Via Instagram @banksyArt & PhotographyNewsBanksy hits the London Underground to paint new coronavirus-themed artworksThe elusive artist has shared a video of himself painting a variety of rats on the capital’s transport serviceShareLink copied ✔️July 14, 2020Art & PhotographyNewsTextBrit Dawson Banksy is back with more mischievous rats – this time, they’ve journeyed from his bathroom to the London Underground. The elusive artist has shared a video of himself leaving coronavirus-themed artworks on the capital’s transport system. Dressed head-to-toe in protective gear – simultaneously protecting him from COVID-19 and hiding his identity – Banksy can be seen spray painting among mask-cladded commuters. His pieces include a rat sneezing a blue liquid across the carriage wall, two more rats using masks as parachutes, and another doing its own graffiti (which says “Banksy”) while ‘hanging’ from the tube rails. Banksy also left two notes, which read, “I get lockdown” and “But I get up again” – meant to be sung to the tune of Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping”. The artist shared the video on his Instagram with the caption, “If you don’t mask – you don’t get”. The pieces mark some of his first public artworks since he unveiled a new mural in Bristol for Valentine’s Day. Since then, Banksy has shared a handful of reactive works on his Instagram, including an anti-racism piece dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement, an NHS artwork, which was hung in a Southampton hospital, and the aforementioned rats wreaking havoc in his home. Watch Banksy’s new video below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREGuen Fiore’s tender portraits of girls in the flux of adolescenceCowboys! Eagles! Death! Georg Baselitz’s prints tell a shocking life storyVanmoofDJ Fuckoff’s guide to living, creating and belonging in BerlinMarina Abramović: ‘Everything new is always criticised’In pictures: Intimate encounters with strangers in US suburbiaThe dA-Zed guide to David WojnarowiczEnemy of the Sun confronts a Palestinian landscape under threatThis vibrant new show captures the dynamism of the male form Ray-Ban MetaWin pre-launch tickets to Paradigm Shift at 180 Studios This exhibition captures the hope and horror of life in GazaThe most loved photo stories from September 2025Dazed Club Spotlight: September 2025