Blek le Rat | Paraphernalia

Blek le Rat (b. 1951) — The Street Artist’s Paraphernalia

Banksy has credited Blek le Rat directly, observing that “every time I think I’ve painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well, only twenty years earlier.” The Street Artist’s Paraphernalia is Blek’s own nod to that legacy: a self-referential image of his tools of trade, depicted through the same rat motif that built the international stencil movement.

The rat is shown wearing a flat cap and sunglasses, spray can in paw, while a second rat — rendered in red — darts away behind him, as much self-portrait as street icon. Produced as a one-colour hand-pulled screenprint on 300gsm Arches paper in 2016, in an edition of 300.

Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and Camberley.

One-colour hand-pulled screenprint on 300gsm Arches paper
31 × 23 cm (sheet); 40 × 32 cm (framed)
Signed by the artist
Edition of 300
Certificate of Authenticity