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\n\t\tWant to find out where you can see all of Banksy\u2019s graffiti in London? (Picture: Getty\/ Metro)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tWant to find out where you can see all of Banksy\u2019s graffiti in London? (Picture: Getty\/ Metro)<\/p>\n
Banksy<\/a> is an enigmatic British graffiti artist who brings political street art to walls, bridges, and buildings\u00a0worldwide.<\/p>\n Since rising to fame in the late 1990s, the artist\u2019s witty, satirical murals and daring pranks have earned him millions<\/a>.<\/p>\n New pieces pop up on a regular basis, like near Oxford Street in central London<\/a> and another in France<\/a>. His artwork can also be found across his hometown Bristol<\/a>.<\/p>\n More recently, a statue appeared next to the Crimean War Memorial at Waterloo Place<\/a> in central London with Banksy\u2019s signature scrawled at the bottom.<\/p>\n \t\t Its appearance spurred discussion over its creator, with many thinking it\u2019s Banksy despite no post on his Instagram channel confirming it.<\/p>\n The statue shows a man marching off the end of a plinth, holding a flag pole with the flag\u2019s fabric covering his face. <\/p>\n While we wait for an official confirmation, why not take a look at some of his other famous London works? If you\u2019re looking to find them, Metro has outlined where to spot them below.<\/p>\n Where is Banksy\u2019s London graffiti? \t\t In late December 2025, two identical Banksy artwork pieces cropped up in London, featuring two children lying down in winter clothing and pointing up at the sky.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tLatest London news\t\t\t<\/p>\n To get the latest news from the capital, visit Metro’s London news hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n The two murals appears on side of an abandoned building in Queen\u2019s Mews, Bayswater in West London and beside the Centre Point building on the intersection of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street<\/a>. <\/p>\n While the Centre Point mural is still around now, the Bayswater graffiti was boarded up by workmen within a few short hours<\/a>. <\/p>\n Royal Courts of Justice<\/p>\n \t\t In September 2025, a new Banksy artwork appeared outside the High Court in London<\/a>, depicting a judge wielding a gavel and attacking an unarmed person on the floor who held a sign covered in blood.<\/p>\n The elusive graffiti artist confirmed the artwork as his on his Instagram<\/a> with a caption \u2018Royal Courts of Justice, London\u2019, but the mural was quickly boarded up. <\/p>\n Within a day, the mural was scrubbed off the walls<\/a> and the police had launched an investigation into criminal damage<\/a>. <\/p>\n Animal art trail <\/p>\n \t\t Between August 5 and 13, 2024, nine animal-themed Banksy artworks appeared throughout London<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some were removed, most lawfully, but one, a howling wolf on a satellite dish was stolen. A few, however, remain, including graffiti artwork of two pelicans eating fish. <\/p>\n \t\t They appeared on the side of the fish and chip shop Bonner\u2019s Fish Bar in Northcote Road, Walthamstow. The artwork was been covered with clear Perspex to protect it. <\/p>\n \t\t The above two elephant silhouettes with their trunks stretched<\/a> out towards each other in Edith Grove, Chelsea, were also part of the animal series.<\/p>\n One of the elephants was defaced with white stripes, but the local council removed the stripes and covered the work with a special paint to protect it. <\/p>\n Other animal-themed pieces that appeared around the same time include three swinging monkeys below a London Overground<\/a> line in Brick Lane, east London that were removed in February 2025.<\/p>\n \t\t Also removed was the artwork of a goat precariously balancing on a pillar<\/a> as rocks fall below it in Kew Green in West London, the graffiti of a tiger stretching on a dilapidated billboard<\/a> in Cricklewood in northwest London, the London police box whose windows were decorated with a school of piranhas<\/a> at Ludgate Hill and the artwork of a gorilla pulling up a shutter at London Zoo was removed for \u2018safekeeping\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t \t\t Finally, artwork of a rhinoceros mounting a parked car on Westmoor Street in Charlton, south London was defaced after someone wearing a balaclava spray painted over the work<\/a> just days after it appeared. <\/p>\n Stoke Newington<\/p>\n \t\t Banksy\u2019s Royal family<\/a> on a balcony was painted on the side of a building in Stoke Newington in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n The image was one of a series used for Blur\u2019s Think Tank album in 2003. <\/p>\n Hackney<\/a> Council started painting the wall black in 2009 and was about to cover it until locals pointed out it was a Banksy. They stopped, but the black paint remains around the artwork.<\/p>\n Finsbury Park<\/p>\n \t\t The Finsbury Park tree mural<\/a> in Hornsey Road caught attention when it was put up shortly after St Patrick\u2019s Day<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n The artwork has been covered in clear plastic to protect it.<\/p>\n Mayfair<\/p>\n \t\t A Banksy mural of a woman falling from a building holding onto a shopping trolley turned up in 2011 in Bruton Street, Mayfair. <\/p>\n The work is known as both Falling Shopper and Shop Till You Drop.<\/p>\n Shoreditch<\/p>\n \t\t There are two Banksy pieces on the side of the defunct nightclub Cargo, which is now a multi-bar and restaurant called Viaduct in Shoreditch.<\/p>\n One of the works, named The Guard Dog, depicts a security guard with a poodle on a lead. <\/p>\n \t\t The other, called His Master\u2019s Voice, shows a white dog pointing a bazooka at a gramophone.<\/p>\n They can be found in the outdoor seating area of The Arch, one of the Viaduct\u2019s restaurants. <\/p>\n Poplar<\/p>\n \t\t Banksy\u2019s piece My Taps Been Phoned\u2019 popped up in Poplar in August 2011.<\/p>\n It appears to be a reference to the phone hacking scandal that had recently broken in the UK.<\/p>\n Where can you see Banksy\u2019s art in the rest of the UK?<\/p>\n Banksy\u2019s hometown of Bristol is packed with murals by the secretive artist.<\/p>\n One of his most famous works, the Grim Reaper, was originally painted on the side of the Thekla, a nightclub inside a boat docked in Bristol harbour.<\/p>\n However, in 2014, the piece was removed to protect it from damage. It\u2019s now on display in Bristol\u2019s M Shed museum.<\/p>\n You can also find the artwork Well Hung Lover on the side of a sexual health clinic on Frogmore Street, and The Girl with the Pierced Eardrum, a parody of the Johannes Vermeer painting, is on Hanover Place.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tFull list of confirmed UK Banksy artworks\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t The Great British Spraycation \u2013 North Beach, Lowestoft His art has also popped up elsewhere in the UK, including Hull, Nottingham<\/a>, and Cheltenham<\/a>.<\/p>\n Outside the UK, Banksy visited Ukraine<\/a> in 2022 and left a number of artworks to show his support for the country<\/a>, including the Tank Trap See Saw and Irpin Gymnast.<\/p>\n He also confirmed a lighthouse mural as his on Instagram<\/a>, artwork that shows a shining lighthouse with the words \u2018I want to be what you saw in me\u2019.<\/p>\n While the artist refused to share details of the mural\u2019s location, it\u2019s thought that the art can be found underneath a building along Rue F\u00e9lix Fregier in Marseille, France. <\/p>\n Why has so much of Banksy\u2019s art been destroyed?<\/p>\n The rocketing price of Banksy\u2019s work means that many of his pieces vanish without warning as building owners try to make a profit.<\/p>\n An entire section of a shop wall in Lowestoft that displayed an original Banksy was removed<\/a> in 2021 and taken to a secret location.<\/p>\n In December 2023, a Banksy artwork in Peckham of three drones on a traffic stop sign was stolen<\/a> less than an hour after it was put up.<\/p>\n A man with bolt cutters tore the piece down and another man on a Lime rental bike rode away with it.<\/p>\n \t\t One gallery owner told the BBC that the sign could be worth up to \u00a3500,000.<\/p>\n In other instances, though, Banksy\u2019s work has been accidentally destroyed.<\/p>\n Also in 2023 builders unknowingly demolished a Banksy<\/a> mural on the side of a derelict farmhouse in Kent.<\/p>\n \u2018It made me feel sick realising it was a Banksy \u2013 we were gutted. We started demolishing it yesterday,\u2019 one of the contractors involved said.<\/p>\n \u2018The landowner watched us do it and didn\u2019t know either.\u2019<\/p>\n Why did Banksy destroy his own art?<\/p>\n In 2018, a Banksy painting called Girl With Balloon was sold for more than \u00a31 million at auction house Sotheby\u2019s \u2013 and was shredded just moments later.<\/p>\n The auctioneers were unaware that Banksy had installed a shredding mechanism into the painting\u2019s frame.<\/p>\n \t\t Following the incident, Alex Branczik, Sotheby\u2019s senior director, said: \u2018It appears we just got Banksy-ed.\u2019<\/p>\n The original buyer still purchased the artwork at the full original price, but the painting was renamed from Girl With Balloon to Love is in the Bin.<\/p>\n Then, in 2021, the painting was sold again<\/a> \u2013 this time setting the record for the most expensive painting to be sold at auction at \u00a318.6 million.<\/p>\n How much is Banksy\u2019s art worth?<\/p>\n \t\t Banksy doesn\u2019t sell his own artwork. However, pieces of his work owned by other people have fetched tens of millions at auction.<\/p>\n He gave the artwork Game Changer to Southampton Hospital in 2020 as a thank you to NHS workers. The painting was later sold for \u00a316.8million, with the money going towards NHS<\/a> causes.<\/p>\n A 2005 painting called Sunflowers From Petrol Station, which parodied Van Gogh\u2019s famous sunflower paintings, fetched \u00a310.7million in 2021 when it was sold by fashion designer Sir Paul Smith.<\/p>\n And the artist reportedly made \u00a322.7million selling his prints<\/a> in the year to April 2025.<\/p>\n Who is Banksy?<\/p>\n The mystery surrounding Banksy has, understandably, made people eager to find out his true identity<\/a>.<\/p>\n Though nothing\u2019s ever been verified, there have been a few rumours, clues, and hints as to who they actually are. <\/p>\n Of course, it\u2019s thought that Banksy wants to keep their identity a secret, given that graffiti is a crime \u2013 but myths about their real name are common, often linking back to the beginning of their career, as well as those who have publicly \u2018named\u2019 them.<\/p>\n \t\t Banksy began their artistic journey as one of Bristol\u2019s DryBreadZ Crew. They were influenced by others on the Bristol Underground Scene \u2013 including 3D, better known as Robert Del Naja, one of the members of the band Massive Attack.<\/p>\n Rumours that Banksy is Massive Attack\u2019s Robert Del Naja have persisted. The performer identified himself as a personal friend of Banksy, and in June 2017, rapper Goldie referred\u00a0to Banksy as \u2018Rob\u2019 when conversing about art in a podcast interview with Scroobius Pip.<\/p>\n Interestingly, the timing of Banksy\u2019s past works across the world is in tandem with the touring schedule of Massive Attack.<\/p>\n \t\t However, Goldie may have been referring to Robin Gunningham, who was said to be Banksy by some former schoolmates from Bristol and associates in a 2008\u00a0Mail on Sunday investigation.<\/p>\n The suggestion that Robin Gunningham was Banksy was supported by the study of locations of Banksy\u2019s art, which correlated with the known movements of Gunningham.<\/p>\n In an interview with a Bristol community magazine, Boundless, Banksy was asked about the Robert De Naja rumours. When asked if he would confirm the claim that he was indeed Robert, he said simply: \u2018No, because I\u2019m not.\u2019<\/p>\n Speculation that Banksy is a group or collective of graffiti artists is fairly common, too, and in 2014 an internet hoax circulated that Banksy had been arrested.<\/p>\n This is an updated version of an article originally published in August 2023.<\/p>\n Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more stories like this, check our news page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Arrow Arrow Arrow \t\t\tComments \t\t\t\tAdd as preferred source \t\t\t\tNews Updates<\/p>\n Stay on top of the headlines with daily email updates.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_295132144-1141.jpg\")
\n\t\tBanksy hasn\u2019t claimed the artwork as his own, but some are speculating he\u2019s behind it (Picture: PA)<\/p>\n
\nCentre Point at Tottenham Court Road<\/p>\n![\"Mandatory](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_278683119-dd0f-e1766391957437.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe version that\u2019s undoubtedly been seen by more people, on Tottenham Court Road (Picture: Vuk Valcic\/ZUMA Press Wire\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n![\"Shocking](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_265453507-557c-e1757495723294.jpg\")
\n\t\tBanksy\u2019s latest mural being washed off the wall of the Royal Courts of Justice (Picture: Christopher Ing\/SWNS)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEC_216487850-58d2.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe fourth work appeared in Peckham, southeast London (Picture: Banksy\/Instagram)<\/p>\n![\"LONDON,](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_216749140-590d.jpg\")
\n\t\tPelicans munching on fish in Walthamstow (Picture: Getty)<\/p>\n![\"Banksy](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_216127882_01e2bc.jpg\")
\n\t\tBanksy shared this snap of a woman walking her dog, oblivious to the art above her (Picture: Banksy)<\/p>\n![\"epaselect](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_216501920-b530.jpg\")
\n\t\tThree swinging monkeys appeared below an Overground line (Picture: EPA)<\/p>\n![\"Banksy](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_215979675-04d6-e1723125507750.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe first Banksy piece appeared in Kew, west London, one year ago (Picture: Aaron Chown\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_217233428-9750.jpg\")
\n\t\tWhose eyes are still hiding in the dark after this graffiti gorilla liberated animals from captivity? (Picture: Simon Stephenson \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n![\"LONDON](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_246272773-48fc.jpg\")
\n\t\tA Banksy of the Royal Family waving on a balcony in Stoke Newington (Picture: Getty Images Europe)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_196504853-73dd.jpg\")
\n\t\tA Banksy tree mural in Finsbury Park (Picture: Ella Nunn\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n![\"Banksy's](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_246272754-4522.jpg\")
\n\t\tBanksy\u2019s Falling Shopper in Mayfair (Picture: Alberto Pezzali\/NurPhoto)<\/p>\n![\"Viaduct](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_246280917-045c.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe Guard Dog at the Viaduct in Shoreditch<\/p>\n![\"Banksy's](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_246281779-2287.jpg\")
\n\t\tHis Master\u2019s Voice, also at the Viaduct<\/p>\n![\"Banksys](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_246272762-404f.jpg\")
\n\t\tMy Taps Been Phoned in Poplar (Picture: NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ad_132358956.jpg\")
\n\t\tA Banksy in Cheltenham, the home of government surveillance agency GCHQ, which has since been removed (Picture: SWNS)<\/p>\n
\nLuxury Rentals Only \u2013 Cromer, Norfolk
\nSwooping Seagull \u2013 Lowestoft
\nModel Village \u2013 Great Yarmouth
\nAmusement Arcane Crane \u2013 Gorleston, Norfolk
\nCouple Dancing \u2013 Great Yarmouth
\nWe\u2019re All In The Same Boat \u2013 Lowestoft
\nValentine\u2019s Day \u2013 Marsh Lane, Bristol
\nEscaping Prisoner \u2013 Reading Prison
\nSneezing Woman \u2013 Bristol
\nHula Hoop Girl \u2013 Nottingham
\nReindeers \u2013 Birmingham
\nDevolved Parliament \u2013 Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
\nSeason\u2019s Greetings \u2013 Port Talbot
\nThe Mild Mild West \u2013 Bristol
\nWell Hung Lover \u2013 Bristol
\nThis Is Not A Photo Opportunity \u2013 Cheddar Gorge, Somerset
\nLenin Punk \u2013 Weston-super-Mare
\nTesco Sandcastle \u2013 Hastings
\nWinnie The Pooh Bear Trap \u2013 Bristol
\nIce Cream Bomb \u2013 Brighton
\nArt Buff \u2013 Folkestone
\nBurning Tyre \u2013 Bristol
\nDraw The Raised Bridge \u2013 Hull
\nGirl With The Pierced Eardrum \u2013 Bristol<\/p>\n![\"Banksy](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_184927522-241e.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe Peckham sign was stolen in broad daylight (Picture: Aaron Chown\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n![\"LONDON,](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_196530935-5cff.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe price of the art increased after the shredding (Picture: Jack Taylor\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PRI_151084595.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe picture fetched \u00a316.8 million (Picture: Andrew Matthews\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pri_53460522.jpg\")
\n\t\tOne of Banksy\u2019s iconic murals (Picture: REX\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/458364485.jpg\")
\n\t\tRobert Del Naja of Massive Attack has denied claims that he is Banksy (Picture: Brian Rasic\/WireImage)<\/p>\n
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