23 Banksy Works Still Surviving in London in 2026
Banksy has created more than 50 stencils, murals, installations and sculptural interventions across London. Most have disappeared. From a flag-blinded monument in St James’s and two children beneath the lights of Centre Point to faded rats, protected Shoreditch classics and remnants barely clinging to the city, GraffitiStreet maps 23 credible Banksy works still surviving across the capital.
The sculpture on Waterloo Place in St James’s is the latest chapter in a relationship between Banksy and London that now extends across more than 25 years.
During that time, the artist has used shopfronts, railway bridges, courtyards, cash machines, trees, vehicles and institutional façades to challenge authority, consumer culture, policing, war, environmental decline and the art establishment itself. Yet Banksy’s London history is also a history of disappearance.
Murals have been painted over by councils, cut from walls by property owners, altered by rival graffiti writers, stolen within hours or removed for institutional safekeeping. Even works protected behind perspex have faded, clouded or become almost impossible to see.
This GraffitiStreet guide brings together 23 credible Banksy works, preserved sections and recognisable remnants that still physically survive in London as of 23 July 2026.
Not every entry offers the same experience. Some remain clear and publicly visible. Others are damaged, obscured, relocated within new architecture or widely attributed without having been officially claimed.
St James’s, Westminster and the Strand
1. Flag-Blinded Statue
Location: Waterloo Place, St James’s, London SW1Y Status: Confirmed by Banksy; standing behind barriers
A suited man marches forward while the flag he carries covers his face.
The symbolism is immediate, but its location prevents it from becoming simplistic. Waterloo Place is surrounded by monuments commemorating Britain’s military, political and imperial history. Banksy’s figure imitates their bronze authority while quietly reversing it. This leader is not looking towards a glorious future. He cannot see where he is going.
The statue appeared outside the Athenaeum Club on 29 April 2026 and was confirmed by Banksy on Instagram the following day. The artist’s footage showed the substantial sculpture and plinth being installed at night with the assistance of a crane.
Protective fencing was erected after approximately a day, but the sculpture remained standing in the latest comprehensive London survey.
Banksy, Waterloo Place, St James’s, London.Image copyright GraffitiStreet
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2. Royal Courts of Justice Protester
Location: Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A Status: Confirmed by Banksy; original image removed, residual trace obscured
Banksy’s September 2025 intervention depicted a judge in ceremonial wig and gown striking a protester lying on the ground.
The protester held a blood-marked placard. The judge’s raised gavel became less an instrument of legal judgment than a weapon of physical control.
The location was inseparable from the work. Banksy placed the image directly onto the Royal Courts of Justice, transforming the stone façade of British law into a scene of institutional violence.
The mural appeared during a period of intense public debate about protest, policing and restrictions on political dissent. Banksy did not caption the image with a specific cause, allowing the relationship between law and suppression to remain deliberately broader.
Authorities covered it almost immediately and removed most of the painted image from the protected stone. That removal was incomplete, leaving a pale shadow before the site was further obscured.
The remaining trace is no longer a conventional Banksy viewing experience. Yet its disappearance became part of the work’s meaning: an image about the silencing of protest was itself rapidly hidden and erased by the institution it confronted.
If you peek through you can still see the ghost of the mural.
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3. Stargazing Children at Centre Point
Location: St Giles Square, beneath Centre Point, London WC2 Status: Attributed to Banksy; protected but damaged
Two children lie on the cold pavement and point towards the sky.
From one viewpoint, their gaze aligns with a polished seasonal advertisement filled with oversized Christmas baubles. Behind it rises Centre Point, the London landmark once left largely empty while homelessness remained visible around it, and later converted into luxury apartments.
The composition turns Christmas wonder into a study of exclusion. The children can see the imagery of celebration and abundance, but they remain physically outside it.
Centre Point also carries a deeper connection to youth homelessness. The charity Centrepoint, established in 1969, took its name from the building after campaigners drew attention to the contradiction between empty property and people sleeping without shelter.
Banksy did not separately confirm this version of the stencil, although he did confirm the closely related Queen’s Mews work. The Centre Point image must therefore be described as attributed to Banksy, rather than presented with absolute certainty.
It remains behind transparent protection, although subsequent paint damage has altered its appearance. The location and social context remain central to its force.
Banksy’s Festive Baubles Mural, London 2025. Image Copyright @Marrossi
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Bayswater, Marble Arch, Mayfair and Notting Hill
4. Stargazing Children
Location: Queen’s Mews, Bayswater, London W2 Status: Confirmed by Banksy; physically surviving but boarded over
Banksy confirmed the Queen’s Mews mural in December 2025.
It depicts two children lying on the pavement beneath an imagined night sky. Wrapped against the cold, they retain the capacity for wonder, but their game unfolds without the shelter, security or comfort normally associated with childhood.
The work redirects the sentimental visual language of Christmas towards youth homelessness. There is no decorated home, pile of presents or festive meal. Imagination is the only abundance available to them.
The mural was covered soon after it appeared. It therefore remains physically present but cannot currently be viewed in the form Banksy originally intended.
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5. Despair Ends and Tactics Begin
Location: Marble Arch, London W2 Status: Widely attributed to Banksy; never officially confirmed
A child kneels beside a newly planted sapling beneath the Extinction Rebellion hourglass symbol.
The accompanying declaration reads: “From this moment despair ends and tactics begin.“
The mural appeared during the Extinction Rebellion protests of April 2019, as the occupation around Marble Arch was being cleared. Its message turns environmental anxiety away from passive despair and towards organised action.
It remains protected beneath perspex, although grime and the surrounding environment make it difficult to view clearly.
Banksy Mural, Extinction Rebellion protests, Marble Arch, London 2019. Image copyright GraffitiStreet
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6. Shop Till You Drop
Location: Bruton Lane, Mayfair, London W1 Status: Surviving high above street level; faded
A woman falls through the air while still gripping a shopping trolley. Banksy installed Shop Till You Drop high on the side of a Mayfair building in 2011.
The location sharpens its critique. Mayfair is synonymous with luxury retail, wealth and aspirational consumption. Banksy places the consumer not at the centre of this world, but in freefall above it.
Look up to witness this mural. Its height has protected it, although exposure and age have softened the original image.
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7. Graffiti Painter, or Velázquez
Location: Maramia Café – Taste of Palestine. Corner of Acklam Road and Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London W10 Status: Restored to public view
A figure resembling the seventeenth-century Spanish court painter Diego Velázquez stands before an easel. Instead of producing a royal portrait, he paints the name “Banksy” in large red graffiti lettering.
Created in 2008, the mural collapses the traditional distinction between sanctioned painting and illegal mark-making. The old master and anonymous graffiti writer occupy the same creative act.
The panel was concealed for years during surrounding construction before being uncovered and restored to view. Its return is especially appropriate: a mural about which types of painting society chooses to legitimise has itself moved between exposure, concealment and preservation.
The Banksy work can be found where Acklam Road meets Portobello Road.
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8. Elephants
Location: Corner of Edith Terrace and Edith Grove, Chelsea, London SW10 Status: Visible following defacement and repair
Two elephant heads reach towards one another from a pair of blocked windows.
The mural appeared during Banksy’s nine-day London animal series in August 2024. Its use of sealed windows immediately suggested the familiar phrase “the elephant in the room”: an enormous truth visible to everyone but openly acknowledged by no one.
The architecture does most of the storytelling. Banksy uses the blocked openings to imply that the elephants inhabit an unseen space just behind the wall.
The work was later defaced with pale stripes but subsequently cleaned. It remains recognisable on the original building and continues to be documented as a surviving part of the 2024 series.
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Islington, Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington
9. Tree- Green Washing
Location: Hornsey Road, Finsbury Park, London N19 Status: Visible, protected and damaged
Banksy’s Tree appeared in March 2024 behind a severely pollarded cherry tree.
A huge field of vivid green paint spreads across the wall like an artificial canopy. Beside it, a stencilled figure holding a pressure hose appears responsible for spraying the absent foliage into existence.
From the correct viewpoint, the living tree and painted wall briefly become one composition.
The work has been interpreted as a warning about the treatment of urban nature, as a criticism of environmental greenwashing and as an image of artificial restoration standing in for genuine ecological care.
It was splashed with white paint shortly after its appearance. Protective fencing and panels were subsequently installed, while the real tree has since produced foliage of its own.
These changes have weakened the original illusion, but they have also extended the work’s narrative. The living subject has continued changing while Banksy’s painted substitute has weathered behind protection.
Banklsy “Eco Tree” mural, Hornsey Road 2024. Image Copyright Graffitistreet
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Read our full feature of Banksy’s Hornsey Road tree mural, including GraffitiStreet’s first-hand reporting from the site and why the work may be understood as a powerful commentary on greenwashing.
10. Royal Family, or Balcony Family
Location: Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 Status: Weathered but recognisable
Banksy’s caricatured royal family has been waving from Stoke Newington Church Street since approximately 2001.
The group imitates a formal Buckingham Palace balcony appearance, but the exaggerated faces turn royal ceremony into something closer to a cartoon family spectacle.
The work belongs to an early phase in Banksy’s London practice. Hackney Council began painting over parts of the mural in 2009. Local intervention reportedly stopped the process before the central family group was completely erased, although much of the surrounding palace-like architecture was lost.
Its survival is remarkable. More than two decades of weather, intervention and changing attitudes towards Banksy remain written across the wall.
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The City and the Barbican
11. Robbo Rat
Location: Chiswell Street, London EC1 Status: Visible behind protection
A medallion-wearing rat holds a placard declaring its relationship with London.
The work became entangled in Banksy’s long-running conflict with the London graffiti writer King Robbo. Text beneath the placard was changed, overwritten and later obscured, placing the stencil inside one of British graffiti’s most significant public rivalries.
The feud intensified after Banksy painted over a long-standing Robbo piece beside Regent’s Canal. Robbo and his supporters subsequently altered several Banksy works, challenging the privilege that allowed one graffiti writer’s interventions to be protected while others were routinely erased.
The Chiswell Street rat survives behind a plastic covering, although stickers and later marks continue to alter its presentation.
It is not simply a surviving Banksy. It is evidence of the culture that refused to allow his rise to remain uncontested.
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12. Cannon Street Rat
Location: Beneath Cannon Street railway bridge, London EC4 Status: Faded but visible
A small Banksy rat survives on a concrete support beneath the Cannon Street railway bridge.
The stencil is badly faded and easily missed among the grime and visual noise of the city. It lacks the protection granted to several better-known Banksys and has remained exposed to weather, pollution and competing marks.
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13. Basquiat Ferris Wheel
Location: Beech Street tunnel, Barbican, London EC1 Status: Protected and comparatively well preserved
Banksy installed two murals beside the Barbican Centre in September 2017, shortly before the opening of Basquiat: Boom for Real.
“Major new Basquiat show opens at the Barbican – a place that is normally very keen to clean any graffiti from its walls.” Banksy
In the first, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s three-pointed crown becomes the structure of a Ferris wheel. Visitors queue beneath it as though Basquiat’s radical visual language has become a ticketed attraction.
The mural is not a criticism of Basquiat. Its target is the institutional conversion of counterculture into cultural entertainment.
Banksy underlined the contradiction by noting that the Barbican was normally keen to remove graffiti from its walls, even as it prepared to celebrate an artist whose career had emerged from the streets of New York.
The work remains behind transparent protection near the Beech Street entrance.
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14. Basquiat Stop and Search
Location: Beech Street tunnel, Barbican, London EC1 Status: Protected and comparatively well preserved
The second Barbican mural adapts the central figure from Basquiat’s Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump.
Banksy places police officers on either side of the figure and subjects him to a stop and search. He introduced the work as a portrait of Basquiat being welcomed by the Metropolitan Police.
The mural contrasts two forms of institutional attention. Inside the gallery, Basquiat is celebrated as a major twentieth-century artist. Outside it, a young Black figure derived from his work is immediately treated as suspicious.
The intervention therefore addresses not only the commercialisation of street culture, but racial profiling and the unequal distribution of cultural legitimacy.
It survives behind perspex close to the Ferris Wheel mural.
Banksy Basquiat Tribute, Barbican centre, London. Photo credit Banksy 2017
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Shoreditch, Hoxton, Brick Lane and Bethnal Green
15. Guard Dog, or Designated Graffiti Area
Location: Former Cargo courtyard, Rivington Street, London EC2 Status: Surviving; access depends on the courtyard
Walk past the crocodile of Thierry noir and you will see a uniformed guard beside a poodle and an official-looking notice designating the wall as a graffiti area.
The contradiction is pure Banksy. Graffiti, an art form defined by acting without institutional permission, has apparently been authorised by the authority expected to prevent it. The poodle further weakens the officer’s attempt to project intimidation.
The mural remains in the courtyard of the former Cargo nightclub. The site has changed use since the venue closed, and access depends on the courtyard being open. Also inside is ‘His Masters Voice‘ by Banksy.
Former Cargo courtyard, Rivington Street, London. Image copyright GraffitiStreet
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16. His Master’s Voice
Location: Former Cargo courtyard, Rivington Street, London EC2 Status: Surviving; access may vary
Banksy’s His Master’s Voice reverses one of Britain’s most familiar commercial images. In the original HMV emblem, the dog Nipper listens obediently to a gramophone. Banksy turns the listener against the machine, replacing passive attention with a bazooka aimed directly into its horn.
The image has often been understood as a rebellion against cultural gatekeeping and the traditional music industry’s control over production and distribution.
Banksy first developed the composition in Bristol before recreating it at Cargo. Another artist was later permitted to contribute the energetic yellow and orange background surrounding the central stencil.
The work survives in the same courtyard as the previous Guard Dog.
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17. Knife-and-Fork Rat
Location: Art’otel London Hoxton, 1–3 Rivington Street, London EC2 Status: Preserved and visible from the street
Banksy’s largest London rat once occupied the rear of The Foundry, a Shoreditch pub and cultural venue associated with the area’s early creative community.
The rat holds a knife and fork as though waiting to consume the city.
During redevelopment, engineers preserved the section of masonry carrying the image. The substantial wall fragment was secured, lifted and incorporated into the new Art’otel London Hoxton.
The work can now be seen above the hotel entrance. Both the hotel and Londonist document its public reappearance alongside a second preserved Banksy.
Its survival presents a complicated victory. The illicit mural has been saved, but it has also become part of the visual identity of a luxury development.
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18. TV Out of the Window
Location: Art’otel London Hoxton Status: Preserved and visible from the street
A figure leans from a window and throws a television towards the pavement below.
The mural also originated on The Foundry and survived through the same specialist redevelopment process as the Knife-and-Fork Rat.
Engineers retained the original wall section rather than reproducing or cutting away only the painted surface. The result is a rare example of street art preserved through architectural surgery.
The image now carries an irony Banksy could not have fully anticipated. A television once being expelled from a countercultural building is permanently suspended above a major hotel development.
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19. Pink Car
Location: Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1 Status: Heavily deteriorated installation
A battered pink car sits inside a transparent enclosure in the Old Truman Brewery complex.
The installation originally included a skeletal grim reaper figure behind the wheel. That element is now lost, while the car and its protective structure have deteriorated substantially. It now resembles an archaeological relic more than an intact artwork. Great to see some friends also close by!
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20. Yellow Line Flower
Location: Pollard Row and Pollard Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 Status: Fragmentary
Banksy’s original 2007 composition began with double yellow road lines.
The markings travelled from the street, crossed the pavement and climbed the wall before opening into a vast yellow flower. A stencilled road painter sat nearby, apparently resting after converting an instrument of parking regulation into an improbable urban bloom.
Most of the original mural has disappeared. The painter has been painted over, the road lines have been renewed and extensive tagging now covers the wall. The flower remains sufficiently visible to identify the composition, but it should be understood as a remnant rather than a complete Banksy.
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Walthamstow, Bermondsey and Charlton
21. Pelicans Eating Fish
Location: Bonners Fish Bar, Pretoria Avenue, Walthamstow, London E17 Status: Visible and comparatively well preserved
Two pelicans have taken possession of a fish shop.
One bends towards the sign and consumes a fish already incorporated into the shopfront. The other throws a second fish into the air.
The work succeeds because Banksy treats the existing building as part of the composition rather than as a neutral surface. Remove the Bonners Fish Bar sign and much of the image’s logic disappears.
Several works from Banksy’s 2024 animal series were stolen or removed within days. The Walthamstow pelicans remain attached to their original building and are among the clearest surviving works from the sequence.
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22. Fishing Boy
Location: Thames Path, Bermondsey Wall, London SE16 Status: Extremely faded
A child sits beside the Thames holding a fishing rod.
At first, the image appears almost nostalgic. Its meaning changes when the catch is recognised: the boy has hooked a discarded syringe.
Banksy places childhood beside the physical residue of adult neglect. The river becomes both picturesque landscape and urban waste system.
The mural is now difficult to distinguish from the surrounding wall. Londonist reported that its appearance in 2022 Street View imagery remained comparable to its earlier photographic record and continued to include it in the 2026 survey.
Visitors should expect a trace, not the clear silhouette visible in historical photographs.
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23. Rhino
Location: Westmoor Street, Charlton, London SE7 Status: Wall stencil survives; original vehicle removed
Banksy painted a rhinoceros mounting a silver Nissan Micra during the August 2024 animal series.
The car was not background scenery. It completed the installation, allowing the rhinoceros on the wall to interact with a physical object in the street.
The Micra was later removed and the stencil was tagged. The rhino itself remains, but the composition no longer operates with its original comic precision.
Its survival demonstrates the vulnerability of Banksy’s site-specific works. Protecting the painted element alone does not necessarily preserve the artwork when its meaning depends on an object, building or viewpoint that can disappear.
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What Happened to Banksy’s Other London Animals?
Banksy produced nine animal interventions across London over nine consecutive days in August 2024.
Only the Chelsea elephants, Walthamstow pelicans and Charlton rhinoceros remain meaningfully visible in their original locations.
The mountain goat in Kew was removed for preservation. The Brick Lane monkeys were taken down after several months. The wolf on a Peckham satellite dish was stolen almost immediately. The large Cricklewood cat was dismantled. The piranha police kiosk was moved into institutional care. London Zoo removed its gorilla shutter for safekeeping and potential redisplay.
The series became a concentrated demonstration of everything that can happen to a Banksy: theft, vandalism, removal, preservation, relocation and institutional acquisition.
Read about our coverage of Banksy’s London Zoo.
What Counts as a Surviving Banksy?
The 23 works in this guide do not all survive in the same way. The Barbican murals are protected and comparatively clear. Fishing Boy and the Rats are almost ghosts. The Art’otel works survive because entire sections of masonry were engineered into a new building. Queen’s Mews remains behind boarding. The Royal Courts intervention survives chiefly as a trace of deliberate removal. Some, for example ATM Girl on Rosebery Avenue and Tesco Flag Children on Essex Road, were not included due to the severe deterioration.
Banksy, ATM Girl on Rosebery Avenue, London 2025
Planning a Route Between Banksy Locations in London
The 25 works cannot comfortably be visited in one day. The most practical approach is to explore them in regional clusters.
Central London: Waterloo Place, the Royal Courts of Justice, Centre Point, Chiswell Street, Cannon Street and the Barbican.
West London: Queen’s Mews, Marble Arch, Bruton Lane, Notting Hill and Chelsea.
North London: Hornsey Road and Stoke Newington Church Street.
East London: Rivington Street, Art’otel Hoxton, the Old Truman Brewery, Bethnal Green and Walthamstow.
South and southeast London: Bermondsey Wall and Charlton.
Check access before travelling, particularly at the former Cargo courtyard. Visit faded works during daylight.
Open-Air Banksy Museum?
It is tempting to describe London as an open-air Banksy museum. The phrase is attractive, but it misunderstands the nature of what survives. A museum attempts to stabilise an artwork. The street continually rewrites it.
Paint fades. Trees grow. Cars disappear. Stickers cover old rivalries. Buildings close. Protective screens preserve the stencil while distancing it from the public. Walls are cut from one architectural context and installed within another.
What remains across London is not a coherent retrospective. It is an archaeological record of Banksy’s changing practice and the city’s changing response to him.
The earliest rats still behave like illicit fragments, clinging to overlooked infrastructure. Later murals are protected almost immediately. Banksy’s latest work arrived not as a small stencil, but as a monumental sculpture capable of competing with the official statues around it.
Together, these 23 works chart Banksy’s movement from underground graffiti culture to global recognition. They also reveal the unresolved contradiction at the centre of his success: the city that once erased his work now struggles to protect, own and profit from it.
Frequently Asked Questions About Banksy Locations in London
At least 25 credible Banksy works, preserved architectural sections, installations and recognisable remnants can still be located across London. The exact total depends on whether obscured works, severely faded fragments and unconfirmed attributions are included.
Banksy’s newest confirmed London work is the flag-blinded statue installed at Waterloo Place on 29 April 2026 and confirmed by the artist on 30 April 2026.
The two Basquiat murals beside the Barbican are among the best preserved because they were protected shortly after appearing. The Walthamstow pelicans and the works structurally preserved at Art’otel London Hoxton also remain clearly recognisable.
Yes. The elephants in Chelsea, pelicans in Walthamstow and rhinoceros in Charlton remain visible. The rhinoceros has lost the car that completed the original installation.
Yes. Guard Dog and His Master’s Voice remain in the former Cargo courtyard on Rivington Street, although access depends on the courtyard being open.
None of the original London Girl with Balloon street murals survives intact in its original public location.
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