BANKSY // Rat with Roller on Spot Painting, 2009

  • Banksy’s 2009 Rat with Roller mocks art world by defacing Damien Hirst spot painting.

    Banksy, Rat with Roller on Spot Painting, 2009.

    Original work missing. Medium and dimensions unknown.

    © Banksy.

    In Roller Rat on Spot Painting, Banksy cheekily vandalises one of contemporary art’s most recognisable signatures: Damien Hirst’s “Spot Paintings”. The canvas begins with the familiar grid of brightly coloured circles, but the scene is swiftly interrupted by one of Banksy’s iconic rats. Holding a paint roller and a dripping can of grey paint, the rodent has begun erasing the polka dots, coating the carefully ordered surface in smears of dull neutrality.
     
    With its blend of parody and protest, the piece functions as both homage and sabotage. Banksy critiques the commodification of conceptual art and the performative nature of artistic value, while simultaneously inserting himself into the lineage of British art dialogue. It’s a commentary on authorship, erasure, and hierarchy - who gets to make art, who profits from it, and who decides what counts. 
     
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  • “All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”

    – Banksy

    In Roller Rat on Spot Painting, Banksy cheekily vandalises one of contemporary art’s most recognisable signatures: Damien Hirst’s “Spot Paintings”. The canvas begins with the familiar grid of brightly coloured circles, but the scene is swiftly interrupted by one of Banksy’s iconic rats. Holding a paint roller and a dripping can of grey paint, the rodent has begun erasing the polka dots, coating the carefully ordered surface in smears of dull neutrality.
     
    With its blend of parody and protest, the piece functions as both homage and sabotage. Banksy critiques the commodification of conceptual art and the performative nature of artistic value, while simultaneously inserting himself into the lineage of British art dialogue. It’s a commentary on authorship, erasure, and hierarchy - who gets to make art, who profits from it, and who decides what counts. 
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