Banksy goes on a mural-making spree in England
The elusive street artist Banksy has been producing works in secret along the east coast of England.
His latest project, the Great British Spraycation, has seen a series of his murals pop up throughout the country displaying his signature style.
The anonymous artist took to his Instagram to share news of his project, focusing on his travels in a campervan.
The first of the murals, featuring a couple dancing on top of a bus shelter and a man playing an accordion, was spotted in Norfolk by eagle-eyed fans.
The second artwork shows an arcade toy-grabber crane that appeared in a small town just 10 minutes away from the first mural.
More artworks, one depicting a child building a sandcastle with a crowbar, the other featuring three children in a boat, soon arrived in the neighbouring county of Suffolk.
In an unusual move for the artist, Banksy also left a miniature thatched stable bearing his signature at the Merrivale Model Village.
His short film posted to Instagram brought attention to his more wholesome artworks, such as an ice cream cone and tongue added to a statue of Frederick Savage, a 19th century mayor of King’s Lynn.
One critical passerby is captured in the video, calling one of his mural’s “mindless vandalism”.
One of his artworks from the Great British Spraycation, which depicted two children on an inflatable dinghy, has already been removed by local authorities, claiming it was distasteful.
Council members in the town of Great Yarmouth told the BBC that the artwork was covered up amid “sensitivity” to a young girl who died after being flung from an inflatable trampoline on a nearby beach in 2018.
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