Two Elephants
Banksy · Edith Terrace, Chelsea, London, UK · 2024
Photo: as published on Street Art Utopia. Artwork: Banksy.
Two elephants reach toward each other across bricked-up windows on a Chelsea house. Banksy claimed the image in August 2024, the day after a goat appeared near Kew Bridge. When vandals painted white stripes over one trunk, Kensington and Chelsea Council removed them and applied an anti-graffiti solution. Source Source Source Checked
Seen February 2025: Londonist’s map of every Banksy in London, with statuses as of February 2025, lists the elephants as still there and repaired after one was defaced with stripes, the newest dated report we found. Source Reported
💡 4 things to know
- Windows become frames
Bristol247 describes the silhouettes of two elephants’ heads on the bricked-up windows, trunks reaching toward each other. Source Source Checked - A Chelsea corner
The house is on Edith Terrace in Chelsea. Bristol247 and the Evening Standard put it on the corner with Gunter Grove; Wikipedia gives the corner as Edith Grove. Source Source Source Conflicting - The second animal
The elephants followed a goat perched on a wall near Kew Bridge in Richmond, revealed the day before, in Banksy’s August 2024 London animal series. Source Source Checked - Cleaned and protected
After white stripes were painted over one trunk, Kensington and Chelsea Council removed them and applied an anti-graffiti solution. Source Source Checked
📍 Where it is
On the side of a house on Edith Terrace in Chelsea, London, United Kingdom. Source Source Source Checked Which corner is Conflicting: Gunter Grove in Bristol247 and the Evening Standard, Edith Grove in Wikipedia. Conflicting
🗓️ Sightings
- 20246 Aug
Revealed and claimed by Banksy · Bristol247
- 20246 Aug
Located at Edith Terrace and Gunter Grove · Evening Standard via Yahoo
- 202424 Sep
Cleaned and treated with anti-graffiti solution after vandalism · ITV
- 2025Feb
Listed as still there and repaired · Londonist
Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.
🗞️ In the sources
Banksy elephant artwork restored and protected after being vandalised in Chelsea
“with white stripes painted over the outstretched trunk of one of the elephants”
One trunk had been painted over with white stripes.
“The second artwork is understood to be on the side of a house on the corner of Edith Terrace and Gunter Grove in Chelsea.”
Reports the Chelsea location of the second work in Banksy’s August 2024 London animal series.
“Elephants (Edith Terrace, Chelsea): still there, one was defaced with stripes, but has been repaired.”
Londonist’s map of every Banksy in London lists the elephants as still in place.
✅ The facts
- Corner
- Gunter Grove (Bristol247, Evening Standard); Edith Grove (Wikipedia) Source Source Source Conflicting
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All sources & image credits
- bristol247.com: Another new Banksy appears: Two elephants (6 August 2024)
- uk.news.yahoo.com (Evening Standard): Banksy unveils new elephant street artwork in London day after goat piece appeared on Richmond wall (6 August 2024)
- itv.com: Banksy elephant artwork restored and protected after being vandalised in Chelsea (24 September 2024)
- londonist.com: Every Banksy In London Mapped (statuses as of February 2025)
- en.wikipedia.org: Banksy’s London animal series
- Hero image: as published on Street Art Utopia (SAU media #54961; WAU media #10914); share image #10955. Artwork by Banksy.
Last checked: 8 November 2026. How we verify art