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Mancsy is a pseudonymous of anonymous artist from Manchester, England. His moniker is a play on the Bristolian graffiti artist Banksy (A 'Manc' is the colloquial name given to a person from Manchester).

Since January 2012, each month he produces limited edition screen prints and displays them in public for people to find and keep, using social media (predominantly Twitter) he chats to fans and gives photographic clues to the locations of his finders keepers game. Although giveaways predominantly take place in Manchester, his work has also appeared in London, Bristol and internationally in Paris, New York and Istanbul. He was identified as one of the top 10 Manchester street artists in 2015, although he maintains he is not a street artist as leaves no mark and only uses the streets as a gallery. His reputation has grown by word of mouth and was featured on the BBC News. Collectors meet and swap early prints which are no longer available, when they occasionally appear for sale they commend high prices.

To date he has held two public exhibitions, the latest was at Manchester's Victoria Warehouse in April 2015 to coincide with the unveiling of a 19m square banner featuring his message that Manchester is a hub of creativity: CREATIVITY IS FORGED IN MANCHESTER ON THE ANVIL OF INDUSTRY.

A bee is a tab graphic featured in many of his works as a symbol of Manchester’s industrial workforce from the Industrial Revolution and featured in the Manchester coat of arms. Black and yellow remain the two dominant colours in his screen prints. His work promotes Manchester and notable pieces include a design featuring Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst featured in the BBC documentary Emmeline Pankhurst Making of a Militant. He participates in projects and was one of several featured artists in the Brexit Art Machine happening in 2019. Art activism to raise awareness of issues around homelessness led to work with With One Voice as part of the first International Arts and Homelessness Summit held in Manchester in November 2018 and subsequently work featuring Shelter statistics about homeless children.

He is known for fundraising and giving work to charity; he asks if people want to give something back, that they make a donation to The Christie or the Manchester Mayor's Charity. In September 2014 he opened an online shop which funds his ongoing "free-bees" and charity work.