Auckland-based mural / street art / graffiti artist
Being a mural artist that often uses spraypaint, I have noticed that a lot of people seem to be confused by the terms “graffiti“, “mural” and “street art”. That’s understandable; we live in a confusing world, language is fluid, and art is subjective. However this is something I have spent too long thinking about, so
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A week ago New Zealand lost one of our greatest cartoonists, Murray Ball. The night that I heard the news I went and painted a tribute to his primary character – the dog simply known as Dog – on a concrete water tower in our local dog park. I didn’t publicise this at the time
I was honoured to team up with the Child Cancer Foundation and Mr Vintage to produce this t-shirt. CCF Child Ambassador Sophie drew her monster, and then I painted my version of her drawing – and now you can help her fight the monster by buying one of these awesome shirts. At any given time,
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Done! Huge thanks again to everyone that donated money and paint, particularly Cracked Ink, Dulux New Zealand, and that one super generous guy that donated $400. Here are some before shots, progress shots, and a photo showing them in relation to each other. Here’s a brief writeup on the finished walls… ‘Tāne’ In Māori mythology, Tāne
Hi friends. So I’m not one to ask for money lightly, but I have a cool opportunity to make something awesome – and I’d love some more funds to make it more awesome. So I’d like to ask y’all to see if you can help. I was recently contacted by Mayfield Primary School in Ōtara, asking if I would
I had my second proper solo exhibition a couple of weeks ago. I’m pretty bad at promotion, so didn’t tell enough people, but I still had a nice crowd turn up, drink all the beer, and buy five paintings. So I’d count that as a win! I had fifteen pieces up for sale, based on
Over the next few months, I’m going to be involved in a couple of marketing / advertising / corporate gigs with my art. Being an old school, DIY-or-die punk rock type that loves my independence, this is something I spent a fair bit of time thinking about; am I going to be a sellout? Is this the first step in a decline where I am diluting my core ideals in exchange for a bit of temporary moolah?
The short answer, of course, is “yes”.
I have been given permission to paint some of Chorus’s exchange boxes around Auckland, after there was some great press about the Grumpy Cat piece I painted; it was featured on the front page of the Central Leader, our local paper, and support for it was so widespread that the local community board – the
So I thought I’d spread a bit of the love on here and give some publicity to five artists from New Zealand whose work I love, and who have inspired me in my own artistic career. (This, of course, means I can totally link to their profiles on Facebook when I post this, and hopefully
Start with the archetypal apology for sporadic updates, which inordinately draws attention to the date of the previous entry (it’s August last year). Offer up excuses; new baby, busy job, lack of hours in the day. Anyway, now I’m back to the regular schedule. My new fans and more observant haters may have seen the