Birmingham-born, now London-based Will Barras is known as part of Bristol alumni and as an original member of the illustrative Scrawl Collective (alongside Mr Jago and Steff Plaetz) featuring in the 1998 publication Scrawl, Dirty Graphics and Strange Characters. Now crossing the fine art divide Will Barras also works as a director and designer for the animation company Bermuda Shorts and exhibits worldwide, most recently Barcelona and Miami Art Basel. Learn More
From spray painting fanged vampire bunnies on the streets of London to creating canvases and prints inspired by “the wreckage of utopian dreams”. Stir in a mix of gonzo American pop culture, rock n roll, 19th century London life and French literature, pearly kings and queens, bunnies and psychotic penguins and you start to understand the quadrophrenic gallows humour of Pure Evil’s artwork. Learn More
For the past 25 years South London’s Remi/Rough is one of London’s most forward thinking graffiti artists. Stepping out of the confines of being labelled as simply a graffiti artist Remi/Rough is now an established graphic designer, creative director, gallery curator and fine artist – working with Nike and Red Bull and was the invited guest speaker at the Tate Modern’s Street Art series, where Remi/Rough presented a talk and debate on the history of the UK graffiti movement
Daniel Melim was born in 1979, August 27th in São Bernardo do Campo, an industrial city nearby São Paulo. He is a graduate of fine arts and has been painting on the walls of his neighborhood with friends since he was a teenager. Both, academic and street training give him an original style mixing organic geometry with stencil art. Learn More
Sesper is one of the members of the renowned Brazilian art collective, the Famiglia Baglione. He has participated in and filmed many of their live painting and gallery installations around Brazil. In music is a full time vocalist for Garage Fuzz band since 1991.
Nasceu em Porto Alegre, 1973. Especialidades: Arte urbana, pintura, instalação. Referências: Pop, expressionismo, Karel Appel, Grupo Cobra, Basquiat, sticker art. Conceito: Carlinhos afirma que o seu trabalho é "sem conceito"... Avesso as escolas, ele cria um universo próprio, energético, poluído, colorido, cheio de personagens e ruídos absurdos. Arte: Original, nasce nas ruas, nos shows da sua banda, na sua coleção de discos e vai desembocar nas telas pintadas com tinta acrílica, canetão, giz de cera, pincel, spray ou qualquer coisa que tenha a mão. Pop expressionismo = humor + energia. Learn More
Marrow of Neighborhood. This is my neighborhood something crazy.
Q while I love the shepherd ... I hate the lining of the Sundays of moral decay.
love and hate of the neighborhood.
Vila Mariana to the marrow.
Hush is an urban artist who worked in Hong Kong for a number of years as graphic designer/illustrator before returning to the UK. His popularity is soaring, with sell out shows in London and Los Angeles, along with high profile street pieces, sold out print runs and collaborations.
KARBORN is the urban romantic, living in secret gardens in moody cities... Dystopia or Utopia. KARBORN's penchant for marrying the organic, traditional and technical was formed in his early teens and he has since been peddling his beautiful, multi-media craft in live AV and DJ sets, on canvases and prints, coming together in perfect, symbiotic unison at his debut solo exhibition during 2008's pioneering Sonar Festival in Barcelona.
“Graffiti art is free art, offering free culture for people. Art and music you can teach but you don’t have to go to university. Working on this project directly with the kids and using new art to help people, it’s an honour and a power. Power brings enlightenment.”