# @hyperallergic on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DSnmkL2gbbi
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38247179-hyperallergic-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-23T20:07:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

## Caption

Banksy has struck again, revealing a new mural on a quiet cobblestoned street in Bayswater, London, just days before Christmas. Depicting two bundled-up kids lying down and stargazing, the work could be a reference to the estimated 102,000 unhoused children residing in temporary accommodations in the city.

Though the anonymous artist claimed responsibility in an Instagram post for the street art along Queen’s Mews in Bayswater, the same motif also appeared on a concrete divider outside London’s Centre Point tower. Banksy has not indicated that he is responsible for this identical work; however, its location is significant. Nicknamed the “North Star,” the tower was constructed in the 1960s as an office building, but stood empty for nearly a decade after its completion. In 1969, Reverend Ken Leech, an Anglican socialist minister who worked with youths struggling with homelessness and addiction, opened the basement of the nearby St. Anne’s Church as a temporary shelter, naming it Centrepoint after the tower, which he regarded as an “affront to the homeless.”

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Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images

#Banksy #StreetArt #London #Bayswater

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london, bayswater, streetart, banksy

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