Rats are ever-present in Banksy works, most recently on the London Underground, where rats are stencilled onto the walls of the train, some were parachuting with face masks, others sneezing and more. Banksy may of got his love of rats from the French stencil artist 'Blek Le Rat', who stencilled rats in Paris when Banksy was a child, and Banksy revived the use of rats two decades after 'Blek le Rat'.

Banksy started as a freehand graffiti artist 1992/1994 as one of Bristols DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ), with Kato and Tes. He was inspired by local artists and his work was part of the larger Bristol underground scene. From the start he used stencils as elements of his freehand pieces, too. By 2000 he had turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a piece. He claims he changed to stencilling whilst he was hiding from the police under a train carriage, when he noticed the stencilled serial number and by employing this technique, he soon became more widely noticed for his art around Bristol and London.

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