It would seem many of us are navigating the ups and downs of working from home at the moment — and street artist Banksy is no exception.

The elusive artist has followed official advice to stay at home during the coronavirus crisis by creating a new artwork in his bathroom that shows his trademark stencilled rats running amok around the sink and toilet.

He posted photos of the work on his Instagram account this week, along with the comment: "My wife hates it when I work from home."

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The new work, like many things during the United Kingdom's lockdown, can only be experienced online.

It shows stir-crazy rats squeezing a tube of toothpaste, hanging off the light switch, unravelling toilet rolls and urinating on the toilet seat.

Banksy, whose identity remains a secret, uses his Instagram page to authenticate murals after they are painted in public locations, most recently in the English cities of Bristol and Birmingham.

His work has also appeared at sites including Israel's barrier at the West Bank and at Disneyland, where he painted a life-size figure of a Guantanamo Bay detainee.

Once a small-time graffiti artist from Bristol, Banksy's work has become hugely valuable.

His painting of chimps sitting in Britain's parliament sold for nearly 9.9 million pounds ($19.4 million) in October, a record price at auction for his work.

He garnered headlines the year prior when his painting, Girl With Balloon, shred itself into pieces at the moment it sold for more than 1 million pounds ($2 million) at a London auction.

The artwork had fetched more than three times its pre-sale estimate.

Reuters