Banksy Margate Valentine's Day artwork to move to Dreamland

A portion by the creator Banksy that appeared successful Margate, Kent, connected Valentine's Day is to beryllium moved to the town's Dreamland taxable park.

The mural, called "Valentine's Day Mascara", shows a 1950s housewife with a swollen oculus and missing tooth, seemingly shutting a antheral successful a freezer.

The real-life freezer was removed and returned doubly successful the days pursuing the mural's appearance.

Dreamland said it had present been asked to supply a imperishable location for the piece.

The freezer, an integral portion of the work, was removed by Thanet District Council connected the time the enactment appeared painted connected the broadside of a house, past returned aboriginal successful the time aft it had been made safe.

It was removed again by London-based Red Eight Galleries, which said it wanted to "ensure the integrity" of the mural.

Eddie Kemsley, CEO of Dreamland Margate, said: "The accomplishment of Banksy's latest artwork successful Margate has caused a existent stir. Everyone successful the municipality is truly excited that helium has chosen Margate arsenic the determination for his latest work, and the information that helium is highlighting specified an important contented lone makes it much important.

"Imagine our astonishment erstwhile we got a telephone asking if we would beryllium capable to big the artwork. We jumped astatine the accidental to assistance guarantee that the portion could stay accessible and wrong the community.

"All the details are inactive being worked out, but we volition enactment intimately with the squad of qualified experts to find a suitable location, wherever the nationalist tin bask this superb caller summation to the Margate creation scene."

She added: "We recognize the existent proprietor of the artwork is keen to rise wealth to assistance the section charity, Oasis, which supports those that person been affected by home abuse.

"We volition assistance the proprietor of the artwork and Red Eight Gallery connected the logistics of how, erstwhile and wherever the portion volition beryllium moved and erstwhile everything has been finalised, further details volition beryllium announced."

Dreamland said the archetypal woody was for it to show the mural for 12 months, but the parkland hoped for an extension.

It is aimed to person the mural successful spot by April.