Street Artist Stik
He stops in front of his piece A Couple Hold Hands in the Street which shows a woman in a niqab holding hands with a second stick figure. Stik has been creating Stik people around London for over ten years and anyone who has wandered around Shoreditch recently will have been greated by Stiks supersize bright street art adorning shop shutters and walls.
Stik Simple Figures Complex Messages
Stik is an anonymous British street artist known for his iconic depictions of unassuming stick figures scrawled upon water towers brick walls and gated doors around the globe.
Street artist stik. LONDON Reuters - Thousands of prints by popular London street artist STIK that he wanted to give to his local community as a gesture of solidarity. InkStemism from Tinta Crua in Lisbon Portuguese activist street artist and illustrator Tinta Crua says he hasnt had a lot of action in Lisbon since the virus outbreak so hes been experimenting with animation and seeing his figures come to life across the screen. In 2001 a British artist began spray-painting the black and white outline of a human composed of just six lines and two dots on walls around east London.
Stik started off in Hackney wick and made his way to the street art mecca of Shoreditch. Stiks Big Mother Street art doesnt have to be complicated or intricate to be meaningful but being enormous doesnt hurt. As a late winter storm pounds London the artist known as Stik leaves his studio and heads for Brick Lane the East London street that has become a mecca for graffiti art.
View Stiks 373 artworks on artnet. Ingeniously lurking in nooks and walls worldwide theyre packed full of emotion and attitude. London United Kingdom Stik is Londons most treasured street artist.
Stik has been creating Stik people around London for over ten years and anyone who has wandered around Shoreditch recently will have been greated by Stiks supersize bright street art adorning shop shutters and walls. From living on the cold streets Stik found comfort and then fame with his street art work painting his Stik figures on the streets of London. STIK Youll recognise Stiks iconic work as soon as you see it his black-lined figures appear simple at first then bowl you over with their charm.
A case in point the artist Stiks well-known Big Mother a 13-story mural formerly located on the side of the Charles Hocking House social housing tower in London. From Phillips Stik Lovers 2011 Screenprint in colours on Somerset Newsprint wove paper with full margins 1122 559 cm. 179 This piece is called Art Thief says the street artist known as Stik.
His simple stick figures wordlessly tell the story of his community and he frequently collaborates with hospitals charities and homeless organisations. He has lived in a homeless hostel and dodged police to put his mark on the city but now London-based graffiti artist Stik is invited all over the world to p. Its a searingly hot day in Shoreditch east London and were standing outside his old studio on Pitfield Street.
Stik people initally began to appear in Hackney Wick and in recent years marched westward to Shoreditch and the rest of London. Though simple composed of just six lines each with dots for eyes Stiks stick people are subtly expressive. Stik people initally began to appear in Hackney Wick and in recent years marched westward to Shoreditch and the rest of London.
He adopted the name STIK in reference to the simple shape of his figures in order to cloak his identity. Biography For the last decade street artist Stiks huge mysterious figures have been lurking on the sides of buildings and billboards in Hackney. Stik started painting unofficial socially conscious murals in his hometown of Hackney East London in 2001.
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