▫️Maneki-neko Mural, Kaohsiung City…
My 11 x 5 meter tall mural painted in the old industrial port area of Kaohsiung City. This piece is a homage to Taiwan, and takes inspiration from the intense visual language and energy of the busy city streets.
The artwork is centred around the maneki-neko (招き猫) a Japanese figurine believed to bring good luck & good fortune, a symbol / character widely embraced throughout Asia & Taiwan.
Creating a piece of art that was big, bright, and colourful, with a positive impact on the local community was the main objective here - to date, this was easily one of the most enjoyable and rewarding mural projects I’ve worked on.
Pier-2 Art, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan - 2023
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Throw-up letters x horizontal 3D gradient fills… painted back in January, had to leave for London the next day so couldn’t get any decent finished day shots / footage other than this wip…
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This one leans back into the early 90s.
The character is heavily influenced by Met (CBM), one of the most prolific and significant writers in West London at the time , someone who had a real impact on many of us coming up through that era. A standout writer back then, still active to this day… a living London legend.
CBM was just starting to make noise in West London when I first linked up with them around 1994. Still one of the best summers London’s ever had.
In one of the slides you can see most of the crew on White City Estate, Shepherd’s Bush, circa 1995. In the next, one of Met’s early character sketches that is somehow still intact after three decades in a battered old blackbook.
LWS (Live Wires) came a little later, in the late 90s / early 00s. A lot of good times with this bunch of dirty rascals…. simple times with simple people 💨💨💨
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Electro funk… never got round to posting a straight on shot of my piece from the ‘Year of the Snake’ wall earlier this year…
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