\n The artwork depicting a police officer spray-painting a heart has appeared at Adelaide Crescent in Brighton.\n<\/p>\n
\n The graffiti style is very similar to Banksy and has sparked debate among locals as to whether it is a genuine piece.\n<\/p>\n
\n The mysterious artist often posts his work on Instagram, a reliable way to verify his work, however, the Brighton piece is yet to feature.\n<\/p>\n
\n Many people took to social media to speculate over the artwork, however the majority agreed it was unlikely to be a genuine piece.\n<\/p>\n
\n One user wrote: “Absolutely no context, comment or interaction with environment. Not a bad throw up and nod to him but that is not a Banksy.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Another added: “Looks too flat and amateur.”\n<\/p>\n
\n A representative for Banksy has since confirmed to the BBC it is not his latest work. The Argus has contacted Banksy’s team.\n<\/p>\n
\n The identity of Banksy remains a mystery, but there has been much speculation over who he really is.\n<\/p>\n
\n Suggested identities have included Art Attack host Neil Buchanan, Massive Attack musician Robert Del Naja, and the Gorillaz founder Jamie Hewlett.\n<\/p>\n
\n His work first began appearing in the early 90s in Bristol, where many believe the artist is from.\n<\/p>\n
\n Banksy’s most recently confirmed piece was a sculpture of a man striding off a plinth with a flag in his face, in Pall Mall, London.\n<\/p>\n
\n He posted a video of the work on his Instagram page on April 30, confirming his link to the piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artwork depicting a police officer spray-painting a heart has appeared at Adelaide Crescent in Brighton. The graffiti…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-670859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}