Street Art Exhibition.

Today I went to The Herbet in Coventry for the current exhibition of Street Art: Contemporaty Prints From the V&A. There was a large of range of different street artist with different styles and techniques.

SPQR

Meggs - Save Me From Myself

Laura McLauchlan

Horn Head - Weird Uncle

Pure Evil - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Bastards

Insect - The Executioner

 Kerry Roper - Modern Youth

Vhils - Periferia Uniforme

The artists used a range of medias including stencils, screen print, collage and freehand painting.

These artists in particular caught my eye.

Pahnl

Pahnl uses simple cartoon style stencils of people, dogs, cats and birds. He creates a continuing story with the characters, spreading them out over urban areas. The video was playing in the exhibition, it's simple but very effective.


Shepard Fairey - his work is usually done by screen printing. His is most famous for his Obey work but has also done music related art.

He also did the well-known cover for Led Zeppelin's album Mothership.

 

Miss Tic - is a french artist who works with stencils usually of the same woman. I love her print "Ma Zone" with ripped layers collage in the background and the stencil woman on top, I would like to create this kind of effect on my front cover.

Ben Slow - I love the effect he creates with the raw sketch image and dripping paint.