R.I.P Hate

Here's a piece back from September this year. Myself, TONY RIFF, NISER, TOILE, and GEAK got together to take out this space with co-ordinance from Global Street Art.

I dedicated my piece to HATE. Hate died 10 years ago unfortunately on train tracks. HATE was a local writer with a lot of credit in the scene of our generation. I met HATE one summer back in 2006 and it as an honour to finally see him, he was full of kind words and acknowledgement for my work and we had agreed to paint once I got back in a month from U.S.

When I got back the first thing I saw when I was driving back from Heathrow was R.I.P HATE written somewhere, I think it may have been in West London. I phoned another writer as soon as I got in to the lab and it was confirmed that he had died, it was a great loss to the scene.

There's people that will take away from this "Well he shouldn't be on the train tracks then." Well you could say that, but I'll say this: This scene has supported me, it has taught myself and a large amount of other writers things that the education system failed to teach us. For over 5 decades this scene has been demonised for criminal activities, with barely any support in our creativity and the progression. It's only in the last 8 years I've noticed a shift. We make use of spaces that others do not care about, people just walk on by, go past it on the train, they don't even blink about it. We live in a backwards, stifling society and these incidents can easily be lowered if there was more progressive resolutions to accommodating space. A very nice person died, because they were doing something that they were passionate about and was harmless to anybody. It's a shame.

Tony Riff

NISER

TOILE

GEAK

JEBA X KAES X KARMA

JEBA X FEWD

Ghostwriters meet up.

Here's some action from the GhostWriters paint Jam earlier in the summer. Just realised there's still quite a lot to catch you guys up on!

CORES

2RISE

KAES

TRAFIK

OUST

SLEAFER

TIZER

My largest wall to date!!

I'm am proud to announce that during this busy period, I tackled the largest wall space single handedly in my career! Alongside Paint Freaks I painted the acanthus decoration spanning across 660 sqft back wall. I had 2 colleagues tackle the character and the type, as there was no way I could be that selfish!

But I do see this as quite an achievement, it took a good amount of time, quite a bit of paint, and I'm ready to call it a year now!

KnowhereSpecial returns

It has been quite a mental month. It seems like it was one project after another.

Inktober kicked off well which I will fill you in on soon in another post.

But a great announcement!!

Do you all remember KnowhereSpecial, a great cocktail bar in North London which I had the opportunity of doing some work for??

Well the bar is back after unfortunate issues with a dodgy London landlord and I was invited to bring a new piece to the corridor leading into the bar

Take a glimpse, more pics coming up soon.

TOWIC '16

Maybe you saw the wall at TOWIC (The Only Way is Crossfit) in Woodford, which I painted a few years ago.. Maybe not. Recently I got received an upsetting message informing me that the wall had been damaged through to flooding, and, well needed to be redone!

So for this a new concept expanding on the previous was needed. Quite a challenge, but once I got to into the flow of it all, something that can be accomplished.

CityLimitS

Getting back into the swing of things and getting ready for Inktober.

Grand Wizards

I've been pretty slack this ear with work and all but I've got to say it's been a busy Summer of Painting!  here's one with my baby brother.

Carnival 16

Had a corker this Bank Holiday Weekend with 2RISE at Carnival! GhostWriters represented!