![]() ![]() The popularity of the rat as a Street Art symbol began with the rise of Blek le Rat - a French stencil artist who initiated the urban art movement in France during the late '70s. ![]() The work can be read as a comment on the ever-increasing presence of surveillance equipment in major cities, such as London. ![]() Stencilled in signature Banksy style, the Radar Rat appears to be listening intently to the world around him. In 2008, the image appeared on the cover of Dirty Funker’s ‘ Future’ album. Originally known as ‘Sonic Rat’, the work was first released in 2004 by Banksy’s print publisher Pictures on Walls (POW), at the artist’s Santa’s Ghetto pop-up shop 2 years earlier, in 2002, Radar Rat had appeared on several walls around London. Banksy's Radar Rat, building on the artist's recurrent rat motif, portrays a rat resting on its hind legs, wearing headphones and clutching a tape recorder. ![]()
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