cat pulling apart corrugated-metal curtains in a farmhouse window at Blacksole Farm, Herne Bay.

Morning is Broken

Banksy · Herne Bay, England · 2023 · 5 confirming sources

Status checked 14 Oct 2026

Banksy confirmed the piece on 15 March 2023, a day after demolition of the farmhouse had begun.

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ROA’s giant black-and-white numbat on Henderson Street in Fremantle, photographed by Gnangarra in 2013.

ROA · Fremantle, Australia · 2011 · 3 confirming sources

Status checked 13 Oct 2026

A giant native animal on a market-side wall, documented in dated photographs before its demolition in 2022.

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A freestanding brick facade with a green door, sash windows and black drainpipe bends into a large arch on the lawn of Charterhouse Square, with real London buildings behind it.

A Week at the Knees

Alex Chinneck · London, UK · 2025 · 4 confirming sources

Status checked 13 Oct 2026

The brick facade was a freestanding sculpture; its Charterhouse Square display ended in early July 2025.

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Banksy’s Cinderella installation at Dismaland: a white and gold pumpkin coach lies overturned on gravel with two fallen white horses, Cinderella hanging limp from its window while a pack of helmeted paparazzi fire camera flashes at her.

Cinderella’s Carriage

Banksy · Weston-super-Mare, England · 2015 · 7 confirming sources

Status checked 13 Oct 2026

Gone with Dismaland: the park closed on 27 September 2015, and its materials were taken to Calais in October.

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A stencil of a child in a dark cap and coat holding a paintbrush and a bucket dripping red paint, beside the red hand-painted words “I remember when all this was trees” on a white cinder-block wall. Broken blocks and rubble lie all around, with ruined factory buildings and young trees behind.

I Remember When All This Was Trees

Attributed to Banksy · Detroit, USA · 2010 · 5 confirming sources

Status checked 13 Oct 2026

Nothing is left to see at the Packard Plant: the wall section was cut out on 10 May 2010 and sold at auction in 2015.

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Banksy’s seagull mural in Lowestoft: a giant painted gull diving down a cream brick gable wall towards a real yellow skip full of insulation-board “chips”, on a blurred dark background.

Banksy · Lowestoft, England · 2021 · 15 confirming sources

Status checked 12 Oct 2026

Nothing is left to see: the painted gable at Katwijk Way and Denmark Road was cut out in April and May 2023 and the wall rebuilt.

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Curtis Hylton’s giant yellow and orange petal-feathered parrot on the green side wall of Jan’s Barber, East Street, Bristol, placed on a blurred, darkened copy of the same photo.

Curtis Hylton · Bristol, England · 2022 · 10 confirming sources

Status checked 12 Oct 2026

In the photos, look for the pale rose that forms the parrot’s eye, the start of the petals that make up every feather.

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SMUG’s Skeleton and Bird mural in Frankston: a giant photorealistic skeleton on a brick end wall leans in to look at a small blue bird perched on its fingertip, on a blurred dark background.

Skeleton and Bird

SMUG · Frankston, Australia · 2018 · 15 confirming sources

Status checked 11 Oct 2026

Look for the small blue bird perched on the tip of one bony finger.

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Tom Saltsman’s Halloween dragon in Marblehead: a black-and-gold dragon head with a red eye resting on the roof above the blue front door of a grey house, one dark wing in the foreground, on a blurred dark background.

Halloween Dragon

Tom Saltsman · Marblehead, USA · 2018 · 11 confirming sources

Status checked 11 Oct 2026

Look for the red eye above the blue front door: the dragon left after Halloween 2018.

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Three photos of a white metal bench cut in the lacy pattern of a paper doily, standing on a grey paved plaza in Lower Manhattan.

Jennifer Cecere · New York, USA · 2013 · 9 confirming sources

Status checked 9 Oct 2026

The city’s record shows the doily bench on the Whitehall Street plaza from 10 June 2013 to 1 July 2014; it later turned up in Newport Beach and at MoMA PS1.

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People ride swings hung on black straps from white metal frames under translucent teal and lime-green roof panels on a paved promenade in Montréal.

21 Balançoires

Daily tous les jours · Montréal, Canada · 2011 · 10 confirming sources

Status checked 9 Oct 2026

Planned as a temporary installation, the 21 musical swings returned to the Promenade des Artistes every spring, for the ninth straight year in 2019, until “Ville orchestre” replaced them in 2022.

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Cheone’s The Vision in Milan: painted windows and balconies seem to melt down the side wall of Casa Maiocchi.

Cheone · Milan, Italy · 2021 · 12 confirming sources

Status checked 8 Oct 2026

A temporary art wall for MV Line: announced until 30 September 2021, and by February 2022 a new Cheone mural was on the wall.

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Näutil’s giant blue eye painted on a collapsed war bunker on the beach at Siouville-Hague, with waves washing in front of it.

Näutil · Siouville-Hague, France · 2014 · 8 confirming sources

Status checked 8 Oct 2026

After about two years of watching the sea from a beach bunker, the eye was painted shut in stages by Näutil himself in October 2016.

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Tiny chalk mouse reading in a rope hammock tied between two joints of a red brick pavement, with real grass above.

Nadine and the Reading Palms

David Zinn · Laguna Beach, USA · 2021 · 1 confirming source

Status checked 6 Oct 2026

Zinn’s own record dates it to 1 November 2021, on a Laguna Beach visit the pandemic had pushed back from 2020.

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A woman tosses a beach ball toward a 3D chalk painting of an orca in a pedestrian street.

Nikolaj Arndt · Wilhelmshaven, Germany · 2011 · 2 confirming sources

Status checked 6 Oct 2026

Painted for the first StreetArt Festival in Wilhelmshaven in August 2011, the orca took second place in the 3D category.

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Three giant figures woven from saplings, with bun, loop and hood-shaped heads, seen from below against a blue sky.

Patrick Dougherty · Durham, USA · 2017 · 9 confirming sources

Status checked 5 Oct 2026

Meant to stand for about two years, the sapling sculpture came down after 18 months, on 22 August 2018, because a very wet year had made it unstable.

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Gyoda’s 2021 rice paddy art seen from above: Hokusai’s Great Wave, Mount Fuji and a kabuki actor planted in coloured rice across green fields.

Ukiyo-e and kabuki in rice

Gyoda City · Gyoda, Saitama, Japan · 2021 · 6 confirming sources

Status checked 5 Oct 2026

The picture is stretched on purpose: Gyoda drew it in perspective for a 50 m observation deck, so photos from straight above look distorted.

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A building front on Blackfriars Road built upside down, with its blue shopfront and W.H. Willcox sign at the top and a red door up by the roof.

Under the Weather but Over the Moon

Alex Chinneck · London, UK · 2013 · 19 confirming sources

Status checked 5 Oct 2026

Builders from the British Museum extension put up Chinneck’s upside-down facade for free, using salvaged materials, on a 1780 stable block that was due for demolition.

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David Zinn’s green chalk character Fran waves from an Ann Arbor sidewalk, wearing a tuft of real grass from a crack as hair.

Fran’s Summer Hairstyle

David Zinn · Ann Arbor, USA · 2021 · 1 confirming source

Status checked 5 Oct 2026

Zinn lists the materials as “chalk, charcoal, and participatory weeds”: the hair is real grass growing from the sidewalk crack.

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A huge ammonite-like spiral raked into the sand at Lindsway Bay, with one small figure walking past it below the cliffs.

Jon Foreman · Lindsway Bay, Wales · 2024 · 1 confirming source

Status checked 5 Oct 2026

Jon Foreman posted this giant sand ammonite with one line before the title: “This is not AI.”

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Alex Chinneck’s orange facade seeming to unzip at one corner in a courtyard on Via Tortona, Milan.

IQOS World Revealed

Alex Chinneck · Milan, Italy · 2019 · 12 confirming sources

Status checked 5 Oct 2026

The “historic” facade was a costume: painted polystyrene and a three-tonne steel curl, made in Germany and fitted over a plain courtyard building for six days.

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A giant rice-straw gorilla at the 2017 Wara Art Festival in Niigata, its straw hand curled around a group of young people.

Musashino Art University students · Niigata, Japan · 2017 · 4 confirming sources

Status checked 4 Oct 2026

Woven from straw left after the rice harvest, it stood in Uwasekigata Park from September until 1 November 2017.

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Sonny Behan’s golden grizzly mural on a red brick wall in Cambridge, Ontario, with a woman in a yellow dress walking past.

Kicking Up Dust

Sonny Behan · Cambridge, Canada · 2017 · 4 confirming sources

Status checked 4 Oct 2026

The building’s owner painted the bear green in September 2023; neither the owner nor the city has said why.

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Alex Chinneck’s red wax-brick house melting into heaps on Southwark Street, London.

A Pound of Flesh for 50p

Alex Chinneck · London, UK · 2014 · 14 confirming sources

Status checked 29 Sep 2026

It was built roof first: the roof was raised 5 m and the wax walls laid beneath it, then six telescopic lifts lowered it in 200 mm stages as the walls melted (New Civil Engineer).

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How a file is made

Start from a photoEvery file begins with a work we have published on World Art Utopia or Street Art Utopia.
Only confirmed worksWe make a file only when at least three independent sources confirm the work.
Local sources firstLocal news in the local language, city and festival records, the artist’s own posts and videos, and archived copies of news links.
Is it still there?The newest dated photo, satellite and Street View history, and official records decide the status. “Still there” always has a date.
Checked before it goes upEvery quote, date and link is checked against its source before a file is published.

Artwork Files · last updated 13 November 2026 · Certainty labels follow How We Verify Art.