Trolley Hunters Banksy

Banksy, Trolley Hunters, signed screenprint edition of 150, 2007

This was part of the first UK Trolleys release and was a total edition run of 650, with 150 of those being signed Banksy prints. It is common for signed Banksy prints to be highly coveted, and there is no exception with Trolleys. There are a very small number of signed Trolleys that were part of the LA edition too (these have a slightly different colour background to the UK releases), which were available during Banksy’s Barely Legal exhibition, and again, these are highly prized.

It seems clear that Banksy here is insulting the ‘west’ for their reliance on mass market commercialism to feed themselves and their families.

Hunting trolleys makese for an amusing scene in itself, as though these pseudo-hunters expect their dinner simply to hop in, ready to eat. Along similar themes, Banksy once used marker pen on a piece of stone to replicate cave paintings, showing a primitive hunter pushing a shopping trolley! He then placed it in a museum exhibition, whereupon it went unnoticed for almost a week.