Interviews
Interview: Skount
Skount (Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, 1985), currently based in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Inspired by the classical Spanish theatre of the town where he spent the most of his childhood (Almagro), Skount’s oneiric masked characters beckon the viewer from the urban environment into their mysterious and playful dreamscapes. The great playwrights of Skount’s youth formed …
Interview: Borondo
Gonzalo Borondo was born in Spain 1989. He grew up in Segovia where his mother let him paint the hallway of his house and his father spent his life restoring Christs and Holy Maries. In 2003 he moves to Madrid where he strengthens his relationship with Graffiti. Some years after he starts visiting the studio …
Interview: Ernest Zacharevic
Ernest Zacharevic or better known as ZACHAS in the art world, is a Lithuaninan native who studied his way through life, but discovered street art and is now rather permanently based in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia. He started out young, scribbling with crayons on his dad’s newspaper, which then transformed into art school in his hometown, …
Interview: Jimmy C ( James Cochran)
James Cochran, aka Jimmy C, played a key role in the development of the underground graffiti movement in Australia during the early 1990’s, and after working on numerous mural commissions and community arts projects, went on to complete a Masters degree in Visual Arts at the University of South Australia with an interest in urban …
Interview: Catching up with My Dog Sighs before his US tour.
After 10 years of giving his art away for free as part of the now infamous Free Art Friday project in the UK, My Dog Sighs has this year finally found himself strapped in to a well-deserved meteoric rise. With an incredible international following in Israel, Japan and the UK, three sold out shows under …
Interview: Snik
Initially inspired by the Graffiti scene, Snik has been working with stencil and spray can for 10 years now. Constantly pushing the boundaries, this artist duo has developed a unique style which is equally captivating on walls as it in on canvas. Staying true to their form, Snik hand cuts up to nine layers at …
Interview: Fintan Magee
Born in Lismore NSW (Australia), Fintan Magee moved to Brisbane as a child and began drawing shortly after. In his early teens, he was exposed to Brisbane’s graffiti culture, and began to scrawl his name across the city with large vibrant letter forms. Moving away from traditional graffiti in recent years, his guerilla murals often …
Interview: Dot Dot Dot
DOT DOT DOT is the pseudonym for an anonymous Norway-based graffiti artist. He first started as a graffiti artist in 1997. Operating under several different pseudonyms over the following years, he decided to step into a more figurative and conceptual mode of art. Around 2007 he started to do stencil art, but continued to do …
Interview: Carolina Falkholt
Carolina Falkholt has worked with developing the art form of graffiti towards a musical, performative and social practice since the end of the 90s. She has regularly invited other artists, musicians, the public and organizations to collaborate with her. Apart from spray painting and sketching she also creates sculptures, performance, lyrics, music and video. Her …
Interview: Martin Whatson
Martin Whatson is born in Norway. He discovered stencils and the urban art scene while studying Art and Graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication, in Oslo. After following the development in the street art scene closely, he started his own artistic production in 2004. Martin has a continuous urge to search for beauty in …
Interview: Lucy Fisher – The Next Leg
Lucy Fisher, a photographer from Cardiff, Wales, is obsessed with legs. Her most recent project, “The Next Leg Project”, focuses particularly on legs and shoes from around the world, as she travels around the world with her Canon Camera mainly looking downwards. The response has been incredibly positive all over the globe. The artist was …
Interview: JPS
JPS is an artist currently based in the south west of England. His stencil and non stencil based work has given him great publicity, reviews and acclaim. His work has been purchased by collectors around the world and appears alongside such names as Damien Hirst, Banksy, Nick Walker, Andy Warhol and Tracey Emin. He appeared …