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London’s most prolific and original street artist who specialises in the central element of all graffiti – the form of letters. Eine, shot to international fame when David Cameron presented one of his works to President Obama as a gift on his first official state visit. In 2010 Eine curated and executed ‘Alphabet Street,’ painting the shutters and murals in his trademark colours and typography along the entire road of Middlesex Street, London.
'A street now internationally recognized as a living piece of art with direct links to The White House.'
The Times
www.einesigns.co.ukPainting, Graffiti Arts2011 -
Cheryl Dunn has a diverse background working in various capacities as a New York- based photographer, filmmaker and curator. Upon graduating from University with a degree in art history, Dunn became a successful photographer shooting for magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar and Dazed and Confused. In the mid 1990s, Dunn began to focus on filmmaking. Through her documentary style images, she shares her unique perspective and personal connections working closely with artists to reveal an intimate, behind-the-scenes and often unseen side to their creative lifestyle and environment.
www.cheryldunn.netPhotography2011 -
Melbourne natives Dabs Myla are a dynamic duo who have lived, worked and soaked in the sun of Los Angeles since 2009. Dabs started painting graffiti in 1995 and began teaching Myla the ropes of writing about ten years later, after they met while studying illustration in art school and fell in love. Soon afterward, they decided they liked their collaborative pieces better than their individual work, and from that point on they worked together exclusively as Dabs Myla. Inspired by graffiti, food, travel and their wonderful chaotic life together as a couple, their paintings play Dabs’ mischievous and sometimes ribald characters off Myla’s photorealistic cityscapes. Since their move to California, they have never spent little more than a few hours apart.
“I guess we are pretty lucky... two peas in a pod! Two crazy, workaholic, mad dorks in a pod! After years of living, painting walls and working together, we have only become closer, stronger and even more in sync. Every day we wake up, paint all day, and keep each other entertained with constant chatter and stupid jokes. Who could ask for more out of life?”
www.dabsmyla.comPainting2011 -
Faiths images reconstruct lost objects, broken-down cars, old factories and dusty side roads of forgotten towns. She investigates how humans interact with their environment, what scratches and memories they leave behind. Her interactions resonate with our fragility, with our enate understanding of symbols, dreams, textures and inevitable impermanence.
www.faith47.comPainting, Street Art2012 -
German Duo - “Opposites attract. Opposites attack.” - A collaboration of the aliases Hera and Akut, two graffiti artists from Frankfurt and Erfurt. Working together since they met in 2004, they combine contrasting styles of both spray paint and traditional painting methods in their highly stylised street works.
www.herakut.dePainting, Fine Arts2011 -
Born and raised in and around London, Holly draws inspiration from inner city life. These influences are evident in her abstracted paintings, and reflected in her edgy style and effusive use of texture and colour. Her work references an eclectic mix of street art, graffiti, and the natural decay of urban spaces.
www.hollythoburn.com
Her recent years have been spent travelling the world, sourcing and photographing inspiring scenes and developing her own way of recording the places she visits, from New York and Berlin, to India and Australia. Returning to London, she sets about, in her own unique way, recreating these surroundings — by summoning the cities’ walls and spaces to the canvas.Painting2012 -
Kukula was born in a relatively isolated village about an hour north of Tel Aviv. Her few neighbors were mostly retirees, many of them Holocaust survivors. As a result her childhood imagination was nourished by equal parts princess fantasies and World War II horror stories. Thus the attempt to reconcile real life horror with fantasy life sweetness emerges as an almost constant theme in her work. Kukula's paintings center on feminine, doll-like figures, often surrounded by objects with sometimes clear, sometimes obscure symbolic meaning. The work registers the influences of both classical European art forms and contemporary pop culture.
www.kukulaland.comPainting2012 -
Labrona is a Canadian artist well known for his work on city walls and freight trains. Inspired by 80′s skate culture, rundown industrial areas, and German Expressionism, his original artwork stems from his fascination with and desire to convey raw human emotion.Painting2012 -
Born in Philadelphia, but raised in Fresno, Luke Chueh started painting when the LA underground art show, Cannibal Flower, invited him to show at their events. Chueh quickly worked his way up the ranks of the LA art scene, establishing himself as an artist not to be ignored. Employing minimal color schemes, simple animal characters, and a seemingly endless list of ill-fated situations, Chueh stylistically walks the fine line between comedy and tragedy. Chueh’s work has been featured in galleries internationally.
www.lukechueh.comPainting, Illustration2011 -
Matthew Small is primarily a portrait artist. He paints directly onto found pieces of metal amongst other objects in an attempt to integrate the real world into his work. The people he paints are also found – filmed anonymously on the streets of London. His work mixes elements of abstraction and figuration to make a hybrid form of portraiture, whilst bringing physical elements of the city directly into his works. Both Pop and expressionist, the images are highly distinctive.
www.matt-small.comPainting2011 -
Pam Glew, born 1978, is a contemporary artist who is best known for her unique bleaching technique on fabric and flags. She uses dye and bleach to deconstruct and distress vintage materials in her own breed of painting. Heavily inspired by film, her paintings often use cinematic screen stills of women as their starting point. Her large-scale work has been showcased in Europe, USA, Asia and Australia in over 80 group exhibitions and 5 solo shows and is keenly collected worldwide.
www.pamglew.comPainting2012 -
XUE WANG was born in northern China in 1980, the year of the mischievous monkey. After a BA degree in Fashion in China at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art in Shenyang she relocated to London aged 22 and to finish her MA at University of Westminster. Painting and drawing, playing around with ideas, juxtaposing images and allowing her imagination free reign have all helped guide her development. The self-reflective intimacy of art, which has always been latent in her, forced Xue's transition from fashion to painting.
www.xuewang.weebly.comPainting2012
