The Passion for Freedom exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London was intended to highlight the work of "courageous artists" fighting censorship and highlighting oppression around the world.

But one group of works, showing animals from the Sylvanian Families range of toys being menaced by other figurines dressed in the clothes of Isil fighters, has been removed from the show on the advice of the police.

Credit: Mimsy

'MICE-IS', a collection of seven tableaux by an artist known as Mimsy, was selected to appear in the six-day exhibition, which closes today.

Speaking to The Telegraph in March, Mimsy explained that she had decided to go under a pseudonym when presenting her work to "avoid any possibility of beheading".

Credit: Mimsy

Organisers at the Mall Galleries were contacted by Westminster Police before the show opened on September 21, and were told that the inclusion of the work would lead to extra policing costs which would be passed on to the artist or gallery.

Having been presented with a figure of some £36,000 for security, the gallery's board met and decided to remove the work from the exhibition.

Credit: Mimsy

Mimsy said that she was angered that the work had not been shown. “I love my freedom,” she told the Guardian. “I’m aware of the very real threat to that freedom from Islamic fascism and I’m not going to pander to them or justify it like many people on the left are doing.”

Other works in the show include a life-sized painting of a woman in a hijab covered in chains by Maryam Deyhim and an eight-foot-long sculpture, The Great Wall of Vagina, featuring casts of the genitals of 400 women. It was organised by the Passion for Freedom collective, which formed seven years ago to "[promote] and [protect] human rights using the means of aesthetic expression".

Read more about the exhibition at the Mall Galleries' website