Banksy Unveils Daily Animal Murals Across London in August 2024 Series

On August 5, 2024, at 12:00:02 PM London time, Banksy posted on Instagram and his website a black silhouette of an Alpine ibex on a buttress near Kew Bridge, west London. The image file was initially named "day-1.jpg", later changed to "goat.jpg" and then "image1.jpg", signaling a multi-day series. Over subsequent days, Banksy released new works daily at around noon: on August 6, two elephants with trunks touching on a neoclassical facade; on August 7, three chimpanzees hanging from a railway bridge; on August 8, a wolf howling at a satellite dish moon above a shuttered shop. The series recalls his past summer projects like Dismaland (2015), the Paris campaign (2018), the London tube paintings (2020), and the Great British Spraycation (2021). Banksy's use of animals—goats, elephants, chimpanzees, wolves—continues his established iconography, with the wolf being a new motif. The works appear in a heavily surveilled London amid civil unrest, and Banksy reportedly used a small hydraulic lift and a bearded friend, as reported by The Independent. The series is expected to conclude within the week.