Banksy confirms fish on City of London police sentry box as his seventh mystery artwork

A seventh Banksy artwork has been confirmed in London after six others popped up each day this week.

It shows a school of piranhas, painted in far more detail than the silhouettes of previous days, on three windows of a City of London Police sentry box on Ludgate Hill.

Two police officers looked inside the box and took pictures from the outside after the painting was spotted on CCTV.

One of them said they are waiting to hear what will be done with it.

In a statement, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Spooner said: ‘We are aware of criminal damage to a City of London Police box in Ludgate Hill.

‘We are liaising with the City of London Corporation who own the police box.’

The Bristol-based street artist has unveiled a new artwork in London each day this week, although two have already been removed.

A painting of a goat appeared balancing on a pillar with rocks falling off at Kew Green in Richmond on Monday.

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.

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.

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.

Banksy has promptly confirmed their authenticity by sharing a photo of the new artwork with his  nearly 13million Instagram followers around 1pm each day.

His campaign is leading people to speculate he may be building up to a big reveal.

The artist may be trying to cheer people up with ‘unexpected amusement’ amid bleak headlines, The Observer reported yesterday.

‘What’s different this time’, expert Paul Gough told Metro, ‘is that Banksy usually leaves it a bit of time, keeps people guessing whether a piece of work is authentically his.

‘This time he is confirming it is his work straightaway, something we have not ever seen before.’

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