![]() He even spray painted a rat hanging from the carriage walls, conveniently holding a bottle of hand sanitiser right next to his name on the driver’s door of the train.Īt the end of the video, the words “I get lockdown” appear on the side of a station wall before the train door’s close to reveal the “but I get up again” phrase, with two rats reaching out to each other, in reference to English rock band Chubawumba’s 1997 hit “Tubthumping”. ![]() Once on the train, Banksy immediately got to work by spray-painting a stencil of his famed rats sneezing onto the walls of the train carriage, revealing that his spray-cleaning bottle was actually filled with paint and not a disinfectant.Īfter having a short word with a fellow passenger, presumably to ask him to move to another part of the train, he then spray paints more of his trademark rats - this time with one using a mask as a parachute and another struggling to figure out how to put one on. TFL workers wear the exact same thing when tasked with deep cleaning and sanitising train carriages during the Covid-19 pandemic - as Banksy proved with a short excerpt at the beginning of the video. This time, the anonymous graffiti artist entered the ongoing mask debate in the country as he took to the world famous London tube with his newest playful artworkĬaptioned “If you don’t mask-you don’t get”, Banksy uploaded the making-of video of his Covid-19 inspired artwork onto his official Instagram page yesterday.ĭonned in a white boiler suit, orange vest, goggles, gloves, a protective mask and a spray-cleaning bottle, the enigmatic artist disguised himself as a Transport for London (TFL) worker, before jumping on the train at the Baker Street station in Westminster, London. LONDON, United Kingdom - United Kingdom street artist Banksy is up to his old tricks again. Xavier Prou, better known under the pseudonym Blek le Rat, is a pioneering French street artist.
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