Banksy’s street art enjoys tremendous popularity across the globe, with this artist leaving his traces in major capitals of Europe and American cities. His creative activity in the UK has also been pronounced over the past years, and 2024 has witnessed the emergence of several new Banksy artworks in the London streets.
What Are the New Banksy Artworks About?
On August 8, the London public identified a new Banksy artwork in the Peckham borough of South London. It depicted a howling wolf on a white satellite dish; the stenciled street art appeared at night and was quickly removed and stolen the next morning.
A new series of Banksy street artworks started on August 5, when the artist created a stenciled goat on the building wall near London’s Kew Bridge. The artwork depicts a mountain goat perched on a narrow, supportive structure of the building. The impression is that the goat is about to fall from a considerable height, with small pieces of ground and stones slipping from underneath its hooves.
After the goat, two elephants appeared on the side of a building in Chelsea on August 6. The two elephants are stenciled on two blocked-out windows, with their trunks facing one another and trying to touch each other. August 7 was ushered by the new mural on a bridge over Brick Lane, featuring three monkeys hanging on the bridge’s edge.
While these new murals come with no prints or verbal messages, the global community of Banksy’s appreciators is actively pondering over the message that the artist is trying to convey with his new works. All of them feature wild animals in urban settings, so the majority of critics agree on the environmentalist motifs of these murals. For instance, the goat mural is deciphered as Banksy’s warning about humanity’s careless destruction of natural habitats for wild animals. As a result of reckless expansionist activities, people are leaving wild animals with literally no place to go, thus dooming them to death.
Banksy’s Street Art in London
While the new Banksy artworks are currently enjoying broad discussions and contemplations on their deep meanings, there are many other London creations by the famous street artist worth mentioning. For example, street art fans can admire Banksy’s tree mural on Hornsey Road and the 2003 mural titled “His Master’s Voice,” which is located inside the old railway tunnel. There is also a Banksy’s Designated Graffiti Area on Rivington Street in Shoreditch.
