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Banksy mural in Finsbury Park vandalised three days after it appeared…


A new Banksy mural in North London has been defaced three days after it was first revealed in Finsbury Park.

Two streaks of white paint appeared on the green artwork on Hornsey Road in Finsbury Park on Wednesday morning.

The work first appeared on a residential building in north London on Sunday before the anonymous street artist confirmed it was his in an Instagram post on Monday.

The art piece features swathes of green behind a pared back tree to give the appearance of leaves, with a stencil of a person holding a pressure hose next to it.

Someone’s vandalised the Banksy overnight. Gutted. Why can’t people let a community be happy without trying to ruin it. pic.twitter.com/EuY0nfh5tT

— Amy (@psychologyamyb) March 20, 2024

Amy, who shares a wall with the new Banksy artwork, spotted the white paint splattered on the mural and on the fence protecting it when she got up to go to the gym on Wednesday morning.

The resident, who only gave her first name, said the vandalism looked like a “drive by incident”.

She told the Standard: “It’s a real mess, frustrating something hasn’t been able to be organised to protect it sooner.

“It was done from the other side of the fence as the paint has hit the fence and the floor in front of it.”

The Hornsey Road resident added that the Banksy had been a “total surprise” and that she did not hear anything when the artwork was put up or vandalised.

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