GANGSTA RAT (GREEN)

2004

Edition: Numbered from the edition of 150 signed. Total 500 (150 signed + 350 unsigned).

Medium: Screenprint

Size: 50 x 35 cm (19 5/8 x 13 3/4 in)

Year: 2004

Availability: Sold

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About This Work

Banksy’s **GANGSTA RAT (GREEN)** distils the artist’s street-born wit into a sharply composed stencil image whose immediacy is inseparable from its craft. Executed with crisp, layered sprays and a limited palette punctuated by vivid green, the work leverages high-contrast contours to give the rat—a recurring Banksy surrogate—an assertive, almost emblematic presence. The figure’s cartoon clarity collides with the grit of urban iconography, turning a maligned scavenger into a stylish anti-hero and a proxy for the overlooked communities that animate the city’s margins. Conceptually, the piece encapsulates Banksy’s enduring critique of power, policing, and status: the rat survives, adapts, and proliferates, undermining hierarchies through sheer persistence. Visually punchy and culturally resonant, it stands as an incisive statement on visibility, resistance, and modern mythmaking. Green colorway

About the Artist

Perhaps the most famous figure in street art working today, Banksy is known for urban interventions that demonstrate irreverent wit and a biting political edge. Enhancing his mystique by maintaining an anonymous identity, the artist has modified street signs, illegally printed his own currency, and ...

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