Banksy unveils new paintings of two elephants on constructing in London
Banksy today unveiled a second new artwork in London in less than 24 hours, this time depicting two elephants poking their heads out of blocked out windows.
The street artist shared a photo of the wall art which features two dark elephant silhouettes with their trunks stretched out towards each other on Instagram today.
The woman seen in front of the house on the corner of Edith Terrace and Edith Grove in Chelsea is said to be Lucy Boultbee-Brooks, 32, who was walking her dog Rufus.
Miss Boultbee-Brooks, from Hereford, is an asset manager for her family’s property investment and development firm Boultbee Brooks Real Estate. She posted a picture of Banksy’s image on her Instagram Stories with the caption: ‘Rufus made it.’
It comes after Bristol-based Banksy revealed an artwork of a goat perched on top of a wall near Kew Bridge in West London yesterday.
Banksy has unveiled another new artwork in Chelsea depicting two elephants poking their heads out of blocked out windows – his second piece to appear in London in less than 24 hours
The artwork is located on the corner of Edith Terrace and Edith Grove in Chelsea (file image)
The artist posted the Kew Bridge piece featuring the goat silhouette with rocks falling down below it and a CCTV camera pointed at it, on Instagram yesterday.
It follows a migrant boat created by Banksy, which was crowdsurfed at Glastonbury in June, during performances by Bristol indie punk band Idles and rapper Little Simz.
It was described by then-home secretary James Cleverly as ‘trivialising’ small boats crossings and ‘vile’, but the artist said his reaction was a ‘a bit over the top’.
Banksy said it was the real boat he funded being detained by Italian authorities, after it had rescued unaccompanied children at sea, that he deemed ‘vile and unacceptable’.
In March, he created a tree mural near Finsbury Park in North London, which saw a tree cut back with green paint sprayed behind it to give the impression of foliage.
A stencil of a person holding a pressure hose was also sketched on to the building. The vivid paint colour matched that used by Islington Council for local street signs.
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