Whose eyes are still hiding in the dark after this graffiti gorilla liberated animals from captivity? (Picture: Simon Stephenson / SWNS)
Banksy has unveiled what may be the biggest clue yet as to the meaning of his graffiti campaign across London.
All nine of the artworks produced around the city in has many days have featured animals interacting in some way with their environment.
Today a new piece emerged of a gorilla at London Zoo, painted as if it’s lifting a shutter to free animals, including birds and a seal, from captivity.
Many of the previous pieces have featured similar themes of confinement and escape.
This includes a goat appearing trapped on the precarious ledge of a pillar, and two elephants reaching from bricked-up windows in an attempt to touch trunks.
Does this hint towards the message Banksy is trying to send, or are such theories ‘way too involved’, as The Observer reported the artist’s representatives Pest Control as indicating.
The debate over the series’ true meaning has been brewing ever since the first piece was seen on Monday last week.
Banksy’s murals have popped up all over London – from north to south, and east to west (Picture: Metro/Getty Images)
Banksy’s painting of a rhino mounting a car in south east London
A school of piranhas swimming in the windows of a police box on Ludgate Hill in the City of London (Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire)
A cat stretching on a dilapidated billboard on Edgware Road in Cricklewood (Picture: SWNS)
Early that morning, a painting of a goat appeared balancing on a pillar with rocks falling off appeared at Kew Green in Richmond.
Then two elephants appeared on Edith Terrace, Chelsea, where the average price of a home reached over £750,000 in the last year alone, according to RightMove.
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On Wednesday it seemed a pattern was emerging, with three monkeys painted like they were swinging across a London Overground bridge over Brick Lane.
But that trend of rising numbers was broken on Wednesday when a lone wolf howling towards the sky appeared on a satellite dish on Rye Lane in Peckham.
Two pelicans eating fish above a fish bar on Northcote Road, Walthamstow
A wolf howling at the sky before the satellite dish it was painted on got stolen on Rye Lane, Peckham (Picture: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/Shutterstock/Rex Features)
Three monkeys swinging across a Brick Lane railway bridge (Picture: Matthew Chattle/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Two elephants reaching from windows to touch each other’s trunks on a building on Esther Terrace, Chelsea (Picture: Banksy)
A goat balancing precariously on a pillar with rocks falling off, on Kew Green in Richmond (Picture: Aaron Chown/PA Wire)
It was stolen by three men who scaled the roof with a ladder just an hour later.
Two pelicans eating fish were spotted atop the sign of Bonners Fish Bar in Walthamstow on Friday morning.
A black cat was then spotted stretching on a dilapidated billboard, overgrown with leaves, on Saturday before contractors were seen removing it.
Yesterday, Banksy unveiled an artwork depicting a rhino, painted in such a way that it appears to be mounting a parked car with a traffic cone on its hood on an industrial site along Westmoor Street, Charlton, south east London.
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