I was given a wonderful ‘Banksy’ wall calendar by my mother this Christmas. I noticed that this fabulous image of the Queen has been selected for the month of July. The manufacturers of the calendar are not the only people to have falsely attributed this stencil to Banksy. In July 2012, during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, all the newspapers heralded this artwork as a new ‘Banksy’.
The stencil was actually sprayed by IncWel, is called ‘Still Sane’ and is a direct reference to Bowie’s ‘Alladin Sane’ album cover of 1974. I have not been able to find anything else by IncWel, and there is little information on the Interweb about him.
For so many reasons I love this stencil.
9/10
Natural adventures 
Too cool! Cool that your mom gave you a calendar like that, cool that you know who really did the stencil (it doesn’t really look like a Banksy) and cool that you know where it is in Bristol.
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I just love this work and your informative story. I had the Aladdin Sane Album. This is so BritArt it should become a cultural logo for Britain. I can understand why so many think it might be a Banksy – but you would think they would check on his official website before printing off a calendar? Lets hope we will be seeing more from IncWel. What a great post!
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Thank you. It is an iconic image on the perfect wall.
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Reblogged this on ART So Provident and commented:
This is a reblogg from Scooj who lives in Bristol. It is an iconic symbol of Brit Street Art, made more important now that David Bowie has passed from us. More about this on his original blog. He has also reblogged it with a moving Haiku https://scooj.wordpress.com
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Thank you.
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