{"id":426564,"date":"2026-05-01T07:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/426564\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:28:12","slug":"artist-banksy-confirms-he-is-behind-new-statue-in-central-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/426564\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Banksy confirms he is behind new statue in central London"},"content":{"rendered":"

The artist Banksy has stated that he is responsible for the creation and installation of a new sculpture in central London.<\/p>\n

The satirical work shows a man stepping down from a plinth with his face concealed by a flowing flag.<\/p>\n

The sculpture is situated in Waterloo Place, just off The Mall, and includes the artist’s signature.<\/p>\n

It has been installed on a traffic island on Pall Mall, a location the artist said had “a bit of a gap”.<\/p>\n

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\nThe artwork features the artist’s signature (Pic: Getty)<\/p>\n

The work is positioned near existing monuments, including statues of Edward VII and Florence Nightingale, as well as the Crimean War Memorial.<\/p>\n

The surrounding area largely features memorials associated with British imperial and military history of the 19th century.<\/p>\n

Banksy, whose identity has not been officially confirmed, has built an international reputation over the past three decades through a body of work spanning street murals, installations and interventions, often featuring politically themed imagery and appearing without prior notice in cities around the world.<\/p>\n

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\nThe statue is located in London’s Waterloo Place (Pic: Martin Pope\/Getty)<\/p>\n

The new sculpture is believed to have been installed by a team of workers without permission in the early hours of Wednesday, April 29th and was publicly claimed by the artist the next day via a statement issued to the BBC.<\/p>\n

Westminster City Council, which is responsible for the site, said it had taken initial steps to protect the sculpture and that it would remain accessible to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artist Banksy has stated that he is responsible for the creation and installation of a new sculpture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-426564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}