Joe (Dark Ballad)

“It’s my own obsessed brain. I’ve got a to-do list of what I want to do in a week, but there’s 50 things on each day that obviously can’t all be done. Because I’m always thinking about these things, the moment is not really lived in at all. I was always pretty neurotic like that, […]

Vanessa

“Giggly girt! Giggly girt!” “See I got my hair cut on Friday. I’ve got my hair band to keep it up. See? Like this I keep it up. Biscuit Blair – she’s my favourite woman. And you. And that cheeky lady over there. My last name is Rule. I’ll write it down for you, you […]

Jillian

“When my last baby went off to school people said, oh, you’ll be going back to work now, but I just wanted a year to myself first and so I started painting. I had a really blessed career path. I was picked up by a gallery within six months of starting painting, and started selling […]

Richard/Pops

“I got into graffiti art as a teenager after seeing what the kids were doing on the subway trains in New York. I’m 48 now and I’ve officially been self-employed for about 15 years. I’ve worked with young people in Youth Justice, and I’ve been painting commissioned murals here in Christchurch for almost a decade […]

Gerard

“Well hello there……. I am an artist of the weird and I love surrealism.” – Gerard

Anton

“I left Russia 5 years ago. I go out onto the streets with my brush for a combination of reasons. First, to put something on canvas, to make brushes busy, to create. And the second, to make someone see it, join and try it. To feel how it is to be an artist. They will […]

Ikarus

“I was super anti-change. Back then I was like, I don’t have any talents. Tagging is only a talent appreciated by so many people. But it’s still the only thing I had, so I was like, I’ll do that; cos then it will impress at least those people. When I first started out I was […]