Two More Banksy Animal Artworks Arrive Over The Weekend

And on the seventh day, Banksy sat back and clicked ‘post’ to claim the work of a striking set of piranhas on a City Of London Police Box.

One day earlier, the artist did the very same, sending out a cat artwork to add to the goat, elephants, monkeys, wolf and pelicans that had come before.

Credit: @banksy via Instagram

Will it be a one-week thing, or will the Banksy animals continue into a second set of seven-days? We’ll find out later today, but in case you missed it, here’s what happened over the weekend in the world of the Banksy animal kingdom.

On Saturday (August 10), the artist posted a picture of the sixth animal artwork of the London collection, showing off a big cat doing the ‘big stretch’ pose on a disused advertising board. However, the excitement for this one was slightly short-lived, with the artwork in Cricklewood being taken down by contractors on the same day.

Credit: @banksy via Instagram

It’s not the first of the artworks to have a short life, either. The howling wolf piece, which was posted on Thursday (August 8), and marked the fourth work, was filmed as a group of masked men appeared to take it hours after it went up.

The piranha piece on day seven is one that’d be tricky to move, however, as it’s set on a City Of London police box. These swimming fish are set to a blue sea background and differ in style from all the other six pieces – more aquarium than a black silhouette.

Like each piece, the two weekend posts were presented by Banksy without a caption, which left Instagram users to debate their meaning of them in the comments section.