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Shepard Fairey has been the unofficial ambassador of Street Art and Urban Art for nearly 30 years. His influence on the art world, art market, and pop culture in general is undeniable. But what does it take to maintain such longevity at the top? How must one shift and maneuver through changes in public opinion, and economic peaks and valleys? Perhaps the answer is to stay the course, be true to yo...

Australia’s most decorated stencil artist ELK has spent over 20 years perfecting his craft.  His predominantly hand cut photorealistic stencil work, ranging in subject matter from political and controversial to satirical and lighthearted, have landed him numerous awards and art prizes including being the first stencil artists named as a finalist for the Archibold Awards, Australias most prestigiou...

After graduating from art college with a concentration in painting, Sophi Odling switched lanes and began working in the fashion industry where she thrived and progressed for over a decade. Following the birth of her first child however, Sophi realised that she was thirsty for something different out of life, inspiring her to leave the world of fashion and return to painting.  This decision would...

Graffiti artists Pichi and Avo met while painting graffiti in Valencia Spain in the early 2000s.  Their similar aesthetics and desire to push their work into a new direction brought them together and in 2007 they officially joined forces to created the now legendary duo PichiAvo.  The group’s shared training in fine art and love of graffiti coupled with a desire to blend the two led to the develop...

Kitsune Jolene is a Belgian artist with a heavy presence on the mural scene for nearly a decade taking part in various mural festivals and events across the globe at a staggering pace. With her beautifully specific color pallet and whimsical storytelling her work has been described as visually poetic and deeply intimate.  After interning for a local mural festival in Belgium she discovered her lov...

Mad C is without a doubt one of the most influential and respected graffiti and mural artists in the world.  As an early pioneer of the first wave of German graffiti writers in the early 90’s, she was not only pushing gender boundaries in a mostly male dominated landscape, she also pushed boundaries of technique, style, themes, and generally what was considered even possible with a spray can drivi...

One of Austin Texas’s top graffiti writers and muralists, Mez Data has been painting walls for as long as he can remember.  What started as mostly letter based graffiti shifted into characters and portraits and these days, with decades of experience, Mez can confidently paint anything imaginable.  His murals and canvas work, all done exclusively with spray paint, have a unique consistency through...

Loretta Lizzio is an Australian painter and muralist whose work draws on themes of femininity, strength, sensuality, nature, and mysticism among other things.  After a traumatic bus accident in her late 20’s derailed her from her life path for nearly a year and a half, her world simultaneously fell apart and began to take its full form.  Multiple surgeries helped her regain her physical functionin...

Ledania is one of the most unique and lovely people you will some day hopefully have the opportunity to meet if you haven’t already.  Born and raised in Columbia South America, Ledania’s colourful personality and appearance are mirrored in her work. Although seemingly opposite, her hard mostly black punk rock fashion aesthetic and her explosively colorful and somewhat feminine artwork both express...

If you know anything about Australian street art and muralism than you know about Everfresh Studio and it’s enormous impact on the Australian and specifically Melbourne art scene.  You might also know that for over a decade Mike Makatron has been the senior member and even director of Everfresh, lending opportunity and influence to countless artists who have called the space home over the years. ...

Sandra Powell and Andrew King better known globally as SANDREW began collecting street art, or as they accurately like to specify, “artwork made by street artists” in mid 2000's.  What started out as a frenetic fascination has grown into a long obsession and lifestyle shift which has resulted in the accumulation of Australia’s largest collection of street art and has them in the running for possib...

The cartoon characters of your childhood, just like you, have grown up, lived life, experienced trauma, succumbed to addiction, found Jesus, have deviant fantasies, and just like you… they’re working on it.  This is the world that Australian pop artist Ben Frost has created over his 30 year art career.  His hybrid art intertwines pop art aesthetics, (flat colors and pop culture imagery) with a dar...

Mexican born artist Ricardo González, better know by his artists name ‘It’s A Living’ has been traveling and painting around the globe for a very long time.  From a small town in central northern Mexico he headed to Canada to study graphic design, followed by a post graduate degree in Typeface Design in New York City.  With a solid foundation established, he naturally took a job as a graphic desig...

MVP back again. basically when we cross paths with past guests, we sit them down and catch up with Vantagepoint Alumni on what they been doing since we last spoke to them. This time recorded during Wall to Wall festival in Mordialloc  in Victoria, Australia in 2024,  this interview series is loose, irreverent and occasionally drunken. This episode features SMUG, JASON PARKER, DREZ and GEORGE ROSE....

As a founding member of the world renowned DMV collective (Da Mental Vaporz) BLO hit the urban art scene with the momentum of a freight train.  His stylised figurative work was sweet and dark, cute and grotesque, and heavily influenced by his background in graffiti.  A few years after moving from Paris to Berlin however, a shift emerged in his work.  The figures and representational elements faded...

Somewhere between reality and a dream, the work of French artist ZOER defies the laws of physics, pushing the viewer just slightly beyond the point of comfort, which is exactly what makes his work so exciting.  His color palette and forced perspectives challenge you to bend your understanding of what ‘should be’ and simply accept its beauty for what it is.  Playing with themes of urban sprawl, con...

Aboriginal artist Tommy Day carries a heavy load that might be too much for most artists to manage.  His rich personal heritage and upbringing however have embedded him with the strength and grace that make him the perfect person for the task.  As a contemporary artists working within traditional Aboriginal frameworks going back tens of thousands of years, Day encapsulates his culture and their va...

Insane51 has developed a mind bending painting style that incorporates double exposure images painted exclusively in red and blue (pink and cyan to be exact) showing two images at once.  When viewed through a red or blue filter, like the two lenses of traditional 1950’s style 3D movie glasses, the viewer is able to isolate parts of the painting while everything else becomes invisible.  By flipping...

One of Australia’s most recognisable muralist and contemporary artists Adnate, has managed to thread a needle that few other artists have been able to pull off with such grace.  As a non-native person, Adnate’s paintings and large scale murals focus mainly on indigenous people and culture, a combination with inherent potential for conflict or misstep.  His sensitive approach and altruistic intent...

MVP back again. basically when we cross paths with past guests, we sit them down and catch up with Vantagepoint Alumni on what they been doing since we last spoke to them. This time recorded during a short visit to the rural town of Benalla in Victoria, Australia in 2024,  this interview series is loose, irreverent and ever increasingly drunken. This episode features BUFF DISS, DXTR and REKA. 

To hear the full unedited version, visit Vantagepointradio.com To see someone paint a graffiti piece with no prior planning and no sketch and have it turn out really good at the end is impressive no matter how familiar you are with writing graffiti.  But to paint a large scale mural from a lift with no sketch, no plan, using both hands, and filming yourself while you do it… and have it turn out re...

MVP back again after a long hiatus.. basically when we cross paths with past guests, we sit them down and catch up with Vantagepoint Alumni on what they been doing since we last spoke to them. Recorded during the inaugural Vantagepoint Group exhibition at Denverwalls 2022,  this interview series is loose, irreverent and ever increasingly drunken. This episode features DULK and Squidlicker. Needles...

To hear the full unedited version, visit Vantagepointradio.com The only thing more delightful and colorful than the work of George F. Baker III is the huge smile and good energy the man himself brings into every room he enters.  His artwork reflects his personality, bounding with intricate design and color and full of positivity and witty life affirmations. After a successful but unfulfilling care...

To hear the full unedited version, visit Vantagepointradio.com Dublin’s finest, ACHES is a man of many talents. As one of the leading graffiti artists in Ireland, ACHES has been pushing the art form in new and Inovative directions for years, incorporating his graphic design training and embracing technology to access new creative avenues conceptually in his work.  Around 2017 ACHES began incorpora...

To hear the full unedited version, visit Vantagepointradio.com With a name like Kimchi Juice you just can’t go wrong. The young artist from Washington DC, much like the name she’s given herself, leaves you with more questions than answers the longer you speak with her… but in all the best ways. From the age of 13, Kimchi Juice knew with full determination that she was an artist, so much so that sh...