Spraying up a storm at Bristol’s UPFEST urban art festival.
The entrance to the apartment I was given.
Not all 80s graffiti was about hip-hop…
the blame game
paste-up drawing, Brest
Oxton, UK
The old ones are the best ones.
Compressed charcoal – not spray-paint.
What turns on a plutocrat? Finance pages of course… Paste-up piece.
shutters, Strasbourg, France
I don’t care if it’s obvious. I don’t care if it’s not fashionable in art. It needs saying.
The first of the Mon Coeur Beau crows – painted on a wall in Vitry, Paris, France.
Lodz, Poland
St Brieuc, France 2020
Les Capucins, Brest, France
Helene Berr paste-up, Paris
Paris – pornography for plutocrats paste-up
Following some election or other… Paste-up in London.
Two and a half metre wide paste-up drawing.
Portrait of Jack Kerouac, Finistere, March 2022
Old words, same problems now.
The first stencils I started with in the early 80s – always being re-cut for use again.
‘Bella Ciao’, Paris
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.
Chateaulin, France.
MAUSA Vauban, Alsace
Pasting up in Watford.
Paradis est ici in France. Paradise is here in Bristol. UPFEST 2015.
It’s a 2001/Oscar Wilde shandy. I’m sorry Dave…
The old school project
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.
Manhattan, US
keep it tidy
Brooklyn, NY
paste-up in Paris
Brest, France
Dusselfdorf, Germany
Paris paste-up and stencil frenzy. 2019
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?”
Armand Robin. Anarchist, pacifist poet of Brittany. Brest, France
UPFEST Bristol 2018
Victor Schœlcher mural in Fessenheim
La Carène music venue in Brest allowed me to paste up more work to address the issues of climate change.
Paris, France
Brest, France
Brest, France
Pasted. Falling angels. Brest, France.
St Brieuc paste-up, France
Watford, UK
Conte and chalk drawing on brown paper – ready for pasting up…
Paris, France
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.
small acts of disobedience
Brooklyn, US
nuart aberdeen 2021 paste-up
A week’s work that was all lost when the building was demolished a month or so after the public left the building.
Morlaix, France
Mon Coeur Beau… Paris
Finished wall piece in Lodz, Poland. It was painted over about six months after. Never mind – a new blank street canvas.
Tour 13 project, Paris, France
Stencilled signature.
rue du paradis
Free art… empty, painted can drop in Brest.
La fete est finie, Paris
Brest Post Office interior prior to demolition, 2021.
‘Mon CoeurBeau’, Vitry
Art against war at the Place de la République in Paris following the terror attacks of 2015.
A hidden “Mon Coeur Beau” spray up in Brest.
Painted in the 80s in english… and in french 30 years later
projet 00
Four metres wide, free public art, in Les Capucins, Brest.
Brick Lane area London, UK
Brooklyn, New York – 2010
Brest, France
Brest, France. Done with permission and a helmet.
Melbourne, Australia
The ‘Welsh’ streets in Liverpool, UK
Some stencils made in the 80s are just as relevant 30 years later
Paris, 2017
MAUSA Vauban, France
Save them, don’t kill them.
paste-up drawing, Paris
Warsaw, Poland
the writing on the wall, Bristol
Bristol 2019 for UPFEST summer editions
The other one of the two La Carène drawings in the studio.
les Capucins, Brest, France
‘Flowers of Romance’
Bristol musician Adrian Thaws – or Tricky… on a wall for UPFEST urban art festival.
Paris, temporary… prior to demolition…
More, more, more…
Portrait of Nathalie Lemel in a collaborative mural with Shoof. Brest, France
This is how it starts
Brest, France
Mon Coeur Beau saying “Hello”…
Keep Calm. Carrion…
protest banners
Part of my contribution to the Tour 13 urban art project in Paris.
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.
disused church, Brest, France
Paste-up drawing in Rue Volta, Paris. It’s only paper – it’ll disappear in time.