Last summer, a Banksy, who shocked London, was squeezed away until the next act: starring in the London Museum.
In this work, a fish tank filled with Piranhas, appeared overnight on August 11, 2024, is one of nine animal-themed interventions, with artists spreading throughout the capital for nine consecutive days. The mural paints painted on the windows of the police sentinel box in the financial district, turning the stall into a fish tank. However, the audience looked closely and found that the fish were not harmless, they were jagged teeth. Critics suggest that the piece hints at Damien Hirst’s pickled shark, repositioning here is a comment on surveillance and policing.
according to BBC, First show it in Guildhall Yard and then transfer it to storage. It will resurface in 2026 at the London Museum’s New Smithfield home, part of a $280 million relocation project expected to attract 2 million visitors a year.
“Our series now spans Roman graffiti to Banks,” curator Glyn Davies head told The BBC
Piranhas It is also a consensus favorite among Banksy-Watchers and stands out among the allegorical features including monkeys swinging from the bridge, elephants gazing at Chelsea windows and rhinoes with Nissan Micra, its color, placement and layering allegorical features. Kelly Grovier, the author of the forthcoming artist book, called the “ghostly shoal of Piranhas”, “restored” Hirst’s now grumpy shark.
The wider series briefly turned London into a zoological guess game. Every August, Instagram users guess the meaning of the latest phantom every morning: the wolf lingered in the satellite dish, the pelicans plundered the fish shop logo, and a goat preschooled on the key bridge. Half the fun is conjecture, while the other half sees these works intervening in the disruptors, competitor labels or local authorities.
