Eight years ago a hard-up student spent the last £300 of his student loan on a piece of art. Next week it will be displayed in a commercial art gallery with a price tag of £150,000. The work in question, Riot Green, is one of more than 60 pieces by Banksy to...(snip)
Among the unseen work is a 2006 piece called Roadwork Rat and Lenin on Roller Blades, from 2003. The work Riot Green will be on sale after being auctioned last year by student Gez Smith for nearly £80,000, a considerable return on his £300 investment...
Read full story by Mark Brown, arts correspondent for the Guardian UK