Man does a runner with new Banksy artwork just an hour after it was unveiled

A fourth Banksy artwork which appeared in London just an hour ago has been stolen.

This piece, located in Rye Lane, Peckham, south east London, shows a lone wolf howling towards the sky against a satellite dish.

Photos showed a group of masked men climbing up and grabbing the dish before carrying it away.

Tom Kellow who saw it all unfold said: ‘I was walking down around 1pm and saw three guys nicking it.

‘They had a ladder. There was one guy on the roof and the other two were watching the ladder.

‘They saw me filming and it got a bit tetchy. One gave me a kick in the side and another tried to throw my phone on the roof. Luckily it hit a tree and came back down again.

‘I told a police officer in the area about it.

‘It’s a great shame we can’t have nice things and it’s a shame it couldn’t have lasted more than an hour.’

The piece was posted on Banksy’s official Instagram page – which he has always used to verify his work.

Each piece that has appeared this week has been posted at 1pm each afternoon.

In December last year, another Banksy piece in Peckham was stolen shortly after being unveiled.

The installation – three aircraft resembling military drones on a stop sign – was removed by a man with bolt cutters.

It’s his fourth piece unveiled this week – the artist shared one of goats, elephants, monkeys – and now a wolf.

Paul Gough is an expert on Banksy and is a professor and vice chancellor at Arts University Bournemouth.

He revealed to Metro.co.uk that the mysterious artist could be working towards something significant.

‘Banksy is working towards a grand reveal or a big piece in the coming days,’ Paul said.

‘What’s different this time is that Banksy usually leaves it a bit of time, keeps people guessing whether a piece of work is authentically his.

‘This time he is confirming it is his work straightaway, something we have not ever seen before.

‘The question I think is how long can he sustain this both on a creative level and on a level which keeps his audience interested.’

The first sighting appeared on Monday and shows a goat precariously balancing on a pillar as rocks fall below it on Kew Green in Kew, West London.

Then two elephants appeared on Edith Terrace, Chelsea, where the average price of a home reached over £750,000 in the last year alone, according to RightMove.

On Monday one animal appeared, then on Tuesday two animals popped up and on Wednesday three elephants were featured.

But this new piece breaks the pattern of one, two, three and four animals featured.

Banksy revealed an artwork of a goat perched on top of a wall near Kew Bridge in Richmond on Monday.

But just two hours after he unveiled his goat art piece on his official Instagram page, an employee was spotted appearing to move the CCTV camera back to its original position after it was positioned facing the falling rocks.

The first piece left Banksy’s fellow followers speculating about what the meaning is behind it.

Rob Bartlett commented on the Instagram post: ‘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.’

Meanwhile Craig Strivens wrote: ‘The CCTV camera surly represents us watching the world crumble around us.’

And Chris Barcroft offered his insight and commented: ‘The camera is looking at the falling rocks, rather than what’s causing them to fall.

Goats are adapted to climbing on narrow ledges, so it isn’t in danger, but the camera’s view doesn’t give the full picture.

‘So I’d guess that it’s referencing the need to understand that news needs context before forming an opinion.’

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