{"id":408002,"date":"2025-09-08T14:26:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/408002\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:26:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:26:24","slug":"new-banksy-mural-appears-at-royal-courts-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/408002\/","title":{"rendered":"New Banksy mural appears at Royal Courts of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy has appeared on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in central London.<\/p>\n

It depicts a judge in a traditional wig and black robe hitting a protester lying on the ground, with blood splattering their placard. <\/p>\n

While the mural does not reference a particular cause or incident, its appearance comes two days after almost 900 people were arrested at a London protest against the ban on Palestine Action<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The artwork was quickly covered up by large sheets of plastic and two metal barriers, under the guard of two security officers.<\/p>\n

The spot Banksy chose is on the usually quiet Carey Street at the back of the Royal courts – but on Monday it was busy with onlookers taking pictures of the recently hidden patch of wall.<\/p>\n

One said they did not know how much longer they would be required to stand guard, adding “at least it’s not raining”.<\/p>\n

The Bristol-based street artist shared a photo of the wall art on Instagram, which is Banksy’s usual method of claiming a work as authentic. The artist captioned the picture: “Royal Courts Of Justice. London.”<\/p>\n

The artwork is on an external wall of the Queen’s Building, part of the Royal Courts of Justice complex.<\/p>\n

Banksy’s stencilled graffiti is often critical of government policy, war and capitalism.<\/p>\n

Last summer, the artist began an animal-themed campaign in the capital of nine works, which concluded with a gorilla appearing to lift up a shutter on the entrance to London Zoo.<\/p>\n

Other notable works included piranhas swimming on a police sentry box in the City of London, and a howling wolf on a satellite dish, which was taken off the roof of a shop in Peckham, south London, less than an hour after it was unveiled.<\/p>\n

Banksy has in the past also been known for his work in the West Bank. <\/p>\n

In December 2019 he created a “modified Nativity” at a hotel in Bethlehem <\/a>which showed Jesus’ manger in front of Israel’s separation barrier, which appeared to have been pierced by a blast, creating the shape of a star.<\/p>\n

Israel says the barrier is needed is to prevent infiltrations from the West Bank but Palestinians say it is a tool to grab land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy has appeared on the side of the Royal Courts of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-408002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115169144708319443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}