Banksy’s latest artwork – which marked the fourth piece to be unveiled and confirmed as his in recent days – has been stolen from its location in Peckham.
A photo of the art piece was shared by Banksy on his official Instagram account, showing the silhouette of a wolf howling at the moon on a satellite dish. It was located on top of a storefront in Rye Lane, Peckham, south London next to the UCKG Help Centre.
Now, it appears that a group of men wearing black hoodies, facemasks and gloves have climbed up the building and removed the satellite dish, stealing it from its original location.
BREAKING: A fourth Banksy artwork which appeared in London just an hour ago has been stolen.
Photos showed a group of masked men climbing up and grabbing the dish before carrying it away.
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The dish marked the fourth 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.
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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