Philadelphia based artist Shawn Thornton has seen it all, or at least a lot more than most. Struggling with mental illness for a number of years and continuing to create artwork throughout, he was finally diagnosed with cancer affecting his pineal gland in 2006, helping him at last to understand his unique perspective and condition. […]
Artist Phil America has worked and lived around the world, from documenting the transnational hardcore of the graffiti subculture, to living in the largest slums of Bangkok, and, most recently, the tent city ‘anti-dream’ of his homeland. Through his documentary and performance based work Phil America communicates and explores notions of freedom and identity, from […]
EDITION FIFTY ART PRINT SERIES LAUNCHES WITH MR JAGO Edition Fifty is a brand-new online art store selling exclusive limited-edition prints from some of the world’s most recognisable and interesting artists, but with a twist. Each fortnight, a new print by a different artist will be made available on the site in a limited run […]
The Bloop Interactive Arts Festival returns to Ibiza this July for another month of graffiti and music oriented events. The free festival enables visual artists from all over the world to work in Ibiza’s unique environment. Having previously welcomed an array of artists and cultural commentators, including New York aficionado Martha Cooper, this year looks […]
City of Paranoia 2 is the upcoming sequel from an anonymous group, granting a rare and explicit insight into the world of hardcore illegal graffiti in London. The people behind the original City of Paranoia are highly secretive, for obvious reasons. With the British Transport Police and Crown Prosecution Service pushing for tougher sentences, […]
Diana Buraka sites herself as ‘photographer tattooist and adventurist’. Born in Soviet Union Latvia in 1990, she then grew up in Germany before later living in Milan and studying communication design in Dusseldorf and Barcelona. Drawing from the age of 13, she began turning her scribblings into some pretty unique tattoos in 2013. Using simple lines, […]
From 27 October to 11 November, East London’s High Roller Society will be exhibiting the first-ever show in the capital from Columbian artist Stinkfish. Entitled ‘Espina’, which is Spanish for ‘thorns’, the exhibition will present the abstract street-level portraiture through which the Columbian has made his name. A full-time street artist, Stinkfish travels the world […]
British artist David Walker paints portraits. With a difference. Exclusively employing spray paint and never using brushes, Walker’s deeply layered style is as arresting as it is beautiful. Offsetting the delicate lines of his female subjects with frantic scrawls and colour-clashing abstractions, Walker’s artworks energetically leap out from the walls or canvases they adorn. Regularly […]
You don’t need to have watched that recent cringe-inducing episode of The Apprentice to know that street art is big news these days – and nowhere more so than in the dishevelled, graff-daubed streets of Trap’s home city of Bristol. Among the first places outside of New York to take the discipline of graffiti to […]
