A new artwork believed to have been created by the artist Banksy has appeared on a wall in Fitzrovia, central London during Easter Monday. The work in blood red paint features the stencilled rat which has appeared in many of his creations.
The rat has appeared in a number of Banksy works.
The red paint which has been slapped on quickly contains runs, and drips onto the pavement near the wall and was still soft this afternoon when Fitzrovia News contributors went to examine it.
A stencilled rat appears to stand on a ledge, and has red paint on one of its paws after having just signed the work with a paw print.
A local security guard confirmed it had arrived between midnight and sometime in the early hours of Monday morning. The artwork was already getting the attention of passers by and several groups of people had already been to photograph it.
The corner of Clipstone and Cleveland Streets in Fitzrovia.
The artwork is on a wall on the corner of Clipstone Street and Cleveland Street at the end of a row of shops and next to the BT Tower.
This is the second large work by Banksy to have appeared in Fitzrovia and in the part of the neighbourhood under the authority of Westminster City Council. A previous artwork — One Nation Under CCTV — was removed at the insistence of the Council after it decided it that it shouldn’t have been created without planning permission.
