PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland Purchased from Santa's Grotto exhibition Dragon Bar, London, 2002

This work is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from Pest Control

Bomb Middle England is one of Banksy's early screenprints. It was released by Pictures On Walls, the artist's original United Kingdom print house as an edition of 450 unsigned prints.

On first glance the work depicts an idyllic scene of three senior women players in bowling attire. They stand on a smooth strip of grass created from two horizontal planes of green. The three subjects are painted in Banksy's signature black and white stencil style.

On closer examination the possible explosive quality of the scene is revealed as the bowling balls are seen to be metal cannonballs, all with lit fuses. As always, the artist's works can be interpreted in a variety of ways.