Banksy New Coronavirus inspired artwork appears on Internet video
Banksy has returned to the London Underground with a piece encouraging people to wear a face mask.
Banksy has disguised himself as a tube cleaner to make graffiti of a bustling train as it was named in a piece through central London: 'If you don't mask - you don't get' , It was revealed today.
A video posted on his Instagram page shows a man, believed to be the enigmatic artist, disguised as a professional cleaner.
He can been seen ordering passengers away as he gets to work, stencilling rats around the inside of a carriage.The artist's name is also doubled across the driver's door of a train.
The work - called If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get, features a number of rats in pandemic-inspired poses and wearing face masks. Banksy is filmed entering a Tube station and getting on a train with his paint and stencils. At one point he ushers commuters away as he spray-paints the train as it travelled between Baker Street and Euston in broad daylight.
One rodent stencilled on the Circle Line train appears to be sneezing, while another is shown spraying anti-bacterial gel.
At the end of the video, the words "I get lockdown" appear on the side of a station wall, followed by "but I get up again" as the train's doors close, while Chumbawamba's 1997 song Tubthumping plays.All users of public transport in London must wear a face mask. His latest work makes it clear that he believes anyone not wearing a mask is risking the spread of coronavirus in a film that ends with the message: 'I get locked down - but I get up again' - a play on words on the Chumbawamba hit that plays at the end.
The star, who released a video of him spraying the train on Instagram this afternoon, never identified himself, but is believed to be Bristol's former public schoolboy Robin Gunningham.
Early on in his career Banksy, originally from Bristol, often spray painted rats and monkeys on to Tube trains.
The street artist often uses rats and monkeys in his work, and spray-painted both on Tube trains early in his career.
The piece, named 'If you don’t mask - you don’t get', is encouraging Britons to wear masks to halt the spread of Covid-19
The release of the artwork is important today as it is said that Boris Johnson revealed that face masks would be mandatory in limited places such as shops and faces, and London Mayor Sadiq Khan admitted one in ten that they still do not wear masks 50 people have been fined.
