Nathalie Lemel was an anarchist, born in Brest in 1827. A militant social activist and trade-unionist. These are the people that need to be remembered.
Brest, France
Paste-up drawing in Rue Volta, Paris. It’s only paper – it’ll disappear in time.
Paris paste-up and stencil frenzy. 2019
Following some election or other… Paste-up in London.
Chateaulin, France.
Watford, UK
UPFEST Bristol 2018
Brooklyn, New York – 2010
The old ones are the best ones.
If we don’t change the way we live and our entire economic system then this could be our future… Deep-sea window-shopping in Brest, France.
Four metres wide, free public art, in Les Capucins, Brest.
La Carène music venue in Brest allowed me to paste up more work to address the issues of climate change.
Stencilled signature.
Second of the pair of stencilled paste-ups for New York. With words from William Blake split between the pair. “Can I see another’s woe,. And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief,. And not seek for kind relief?”
‘Mon CoeurBeau’, Vitry
Les Capucins, Brest, France
Paris, temporary… prior to demolition…
‘Bella Ciao’, Paris
Brest, France
Art against war at the Place de la République in Paris following the terror attacks of 2015.
keep it tidy
Compressed charcoal – not spray-paint.
The first of the Mon Coeur Beau crows – painted on a wall in Vitry, Paris, France.
Paradis est ici in France. Paradise is here in Bristol. UPFEST 2015.
shutters, Strasbourg, France
the writing on the wall, Bristol
Brest Post Office interior prior to demolition, 2021.
This is how it starts
les Capucins, Brest, France
Oxton, UK
Morlaix, France
Armand Robin. Anarchist, pacifist poet of Brittany. Brest, France
Pasted. Falling angels. Brest, France.
St Brieuc, France 2020
Lodz, Poland
‘Flowers of Romance’
Part of my contribution to the Tour 13 urban art project in Paris.
rue du paradis
the blame game
It’s a 2001/Oscar Wilde shandy. I’m sorry Dave…
Paris – pornography for plutocrats paste-up
paste-up drawing, Paris
A week’s work that was all lost when the building was demolished a month or so after the public left the building.
Brooklyn, US
Brooklyn, NY
One of the ‘Descent of man’ paste-ups for Brest, France. Done to bring more awareness to issues of climate change and the impending COP21 conference later that year.
small acts of disobedience
Dusselfdorf, Germany
Brest, France
Old words, same problems now.
Portrait of Jack Kerouac, Finistere, March 2022
projet 00
portrait of Tara Houska, Bristol
disused church, Brest, France
Spraying up a storm at Bristol’s UPFEST urban art festival.
Some stencils made in the 80s are just as relevant 30 years later
Not all 80s graffiti was about hip-hop…
Brest, France
paste-up in Paris
MAUSA Vauban, France
The other one of the two La Carène drawings in the studio.
Keep Calm. Carrion…
Victor Schœlcher mural in Fessenheim
protest banners
Finished wall piece in Lodz, Poland. It was painted over about six months after. Never mind – a new blank street canvas.
Mon Coeur Beau saying “Hello”…
A hidden “Mon Coeur Beau” spray up in Brest.
The ‘Welsh’ streets in Liverpool, UK
Upfest summer editions Bristol 2019
paste-up prior to building demolition
Warsaw, Poland
Paris, France
nuart aberdeen 2021 paste-up
Brest, France
Mon Coeur Beau… Paris
MAUSA Vauban, Alsace
The first stencils I started with in the early 80s – always being re-cut for use again.
Portrait of Nathalie Lemel in a collaborative mural with Shoof. Brest, France
The entrance to the apartment I was given.
I don’t care if it’s obvious. I don’t care if it’s not fashionable in art. It needs saying.
paste-up drawing, Brest
Brick Lane area London, UK
Manhattan, US
St Brieuc paste-up, France
More, more, more…
Two and a half metre wide paste-up drawing.
First of a pair of stencilled paste-ups for New York. In recognition of the lives lost there in 2001 – and consequently in Fallujah in 2004.
Pasting up in Watford.
Paris, 2017
Save them, don’t kill them.
Conte and chalk drawing on brown paper – ready for pasting up…
Melbourne, Australia
The old school project
What turns on a plutocrat? Finance pages of course… Paste-up piece.
Painted in the 80s in english… and in french 30 years later
Bristol musician Adrian Thaws – or Tricky… on a wall for UPFEST urban art festival.