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Banksy honors frontline medical workers

Boy plays with new action hero of an NHS nurse.

Banksy’s image is of young boy playing with his new new action hero – an NHS nurse. His discarded superhero figures lie discarded in a wastepaper basket beside him, The artwork hangs in Southampton hospital.

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Credit: Will Gompertz, New Banksy artwork appears at Southampton hospital, originally published in BBC, 6 May 2020.

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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