SINGLE
Stik
3-26 MARCH 2011
SINGLE MUM 2011 silkscreen print 45 x 112 cm - edition of 50
Stik’s latest solo show at the Subway Gallery features a Live Graffiti
event on the opening night, an installation comprised of four large
light-boxes and hosts the long awaited launch of the new high quality
print edition “Single Mum” produced by Squarity. As always there
will be smaller,affordable pieces on sale too at this free show.
Live painting by Stik on Saturdays throughout the month.
If you’ve visited East London in the last ten years you’ll doubtless have
seen the huge mysterious stick figures lurking on the sides of buildings
and billboards. Deceptively simple in form, with just six lines each and dots
for eyes, they are packed with subtle form and emotion. They are the work
of street artist Stik, who having spent many years homeless and working
on the streets, knows the city from the inside and manages to reach
seemingly superhuman locations to paint these highly stylized pieces.
These days Stik exhibits in the West-End, liaises at Central Saint Martin’s
“Graffiti Dialogues” with Police and Councils and is funded to run graffiti
workshops by councils and schools. The artist also works with groups
as diverse as Amnesty International, Reclaim the streets, Queeruption,
Mutoid Waste Company and British Waterways and yet still regularly
paints unauthorised pieces around the capital, underlining Stik's status
as a key component of both underground and mainstream art scenes.
SINGLE MUM 2011 - special edition artist proofs -45 x 112 cm
Silkscreenprint, oil based ink on 280gsm ‘Newsprint’ Somerset Paper 45 x 112 cm
SMALL ORIGINAL ARTWORKS 2011
Canvas, Acrylic paint 13 x 7.5 cm
SINGLE MUM 2011 - original -
Canvas, Acrylic paint 45 x 112 cm
PHOTOGRAPHS OF STIK GRAFFITI ARTWORKS BY DANIEL BEECROFT
LIGHT BOXES 2011 - Light red, Yellow, Orange, Red -
Metal light box, hand cut vinyl, perspex 53x 65 cm
