Artists
FAILE is the Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Patrick McNeil (b. 1975, Edmonton, CA) and Patrick Miller (b. 1976, Minneapolis, MN). Since its inception in 1999, FAILE has attained global recognition for their pioneering use of wheatpasting and stenciling in the increasingly established arena of street art, and for their explorations of duality through a fragmented style of appropriation and collage. During this time, FAILE adapted its signature mass culture-driven iconography to a wide array of media, from wooden boxes and window pallets to more traditional canvas, pr
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The London Police are Bob Gibson and Chaz Barrison, who were born in Chelmsford, England in the 1970's. They started in 1998 when big English geezers headed to Amsterdam to rejuvenate the visually disappointing streets of the drug capital of the world. The motive was to combine traveling and making street art to create an amazing way of life not seen since the days of King Solomon. From 2002 onward TLP started sending missionaries into all corners of the globe. Known for their iconic LADS characters and precision marking TLP have recently celebrated 10 strong years in the
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Shepard Fairey is the man behind OBEY GIANT, the graphics that have changed the way people see art and the urban landscape. What started with an absurd sticker he created in 1989 while studying at the Rhode Island School of Design has since evolved into a worldwide street art campaign, as well as an acclaimed body of fine art.
The OBEY GIANT campaign is rooted in the DIY counterculture of punk rock and skateboarding, but it has also taken cues from popular culture, commercial marketing and political messaging. Fairey steeps his ideology and iconography in the self-empowerment
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D*Face is one of the most prolific contemporary urban artists of his generation. Working with a variety of mediums and techniques, he uses a family of dysfunctional characters to satirise and hold to ransom all that falls into their grasp – a welcome jolt of subversion in today’s media-saturated environment.
His aim is to encourage the public not just to 'see', but to look at what surrounds them and their lives, reflecting our increasingly bizarre fascination for with celebrity, fame, consumerism and materialism, re-thinking, reworking and subverting imagery dr
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Logan Hicks is a New York-based stencil artist whose work explores the dynamics of the urban environment. Originally a screenprinter, Logan's work has gained notoriety due to his ability to capture the sometimes mundane cycle of city life in a haunting, yet refined way with his hand-sprayed stencils.
Stenciling started as a substitution for screenprinting, but quickly morphed into Logan's medium of choice. A perfect union was conceived by spraypainting stencils his subjects: the dirty and gritty nature of the spraypaint thoroughly depicted the decay of the city while the mute
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Born 1974 in the Parisian region, Loïc Le Floch literally caught the graffiti virus at the end of the 80s. Since then, he strives to surround himself with the universe of the urban by manifesting the spirit in his works. He defends authentic graffiti art, which is realized in the exterior in the open spaces and on the street.
In the course of his artistic manœuver, he collaborated with internationally well-known artists such as Quik, Ket, Dize, Rap and Trane. Since a few years back, he embarked on a new medium: the canvas. His works has then become a mix of graffiti, the art
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Will Barras is an artist, illustrator and animation director living and working in London.He grew up in Birmingham and moved to Bristol to study graphic design. After college Wills glittering career began in a call-centre where doodling stopped him from going insane. Here he developed a fucked up way of holding a pencil and a distinctive illustration style. Will became one of a new crop of young artists working within Bristol's world renowned street art scene.
This led to Will appearing in and becoming a founding member of the Scrawl collective. 'Scrawl' originally pub
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