Artist Banksy unveiled a new animal street art work in central London, via an Instagram post on Sunday, August 11. The seventh in just 7 days.
Banksy has struck again. The elusive street artist revealed that he was behind the transformation of a police booth in central London into a fake piranha aquarium in an Instagram post on Sunday, August 11. The work had appeared in the city center just hours before.
This 7th work concludes a week of London animal works claimed by the artist. Throughout the week, the silhouettes of a goat, elephants, monkeys, a wolf, pelicans and also a cat had been discovered in the British capital, before sometimes disappearing quickly.
An animal series
During the day this Sunday, the PA agency was able to see that agents were taking photos on site, one of them explaining that he was waiting to know what to do with them.
The wildlife series began on Monday with the appearance of a goat perched on a chimney in the west London borough of Richmond. Elephants poking their heads out of boarded-up windows in the affluent Chelsea neighbourhood were then spotted on Tuesday, followed by monkeys hanging from a railway bridge in Shoreditch on Wednesday and a wolf howling at a satellite dish on a shop front in Peckham on Thursday.
Pelicans catching fish above a fish and chip shop window in Walthamstow were also spotted in London, followed by a cat stretching on a billboard in the north-west of the capital.
The climate crisis, the war in Gaza or simply a bit of creative lightness in a dark time? The daily appearance of these animals has provoked intense speculation about their meaning, from an artist whose works are often very committed.
Jeanne Bulant with AFP Journalist BFMTV
