Buy Banksy Radar Rat Signed Print

Rats are one of Banksy’s most common motifs and appear across a variety of works including Love Rat, Gangsta Rat and the Placard Rat series. Synonymous with the artist, they occur both in studio and street works. One of the most desirable of all of the rat works, Radar Rat comes in a small edition size of 75 hand-finished and signed by the artist. Also known as “Sonic Rat” the print was originally released at Banksy’s Santa’s Ghetto pop-up by Pictures on Walls. 
Radar Rat has appeared in various guises including near to our gallery in Chelsea, on the cover of Dirty Funker’s “Future” album and as a canvas piece.
In his 2005 autobiographical book Wall and Piece, which features over 30 different representations of rats from the artist’s early career Banksy writes, “[Rats] exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilisations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.” Could this be the artist commenting on himself through the use of rats? His works jarring and disrupting our world through their cryptic and often provocative messages? In the work, we see a rat standing on its hind legs wearing headphones and a recording device in one hand and a radar in the other with a red radio wave spiral in the background. The surveillance state, recording, monitoring and spying on our every move, adds a sinister message that is coated in typical Banksy humour. Chased and hounded by the authorities, is Banksy meta-spying on himself? A provocative game of cat and mouse? Catch him if you can.

Animals are recurring motifs that feature throughout Banksy’s oeuvre. Banksy often uses animals as a vehicle for commentary on both society and the place of humans, other popular examples include Love Rat, Barcode and HMV. Explore Banksy prints for sale.

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