Yet another new Banksy piece has been unveiled in London. Check it out below.
Yesterday (August 9) Banksy shared his fifth work this week above a fish and chip shop in Walthamstow, north-east London. The mural depicts two pelicans eating fish, and was claimed by the artist on his Instagram in the afternoon.
Prior to Banksy confirming the piece was his, Walthamstow’s MP Stella Creasy reacted to the new artwork on Facebook, saying: “Walthamstow. Where even our chippy is just a bit cooler than everyone else’s. Even if this isn’t a #banksy it’s brill and the chips there are magic so thank you to whoever added this bit of magic to our street art today.”
It comes after a fourth work by the artist was stolen in Peckham on Thursday. The artwork, which depicted a wolf howling at the moon, was painted on a satellite dish on top of a store front in Rye Lane, next to the UCKG Help Centre.
Shortly after the piece being revealed, a group of men wearing black hoodies, facemasks and gloves appear to have climbed up the building and removed the satellite dish, stealing it from its original location.
The pelicans are the fifth art piece the Bristol-based street artist claimed credit for this week. The first mural is located in Richmond, depicting a goat perched on a ledge from which rocks are falling. The second piece is located on the side of a house on the corner of Edith Terrace and Gunter Grove in Chelsea and sees two elephants poking their heads out of blocked-out windows.
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Banksy has claimed to be the mastermind behind the murals by sharing photos of each one of the artworks on his official Instagram account.
The new art pieces come after he launched an art piece in the form of an immigrant boat during IDLES’ performance at Glastonbury 2024. The dummy-filled boat was launched into the crowd on the Other Stage during their pro-immigration track ‘Danny Nedelko’.
The boat was a visual reference to the current migrant crisis, which has become the focal point of then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s immigration policy. The stunt was criticised by then-Home Secretary James Cleverly, who called it “vile”.
He told Sky News: “There are a bunch of people there joking and celebrating about criminal actions which costs lives, people die. People die in the Mediterranean, they die in the Channel. This is not funny.”
In response, Banksy said: “The Homeland Security called my Glastonbury boat ‘vile and unacceptable’ which seemed a bit over the top. The real boat I fund, the MV Louise Michael rescued 17 unaccompanied children from the central med on Monday night. As punishment, the Italian authorities have detained it – which seems vile and unacceptable to me.”
Back in March, an artwork painted behind a cut-back mature tree to look like foliage, with a stencil of a person holding a pressure hose, appeared on a wall in Finsbury Park.