- By Jess Warren & Anna O’Neill
- BBC Information
Picture supply, Matt McKenna
The mural has been coated with plastic and surrounded by wood boards
A Banksy mural in north London has been coated with plastic and surrounded by wood boards.
The mural options swathes of inexperienced paint on a residential constructing behind a close-by tree to offer the looks of leaves.
Picket boards have been put up towards a steel fence
Beforehand, Islington Council stated it was putting in CCTV cameras and different methods to guard the work.
The authority added it needed the piece “to remain”.
A spokesperson stated the council was discussing “future options” with the home-owner “to allow everybody to benefit from the art work”.
The BBC has contacted the council for touch upon the plastic masking and wood boards.
The art work was splattered with white paint quickly after it appeared in Finsbury Park
The mural, on Hornsey Street in Finsbury Park, additionally contains a stencil of an individual holding a stress hose.
The vivid paint color matched that utilized by Islington Council for avenue indicators within the space.
Mary Dickenson, who lives regionally, instructed BBC London: “When it first went up it was good. Somebody did attempt to destroy it, they usually’ve blocked every part off now, so you’ll be able to’t actually see something.”
Güley Polat, who travelled to see the mural from Germany, arrived to see the plastic masking and boards.
She stated: “It’s totally unhappy. What I see is a catastrophe. I do not prefer it.
“It looks as if we’re in jail. I feel Banksy does not need to have his avenue artwork in a jail.”
These chargeable for the white paint haven’t been recognized.
