Banksy unveils fourth new London mural in four days

8 August, 2024

People remove a new artwork by Banksy, depicting a howling wolf painted on a satellite dish that was placed on a shop roof in Peckham, south London. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt/PA Images via Getty Images)

Banksy has now unveiled a new animal-themed mural in London, marking his fourth artwork to be revealed this week.

The brand-new art piece is of the silhouette of a wolf howling at the moon. The piece in the elusive artist’s signature stencilled style has been painted on a satellite dish that is located on top of a storefront in Peckham. Its location is next to the UCKG Help Centre. Sadly, it appears that the piece has been stolen from its location by a group of masked men.

It marks the fourth art piece the Bristol-based street artist has claimed credit for this week. The first mural shared is located in Richmond which depicts 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 which sees two elephants poking their heads out of blocked-out windows.

The third mural was shared by the artist yesterday (August 7) and featured three swinging monkeys on the bridge of an East London tube station.

 

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.

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