Artwork on former prison confirmed as Banksy

Street artist Banksy has claimed responsibility for a painting on the side of a former prison which housed playwright Oscar Wilde. The artwork, on the red brick wall of the former Reading Prison, shows an inmate escaping lockdown using a knotted spool of paper from a typewriter.

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