The elusive artist Banksy has unveiled a menagerie of animal-themed artworks in London over the past few days, starting with a goat and ending with a school of fish.
The goat appeared on Monday. The artwork shows a goat with stones falling from beneath it on the side of a building in Kew Bridge in London. A security camera on the building is trained on the goat.
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Banksy posted a picture of the mural on his Instagram account and has done so for each subsequent animal. None of the posts have a caption.
A new work depicting two elephant heads facing each other with their trunks outstretched was shown in Chelsea, west London, on Tuesday. The next day, three monkeys appeared on a bridge in Brick Lane, east London.
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The fourth design shows a howling wolf on a satellite dish designed to look like a full moon in the London borough of Peckham. Images show people removing the artwork and running away with it. CBS News has contacted the Metropolitan Police for more information. According to CBS News partner BBC, the Metropolitan Police said they were called to reports of a “stolen satellite dish containing artwork.”
Banksy’s artworks were stolen in LondonLast year, police arrested a man suspected of stealing a stop sign designed by Banksy using three military drones.
After the wolf, a mural of fish-eating pelicans appeared on the facade of a fish and chip shop in Walthamstow, north London. It was followed by a cat on an old billboard in the London district of Cricklewood.
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The poster was removed just hours after the cat was unveiled, the BBC reported. The crowd booed the poster as it was removed.
On Sunday, a school of fish appeared outside a City of London police station in Ludgate Hill. Pictures show that the station was cordoned off.
The City of London Police told the BBC that it was aware of “damage to property” at the police station and was in contact with the City of London Corporation, which owns the station.
CBS News has reached out to the City of London to learn about any efforts to preserve Banksy’s work.
