Girl with a Pierced Eardrum is a stencil mural made by the street artist Banksy in October 2014 on a wall at Hanover Place on Spike Island in Bristol, England. It reworks the 1665 painting Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, replacing the pearl earring of the sitter with an existing yellow security alarm box already fixed to the wall in that position, turning a piece of street furniture into part of the image. The mural appeared overnight with no advance notice and was vandalised with black paint within two days of its unveiling; in April 2020 an unknown hand added a fabric face mask to the face of the girl, read at the time as a reference to healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Year Created MediumStencil and spray paint, street mural 1 LocationAlbion Dockyard, Hanover Place, Bristol, England 1 Medium
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Appearing overnight on 20 October 2014
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It is stencilled graffiti
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on a building in Albion Dockyard in Hanover Place, Bristol
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Girl with a Pierced Eardrum is a stencil mural made by the street artist Banksy in October 2014 on a wall at Hanover Place on Spike Island in Bristol, England.
In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
Girl with a Pierced Eardrum is a 2014 mural by anonymous street artist Banksy, on the wall of a building in Hanover Place, Spike Island, Bristol, England. Appearing overnight on 20 October 2014, it is a parody of Girl with a Pearl
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