Nola Banksy

Banksy, Nola, signed screenprint edition of 289, 2008

Nola, also often called Rain Girl, first appeared as a piece of graffiti in 2008. It shows a young girl in black and white, in a dress beneath a black umbrella she is holding, holding her other hand out and feeling the rain that is pouring down. The background is a block grey as white rain falls from the umbrella.

Rendered in Banksy’s classic graffiti-spray-stencil style, this original artwork that originally appeared as a mural on a wall in New Orleans, is likely in reference to the hurricane Katrina that left the city in devastation not long before. In an interview, Banksy said that piece of wall art represents how some of the things that are supposed to protect us, can also harm us.  Nola was released in a number of different colours.