Street Art Collector

Welcome to our Art NFT Insights series, this time sitting down with Elena Calderon Alaez, one of the Founders of Totemo, the first NFT marketplace focussing exclusively on street art.  Elena has one of the most interesting backgrounds I've ever heard of. She spent her university days studying the preservation of public art. She writes papers on graffiti and speaks at numerous conferences on the to...

On this episode, we sit down with Jane Louise, Founder of Oshi Gallery, who, along with her partner GT, has pioneered the NFT movement in Australia. Long-term gallerists in the street art scene, Jane and GT became obsessed with blockchain tech in 2017 and have followed the possibilities it's presented to artists since then.  Now running one of the world's leading NFT galleries, a go-to fountain of...

Welcome back to our Art NFT Insights series, this time sitting down with Minami Kobayashi, one of the Founders of Totemo, the first NFT marketplace focussing exclusively on street art.  Minami comes from the traditional art world, where she wore many hats working with young Japanese contemporary artists, curating their work and introducing them to new international markets. Today she is the Head o...

On this episode, we sit down with Danielle Weber, a muralist, studio and NFT artist who's delved deep into the NFT space, testing different approaches and taking a long-term ultra-chill approach to the scene. There for the long haul, with initial success already under her belt, she's still not fussed about immediate sales. The focus is the build, and the results are primed to come.  Danielle Weber...

On this episode, we sit down with Chris Dyer, an artist whose work is instantly recognisable with his psychedelic-style artworks that reside on just about every surface. Always one to play in many mediums, Chris has found great success in his NFT projects and felt the full force of a community rallying behind him to lift him up and back the good vibes he's putting out with his Galaktic Gang.  Chri...

On this episode, we sit down with multifaceted commercial street artist, gallery owner and co-founder of the Keyboard Warriors Internet Cafe, JESWRI, to talk about the KWIC project and its many, many layers. Part PFP project, part game, part internet cafe, part anti-cyberbullying taskforce, KWIC is an intricate project that is 100% an insight into the brain behind its art and design.  JESWRI onlin...

On this episode, we sit down with multi-talented studio, NFT and street artist Terry Urban, who's been painting surfaces of all kinds for decades in the street, the studio, and more recently, the blockchain.  Partnering up with Streetlab.io, Terry recently dropped a massive NFT collection, Kooks by Terry Urban, which sold out in minutes and received high praise from his collectors and fans.  Now e...

On this episode, I have the brains behind the Totemo brand... All Co-Founders: Marty Roberts, CEO; Minami Kobayashi, Head of Sales and Marketing; Elena Calderon Alaez, Head of Curation and Ally Ogilvie, CTO.  Now launched with artists Kuua, Baki Baki, Robots Will Kill, Jodee Knowles, Shiro and La Mano Fria on board, the team talk through how the marketplace came together and why the world needs an...

On the podcast today, I sit down with abstract expressionist artist and designer, Sahil Roy, who entered into the public art sphere through graffiti in his early teens before taking his practice into the studio and developing the iconic abstract, graff-futurist style that we see today.  Off the back of a killer 2022, gracing the mural festival circuit, moving into a new space and collaborating wit...

On this episode, Steph sits down with street and contemporary artist Tom Gerrard, talking specifically to street artists about the opportunities available in the NFT space and giving practical information on how to get into it. Today, we discuss Reaching Your NFT Audience.  This alone is a huge deterrent for artists. You've spent years carefully curating your Instagram, getting into Reels and buil...

On the podcast today, I sit down with Australian multi-disciplinary artist, Steve Leadbeater, who's been exhibiting his work since the 90s, producing truly unique, dark, cynical, human, and often humorous artworks that elicited passionate opinions from both sides of the fence.  Tempted into the NFT space by fellow artist, Tom Gerrard, Leadbeater has dropped his first collection, 3 NFT-perfect piec...

On this episode, Steph sits down with street and contemporary artist Tom Gerrard, talking specifically to street artists about the opportunities available in the NFT space and giving practical information on how to get into it. Today, we discuss Pricing Your NFTs.  This is a tricky one, and spoiler alert, there's really no way to give a clear answer. As you probably know, everything on the blockch...

ELLE is an internationally renowned street artist and muralist with a background in graffiti, obsessively painting with some of the world's best, building her reputation as a tenacious artist who simply never stops producing.  While known for her unmistakable collage style, Elle experiments across mediums and refuses to box herself into any one aesthetic. Whether it's walls, canvas, sculpture or N...

On this episode, Steph sits down with street and contemporary artist Tom Gerrard, talking specifically to street artists about the opportunities available in the NFT space and giving practical information on how to get into it. Today, we discuss NFT Partners and Platforms.  You've no doubt heard artists talk about their animator or even team, as well as the different blockchains and marketplaces. ...

Ben Crook is the man behind the epic immersive visual installation Street Art Alive, which has recently debuted in Los Angles and is set to travel the world. Nicole Crivelli is the woman behind the initiative to incorporate NFTs into the exhibition, creating a new way for attendees and existing fans to purchase a piece of the experience while also presenting a new way for contributing artists to g...

On this episode, Steph sits down with street and contemporary artist Tom Gerrard, talking specifically to street artists about the opportunities available in the NFT space and giving practical information on how to get into it. Today, we discuss What Street Artists Can Actually Make into NFTs.  Of course, there are endless examples of street artists putting down the cans to produce digital art on...

For 29 years, Yesca has been painting his letters and characters everywhere he travels, never mixing his graffiti with his commercial endeavours. Yesca's philosophy is that graffiti should be illegal and on the street. Once it hits a canvas or NFT, can it really be called graffiti?  As he is an artist who's also producing canvases and NFTs, I wanted to know what that looks like, expressing the for...

On this episode, Steph sits down with street and contemporary artist Tom Gerrard to kick off a special series - within our Art NFT Insights series -aimed explicitly at street artists, diving deep into the opportunities available in the NFT space and practical information on how street artists can get into it. Today, we start at the beginning: Translating Street Art to NFTs. If you've listened to a...

Vidam is a Berlin-based visual artist and illustrator, painting crazy characters in funny scenes with a distinct, colourful aesthetic with sharp angles and straight lines.  Always drawing in his young years, Vidam studied graphic design in Berlin, where he met graffiti artists and fell into a world exploring abandoned buildings, developing his spraypaint skills and ultimately creating the artistic...

Ania Pilipenko is the Founder and CEO of Metawalls.io, an NFT platform bringing Berlin's street art to the Metaverse. Metawalls is a very cool company, the first-ever to bring street art into the Metaverse, displaying Berlin's real street art pieces to walls in an open-air space online. But, as we discuss, there's also a helluva lot more to it than that.  Blossoming out of the lockdown, the origin...

Jodee Knowles and Creon - partners in life and art - discuss their upcoming show, Dream Demon, launching in Tokyo at Gallery ETHER tomorrow - the 12th of November. In their debut international duo exhibition and NFT launch, Jodee and Creon join forces for an epic blending of styles, where Creon's meaningful, dark exploration of pop art juxtaposes the big-eyed, deeply emotive fantastical characters...

Dscreet is an artist and filmmaker best known to street art fans for his iconic owl characters that can be found worldwide. Beyond his street art and graffiti, though, Dscreet is a highly acclaimed filmmaker and creative of all expressions who's been honing his skills for some 30 years, building quality relationships with other creatives and exploring how different mediums can broaden the audience...

On this episode of our Art NFT Insights series, Steph sits down with Sébastien Rouby, Co-Founder of Streetlab.io, to discuss NFT utilities.  You know when you get an NFT, and it gives you access to a special Discord channel? Or you buy an NFT that doubles as an outfit or tool within a game. These are utilities. And the possibilities of what these can be and how they can be applied are endless.  Th...

Bilos is an illustrator and street artist who painted his first wall when he was just 12 years old. Since then, he has gone on to become a huge name in the international street art scene, recognisable for his murals exploring illustration, ceramics and abstraction.  Stradling the digital illustration and public painting worlds, Bilos developed a Digital Daydreams concept where he would photograph...

Kerstin Gold is a digital transformation and business model innovation advisor to art tech startups and established art organisations. It's fair to say she's on the frontlines of the art tech intersection and was privy to all the early NFT hype and criticism from the art world.  Seeking to find facts amongst the speculation, Kerstin and Co-Founders produced the first ever research into the art NFT...