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By DAVID OLASEINDE <\/p>\n

Published: 15:28 EST, 24 December 2025 | Updated: 17:34 EST, 24 December 2025 <\/p>\n

Banksy is thought to have emerged again for the second time in two days – this time with artwork featuring a reindeer adorned with Christmas lights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The elusive street artist is believed to be behind a stencil of the animal which appeared on a wall of a disused tennis court changing rooms in London<\/a> Fields, Hackney, overnight.<\/p>\n

Its antlers are tangled in multi-coloured fairy lights hanging from a metal bar attached to the blue wall.<\/p>\n

The artist is yet to confirm that the reindeer is his, but this piece is reminiscent of his style.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The work appeared 24 hours after two other pieces – confirmed Banksy’s – of children, in Bayswater and near the Centre Point building in Central London.<\/p>\n

The identical images show two children lying on the ground dressed in wellington boots, coats and winter bobble hats, one of them pointing upwards towards the sky.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Experts say the Bayswater location was chosen to make a point about child homelessness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The artist announced his new work by posting an image to his social media on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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A new artwork by Banksy shows a reindeer adorned with Christmas lights\u00a0on a wall of a disused tennis court changing rooms in London Fields, Hackney<\/p>\n

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The work appeared 24 hours after two other pieces- confirmed Banksy’s \u2013 of children, in Bayswater and near the Centre Point building in Central London<\/p>\n

In September, a Banksy mural showing a protester on the floor holding a blood-spattered placard while a judge hit him with a gavel appeared on the front of the Royal Courts of Justice building.<\/p>\n

It was swiftly covered up by officials, with security guards seen patrolling in front of a screen concealing the artwork.<\/p>\n

The artwork followed almost 900 people being arrested in central London at a demonstration supporting banned group Palestine Action, in what was thought to be Britain’s biggest ever mass arrest.<\/p>\n

Banksy<\/a> has a long association with releasing work around Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the past eight years, Banksy has made a habit of appearing in the run-up to Christmas, unveiling works that deliver pointed social commentary.<\/p>\n

His Santa\u2019s Ghetto project ran intermittently between 2002 and 2007 as a temporary, Christmas-only exhibition staged in improvised locations across London, before culminating in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n

Among the works were a depiction of Jesus Christ on the cross clutching shopping bags, and an image of a young boy attempting to catch snowflakes that were, in fact, ashes from a burning bin.<\/p>\n

His other murals in London have included nine animal-themed pictures that appeared in nine different locations across the capital in August last year.<\/p>\n

His final piece depicted a gorilla lifting the shutters of London Zoo to release a sea lion and birds, while other wildlife appear to look out from the inside.<\/p>\n

It came after stencils of a goat, elephants, monkeys, a wolf, pelicans, a cat, piranhas and a rhinoceros were drawn across the city.<\/p>\n

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