Overview
- Banksy posted two photos on his official Instagram on Monday confirming authorship of the Bayswater piece above garages on Queen’s Mews.
- An almost identical stencil at the foot of the Centre Point tower was widely reported but was not claimed by the artist on his account.
- Some outlets reported the Centre Point version appeared earlier, intensifying debate over provenance and why only one site was acknowledged.
- The black-and-white image shows two figures, likely children, lying and pointing upward; Banksy’s photos frame a crane’s red light and an overflowing skip.
- Observers link the motif and Centre Point’s history as a housing-crisis symbol to themes of child homelessness, echoing the social focus of Banksy’s recent Royal Courts of Justice mural.