ABOUT THE WORK

Throughout my practice I engage with street art and graffiti and hope to portray a sense of the unknown by manipulating others works and adding texture to the surface to further confuse the new image.

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Throughout my time studying graffiti and street art I have visited many places, but the ones that stood out for me are Shoreditch and the Leake Street Tunnel, both of which are located in London. Both of these places stood out for me with such contrasting sets of work, tags and styles, and I draw a lot of inspiration from the artists that I have seen, that have travelled throughout both of these places, only being recognised by their tags, as the majority wish to be anonymous.

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My works are usually completed with acrylic paint, sand, glue and occasionally ink or oil paints. I start by mapping and editing the images I have taken from others and creating something new and then deciding how I would like it to look from a perspective that wouldn’t automatically know what the image is. By the viewer’s perspective being taken into account when planning, I end up with all sorts of observations throughout completing the work, which may end up influencing a change in said work or possibly a new idea for my next project. The finished piece can also inspire new ideas, as by the viewer not necessarily knowing what they are supposed to be seeing, they perceive the painting in a different way of how it was meant, and it is inspiring to see how other people’s minds work when put in front of the same image.

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To further my practice, I aim to include more work with oil paint as it can bring out a softer side to my works, one which can also bring further obscurities. I also intend to use my airbrush more on my texture effects to exaggerate the surfaces and experiment with depth.