A new artwork by Banksy shows two people lying down on the street looking up at a London skyscraper. 

The work shows a child in a beanie hat and Wellingtons lying on the floor next to another person in a bobble hat who points up to the building and sky above.

It appeared today beneath the Centre Point building near Tottenham Court Road in central London.

The same artwork has also appeared on the side of a building a few miles away in Queen’s Mews in Bayswater.

In September, a Banksy mural showing a protester on the floor holding a blood-spattered placard while a judge hit him with a gavel appeared on the front of the Royal Courts of Justice building.

It was swiftly covered up by officials, with security guards seen patrolling in front of a screen concealing the artwork. 

The artwork followed almost 900 people being arrested in central London at a demonstration supporting banned group Palestine Action, in what was thought to be Britain’s biggest ever mass arrest.

A new artwork by Banksy shows two people lying down on the street looking up at the Centre Point building near Tottenham Court Road

The work shows a child in a beanie hat and Wellingtons lying on the floor next to another person in a bobble hat who points up to the building and sky above

Scotland Yard at the time condemned what police called the ‘intolerable’ abuse of its officers suffered during the rally in Parliament Square, in Westminster, attended by an estimated 1,500 people.

Other Banksy murals which have recently appeared include one which internet sleuths pinpointed in May this year as being in the French city of Marseille. 

The artwork included the words ‘I want you to be what you saw in me’ and in a second photo two people could be seen walking with their dogs past it. 

A false shadow was also drawn on the pavement from a nearby bollard to give the illusion the lighthouse is a silhouette of it.

His other murals in London have included nine animal-themed pictures that appeared in nine different locations across the capital in August last year.

His final piece depicted a gorilla lifting the shutters of London Zoo to release a sea lion and birds, while other wildlife appear to look out from the inside. 

It came after stencils of a goat, elephants, monkeys, a wolf, pelicans, a cat, piranhas and a rhinoceros were drawn across the city.

One of Banksy’s most striking moments was in 2003 when he disguised himself as a pensioner and installed a piece in a vacant spot in the Tate Britain in London.

His artwork Girl With Balloon self-destructed in a Sotheby’s London saleroom when descending into a shredder in 2018.  

Banksy, who began his iconic street art more than 25 years ago, has sold his works for hundreds of thousands of pounds. 

His identity has been shrouded in secrecy until The Mail on Sunday launched an investigation in 2008, naming Robin Gunningham as the Bristol artist. His identity nevertheless remains unconfirmed.