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