Coronavirus: Banksy’s Girl With A Pierced Eardrum gets a COVID-19 face mask
Written by News on 23/04/2020
A Banksy mural in his home city of Bristol has been updated to reference the COVID-19 pandemic.
The graffiti artist’s Girl With A Pierced Eardrum in Hanover Place now features a surgical face mask, similar to those NHS staff are wearing while treating patients with coronavirus.
A parody of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring, Banksy‘s artwork appeared in the street near Albion Docks in 2014, and replaces the jewellery featured in the original painting with a security alarm.
It is not known if the anonymous artist himself added the face mask; so far, the image does not appear on his official Instagram page.
His last post gave a rare insight into his personal life after he created some home art during lockdown earlier this month.
It featured rats in his bathroom and a caption that read: “My wife hates it when I work from home.”
The five images depict nine rodents climbing on to shelves, swinging from towel hooks, hanging from a light pull, unravelling a toilet roll and marking out the number of days spent inside during the strict measures.
The artist, whose identity has been rumoured to be several different people throughout the years but never confirmed, first rose to fame for his graffiti work in the 1990s.
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His work is often political and contains messages portraying his thoughts on current events.
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