Banksy adds to London animal art collection with third painting in three days

Banksy has posted artwork of three monkeys as the third piece of a new animal-themed collection.

It is the third black silhouette composition that the Bristol-based street artist has claimed credit for since Monday.

On Wednesday he posted an image on Instagram of the monkeys looking as though they were swinging on the bridge of an east London tube station.

It has been done in black, on a bridge over Brick Lane, near a vintage clothing shop and a coffee house in the popular market street, not far from Shoreditch High Street.

On Tuesday he posted a photo of two elephant silhouettes, with their trunks stretched towards each other. He posted artwork of a goat perched on top of a wall near Kew Bridge in Richmond on Monday.

He did not write a caption for any of the Instagram posts, which has fuelled speculated online about their meaning.

Three monkeys have been associated with the Japanese proverb “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”.

In Banksy’s work the monkeys are not covering their eyes, ears or mouths.

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