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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
National
Emma Grimshaw

Mobile lovers: Man who found famous Banksy artwork on Bristol youth club door thought it was vandals

A Bristol youth club boss has admitted when he first spotted a piece of graffiti art sprayed onto his door, he had no idea it was a Banksy.

The Riverside Youth Project, in Easton, gained international attention eight years ago when it sold a Banksy work with the artist’s blessing after finding it on a boarded-up doorway outside.

Dennis Stinchcombe was the first person to find the creation, which showed two lovers embracing while both staring at their phones, but believed it was the work of vandals. Two days later he discovered the artist behind the piece - entitled Mobile Lovers - was the Banksy, after fans and film crews descended on the building, reports the Sun.

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