If you’re walking past Kew Green today and see a goat on a wall with certain Banskyisms to it, that’s because it was created by Banksy. The elusive artist took to their Instagram page today to claim the piece, which is on the West London wall, available to go and check out now.
The artwork at the resembles a goat, carefully painted onto a pillar coming out the wall to symbolise an edge of surface, made clear by the painted rocks falling beneath its hooves – all with a CCTV camera pointed directly at the animal.
Credit: @banksy, Instagram
It comes months after a giant Banksy mural was also unveiled in North London; one that used a splash of green to paint a bare tree in the winter via a nearby wall. Like his latest piece using the pillar coming out the wall and the CCTV camera, it was a clever way of bringing to life a part of the neighbourhood’s furniture that might have gone unnoticed each day, and give them a life beyond being a mundane London object.
No meaning via the caption has been given, but many have already taken to the comments section to put their interpretations forward.
Commenting on the post, Instagram user Rob Bartlett said: “The goat represents the human race on the precipice, ‘of the edge of extinction’, the jump is not important better to take a few steps backwards 🙏”
Other users points out the potential meaning of the goat facing the CCTV camera, with one user, Steven Warburton, saying of the work: “Gorgeous. I’m trying to figure out if the camera is threatening or curious.”
Find the latest Banksy work at Kew Green – it is thought to sit by Kew Brudge.