Couple To Pay $250,000 To Remove Banksy Mural From Their Home

A couple living in Suffolk is now facing hundreds of dollars in clean-up costs after the secretive and elusive street artist Banksy decided to paint the side of their home with a 20-foot seagull. While the giant waterfowl, painted in 2021, was beautiful, the homeowners, Garry, and Gokean Coutts, have been disturbed and inconvenienced by it. 

Strangers have been flocking to their house since the mural was placed there. Some hooligans are trying to vandalize the artwork, while thieves are trying to chip off sections to sell on Facebook. The amount of disturbance caused the couple to pay for a security guard, and now they have to decide between paying $50,000 a year for the protection and preservation of the artwork or the full removal, which approximately cost a quarter of a million dollars.  “At first it was obviously incredible but as things have gone on it has become extremely stressful,” Mr. Coutts shared with the New York Times. “ I’m not sure Banksy realises the unintended consequences on homeowners. If we could turn back the clock, we would.”

The couple shared that they would have to remove the mural. They hope to sell the work to offset the $250,000 removal costs. “We are just normal people,” Mr. Coutts told the Sun, “so we’d like to sell it and make something back on it.”

Image via The Sun

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