Ekundayo was born in Hawaii in 1983. When he was still just a little boy, his parents split up and his father smuggled him out of the state. For years, his mother searched in vain for him. When Ekundayo was 11, his father passed away from lung cancer, leaving the young boy to live with […]
Wild Drawing is a street artist who was born in Bali, Indonesia, but is now based in Athens, Greece. His love of painting murals has taken him all over the world, however, to places like Sweden, England, Malta, Germany, France and Finland. Some of his paintings are created in urban settings such as warehouse districts […]
Director Shinsuke Tatsukawa introduces us to four influential Japanese street artists; ESOW, AIKO, and the duo KAMI & SASU (aka HITOTZUKI). Each of the artists have their own individual design style, based on the emotions that they would like to express to the world. For some of the graffiti artists, it’s not about communicating with people through their […]
Portuguese street artist Bordalo II has moved out of the realm of 2D street art and into the world of 3D sculptural graffiti. He recycles the unwanted remnants of human activity, ie, the rubbish that people discard from their homes and workplaces. Each piece of junk that finds its way into Bordalo’s art has its […]
The Italian city of Naples (Napoli in Italian) comes under artistic attack when a single paste-up artist papers the streets with his biblical art. The beginning of the video shows the artist at work in his studio, creating paste-up graffiti pieces with oil paint on paper. We later see Zilda wandering the city choosing sites […]
Based in Santiago de Cali, Colombian artist Anck Millan heads into the guts of the city to renew its spirit with his colorful abstract graffiti murals. Incorporating elements of geometry, abstract art and decorative patterns, Millan builds his murals around human figures and human ideas. His art is an abstract reflection of the society they exist […]
French street and gallery artists Supakitch and Koralie have a unique collaborative style; they work together not just to create indoor and outdoor wall murals, but they also work together to build a life as a married couple. When proposing to Koralie, Supakitch chose a proposal method that was relevant to them both; he created […]
Spanish graffiti artist Aryz reveals his painting methods in this video that shows him creating an indoor commissioned mural for a pizzeria. His tools include aerosol paint and paint brushes. He sprays the aerosol paint into caps which he then uses as a portable palette to dip his brush in as he works; creating fine […]
Bordalo Segundo (“segundo” means “second”) is a second generation artist. He grew up in Lisbon, Portugal, watching his grandfather, known as the “Real Bordalo” painting images of the city of Lisbon. Bordalo Segundo followed in his grandfather’s artistic footsteps, but decided to take his artistic pursuits one step further. Instead of painting images of the […]
Street artists Mr Shiz and JXC team up to create this enormous mural of the Transformer characters from the 2007 film. Transformers became popular in the 1980s as toys for kids. Those kids have now grown up and as adults, they continue to enjoy the Transformer characters on screen and through fan art. The graffiti […]