Eighth London Banksy in eight days confirmed

Eighth London Banksy in eight days confirmed
News Desk

By News Desk


Published: 12/08/2024

Street artist Banksy has unveiled an eighth new London mural in eight days - showing a rhino mounting a Nissan Micra with a traffic cone on its bonnet.

It appeared in Charlton, south-east London, and was confirmed on Banksy's Instagram account.

It comes a day after he painted swimming piranhas on to a City of London Police sentry box, which was first spotted on Sunday morning.

The translucent fish formed the seventh piece in an animal-themed art series across the capital.

On Monday, the City of London Corporation said the artwork was removed to a "safe location".

A spokesperson said: "We have moved the artwork to Guildhall Yard to ensure it is properly protected and open for the public to view safely.

"A permanent home for the piece will be decided in due course."

On 5 August, a goat appeared on the side of a building near Kew Bridge, followed by an image of two elephants touching trunks on the side of a house in Chelsea on Tuesday.

Three monkeys hanging from a bridge in Brick Lane then drew crowds on Wednesday.

On Thursday, a howling wolf on a satellite dish - which looked like the animal was howling at the moon - was installed onto a garage roof in Peckham.

But it was hours before it was seen taken down by men and carried off down Rye lane.

The artist is neither connected to nor endorses the theft of the wolf design and that they have "no knowledge as to the dish's current whereabouts," Banksy's press team confirmed.

On Friday, locals in Walthamstow woke up to find two pelicans fishing above a fish shop.

And on Saturday, a stencil of a cat having a stretch appeared on an empty billboard in Cricklewood

Crowds booed as the piece in Cricklewood was dismantled by three men who said they were "hired" by a "contracting company" to take down the billboard for safety reasons.

In the historic Old Bailey courts on Monday, Judge Mark Lucraft KC discharged a jury after it failed to reach a verdict in a death by careless driving trial and suggested they might enjoy the weather with a visit to the nearby Banksy instead.

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