Themepark to host mural after freezer forming part of work was twice removed from original location in Margate

An artwork by Banksy that has been dismantled numerous times since it appeared in Margate this week will be permanently relocated to the town’s Dreamland theme park.

The mural, titled Valentine’s Day Mascara, appears to be on the theme of domestic abuse and fighting violence against women. It depicts a caricature of a 1950s housewife, wearing a blue pinny and yellow washing-up gloves, with a swollen eye and a missing tooth, who is seen pushing her male partner into a chest freezer.

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