Home/Symbols/Dispatch boxesDispatch boxes SymbolismOrnate lecterns used by front-bench leaders to speak; emblems of official debate and executive authority.Common ThemesFlora & faunaPropaganda & ideologyResistance & protestMedium reflexivity (art about art)Originality, authorship, and appropriationPower & authorityNationalism & patriotismArtworks Featuring This SymbolDevolved ParliamentBanksy (2009 (reworked and retitled by 2019))<strong>Devolved Parliament</strong> is Banksy’s monumental oil painting that replaces Members of Parliament with chimpanzees on the green benches of the House of Commons. Using theatrical light that pools around the dispatch boxes and the Speaker’s Chair, it stages British democracy as a spectacle where ceremony collides with <strong>animalistic pandemonium</strong> <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[3]</sup>.
