Hunt on for ‘Ranksy’ graffiti artist who sprayed ‘I farted in yoga’ on London wall

Banksy hasn’t been this candid in years. A council is on the hunt for a graffiti artist caught on camera writing ‘I farted in yoga’ on a west London building site.

The mystery artist dressed in shorts and a white t-shirt moves quickly to write the message with a backwards E on hoardings in Shepherds Bush.

In the video taken from council CCTV, the man checks for local enforcement before cracking on with his major contribution to society.

Schoolkids are seen to stop and laugh as they see what he is spraying on the grey panels.

He completes it with an impressive one-line cartoon figure and a copyright symbol.

The man has time for a quick cigarette after completing his piece, which is also caught on camera.

Hammersmith and Fulham council published an appeal urging anyone who knows the tagger to come forward.

They said: ‘Do you recognise this man?

‘He vandalised hoardings in Uxbridge Road – Shepherds Bush – on Saturday 2 May 2026.

‘Council officers have removed the graffiti.’

Commenters on the post were less than helpful in debating whether it was in fact vandalism or deserving of being hung in the Louvre.

One wrote: ‘Omg. The man, the myth, the legend. I’ve seen that tag absolutely everywhere in London.’

Another opined: ‘Maybe check all the yoga classes in the area and check who farted?’

‘This graffiti is all over East London. Nice to see he’s spread his wings’, another said.

While we wait for an official confirmation as to who the artist is, why not take a look at some of Banksy’s famous London works? If you’re looking to find them, Metro has outlined where to spot them below.

Where is Banksy’s London graffiti?

Centre Point at Tottenham Court Road

In late December 2025, two identical Banksy artwork pieces cropped up in London, featuring two children lying down in winter clothing and pointing up at the sky.

The two murals appears on side of an abandoned building in Queen’s Mews, Bayswater in West London and beside the Centre Point building on the intersection of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street.

While the Centre Point mural is still around now, the Bayswater graffiti was boarded up by workmen within a few short hours.

Royal Courts of Justice

In September 2025, a new Banksy artwork appeared outside the High Court in London, depicting a judge wielding a gavel and attacking an unarmed person on the floor who held a sign covered in blood.

The elusive graffiti artist confirmed the artwork as his on his Instagram with a caption ‘Royal Courts of Justice, London’, but the mural was quickly boarded up.

Within a day, the mural was scrubbed off the walls and the police had launched an investigation into criminal damage.

Animal art trail

Between August 5 and 13, 2024, nine animal-themed Banksy artworks appeared throughout London.

Some were removed, most lawfully, but one, a howling wolf on a satellite dish was stolen. A few, however, remain, including graffiti artwork of two pelicans eating fish.

They appeared on the side of the fish and chip shop Bonner’s Fish Bar in Northcote Road, Walthamstow. The artwork was been covered with clear Perspex to protect it.

The above two elephant silhouettes with their trunks stretched out towards each other in Edith Grove, Chelsea, were also part of the animal series.

One of the elephants was defaced with white stripes, but the local council removed the stripes and covered the work with a special paint to protect it.

Other animal-themed pieces that appeared around the same time include three swinging monkeys below a London Overground line in Brick Lane, east London that were removed in February 2025.

Also removed was the artwork of a goat precariously balancing on a pillar as rocks fall below it in Kew Green in West London, the graffiti of a tiger stretching on a dilapidated billboard in Cricklewood in northwest London, the London police box whose windows were decorated with a school of piranhas at Ludgate Hill and the artwork of a gorilla pulling up a shutter at London Zoo was removed for ‘safekeeping’.