BANKSY // Get Out While you Can, 2004

  • Banksy’s 2004 Get Out While You Can rat graffiti, early anti-establishment street artwork.

    Banksy, Get Out While You Can, 2004.

    Screen-print in colours on wove paper, 50 × 35 cm.
    © Banksy.

     

    Part of Banksy’s Placard Rats trilogy - alongside Welcome to Hell and Because I’m Worthless - Get Out While You Can features one of the artist’s iconic rats holding a protest-style placard bearing the work’s title in vivid red or pink.
     
    The series takes inspiration from George Marshall’s book Get Out While You Can, a guide to escaping the “rat race” of modern working life. Banksy’s rat stands upright like a miniature activist, wearing a peace sign necklace beneath a sign that drips like fresh blood. The contrast between pacifist symbolism and the aggressive message is classic Banksy - a warning, a protest, and a provocation in one.
     
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  • “If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask.”

    – Banksy

    Part of Banksy’s Placard Rats trilogy – alongside Welcome to Hell and Because I’m Worthless – Get Out While You Can depicts one of the artist’s signature rats holding a protest-style placard scrawled with the work’s title in vivid red or pink. Inspired by George Marshall’s book Get Out While You Can, a guide to escaping the “rat race,” Banksy transforms the rodent into a miniature activist, complete with a peace sign necklace. The contrast between the pacifist symbol and the urgent, almost violent message captures Banksy’s talent for fusing humour with critique.
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