Stik is a British
graffiti art
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ist based in
London
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.
He is known for painting large
stick figure
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s.
Overview
Stik paints
stick figure
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-like people as
street art
Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility. It has been associated with the terms "independent art", "post-graffiti", "neo-graffiti" and guerrilla art.
Street art has evolved from the early forms of defiant graff ...
. He began in London,
working in its northeast area of
Hackney, especially in
Shoreditch
Shoreditch is a district in the East End of London in England, and forms the southern part of the London Borough of Hackney. Neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets are also perceived as part of the area.
In the 16th century, Shoreditch was an impor ...
,
"and now paints murals all over the world in Europe, Asia and America."
He liaises at the
Central Saint Martins
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''Graffiti Dialogues'' and has been funded to run graffiti workshops.
He has worked with
Amnesty International,
British Waterways
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, the
Mutoid Waste Company,
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, and
Reclaim the Streets
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. He paints unauthorised art as well as pieces that are authorised.
In 2011, Stik had a solo show at
Imitate Modern, a gallery in London's
West End
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* West End of London, an area of central London, England
* West End theatre, a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London, England
West End may also refer to:
Pl ...
.
In 2012, he worked in
Dulwich
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, southeast London in collaboration with curator
Ingrid Beazley, where he recreated
paintings in his own style that were exhibited in
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, South London, which opened to the public in 1817. It was designed by Regency architect Sir John Soane using an innovative and influential method of illumination. Dulwich is the oldest pub ...
. This led to further street artists including
Conor Harrington,
MadC
MadC (born Claudia Walde, 1980) is a graffiti writer and muralist. She was born in Bautzen, Germany, and is most known for her large-scale, outdoor artistic paintings.
MadC started as a teenage graffiti writer and has since developed her crea ...
,
Mear One,
Thierry Noir
Thierry Noir (born 1958) is a French artist and muralist based in Berlin. He is considered the first artist to paint the Berlin Wall in the 1980s. He created brightly-colored paintings across large spans of the Berlin Wall and some of these ori ...
,
Francisco Rodrigues da Silva (Nunca),
Phlegm
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,
James Reka (Reka One),
Remi Rough and System
Remi Rough is a street and gallery artist from South London, England.
Rough first started as a street artist in the 1980s, moving to gallery art later. His compositions are abstract with coloured shapes and straight edges.
His work has been e ...
, and
ROA, becoming involved to form the
Dulwich Outdoor Gallery
Dulwich Outdoor Gallery (DOG) is a collection of street art in south London, with works based on traditional paintings in Dulwich Picture Gallery. The DOG was established by Ingrid Beazley, a pioneer of promoting street art.
The Dulwich Str ...
of street art around the Dulwich area in 2013. In February 2013 he collaborated with Noir in Shoreditch.
In April 2012, the ''
London Evening Standard
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In October 2009, after be ...
'' reported that "he was living in a St Mungo’s hostel for the homeless last year as he prepared for his first gallery show."
In March 2013 Stik gave away poster copies of his art via ''
The Big Issue
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.''
The
BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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said at the time that in "the last two years, Stik's fame has grown with celebrity endorsements and rising auction prices.
One of his works, a sculpture titled ‘Up On The Roof’, fetched £150,000 at auction.
Publications
*''Stik.''
Century
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A centennial ...
, 2015. .
See also
*
List of street artists
This is a list of notable street artists.
Africa Egypt
* Alaa Awad - street art, painter
* Aya Tarek – graffiti
* Chico – stencil graffiti, street art
* El Teneen – graffiti
* Ganzeer – stencil graffiti
* Keizer – stencil g ...
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Artists from London
English graffiti artists