Eyesaw is a UK-based

street art Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility. It has been associated with the terms "independent art", "post-graffiti", "neo-graffiti" and guerrilla art. Street art has evolved from the early forms of defiant graff ...

ist best known for subverting advertisement posters found in London

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s, often using simple silhouettes with amusing anecdotes.

Early life

There is not much information regarding eyesaw's private life or real identity. Eyesaw traces his graffiti career back to his primary school days. "When I was about 7 years old, another kid and I were bored at lunch time. We did not want to play outside in the rain with the other kids, so we entered our classroom unattended and found the

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s. We then emptied them onto the floor and painted the whole floor with our feet. As you could imagine, it was very slippery, so naturally we slipped and fell. Later, we were both caught because we were covered head to toe in paint. We were later punished by the headmaster. To this day, I feel the injustice; we were only expressing ourselves. This might have been the start of my disregard for authority and my love of graffiti."

Work

In 2008 nine artists including Eyesaw, were commissioned to paint a high-profile graffiti mural in the

Royal Albert Hall The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London. One of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings, it is held in trust for the nation and managed by a registered charity which receives no govern ...

depicting the building's 138-year history, and displaying images of some of the most notable figures to have graced its stage, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Muhammad Ali and Luciano Pavarotti. His work to date comprises subverting advertisement posters found in London bus shelters, often using simple silhouettes with amusing anecdotes. "I aim to make the viewer question their surroundings and the world we live in and their role in society. By placing my work in prime advertising space the passer-by is almost fooled into believing my work is an advert selling more shit they don’t need. As my work offers no explanation as to what is being sold, the viewer is made to ask their own questions and draw their own conclusions. As a result I gain great satisfaction knowing I have removed a crap advert from circulation and replaced it with one of my works and just maybe open someone’s eyes to society’s downfalls".

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