Stik is a British

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ist based in

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. He is known for painting large

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Overview

Stik paints

-like people as

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 ...

. He began in London, working in its northeast area of Hackney, especially in

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, "and now paints murals all over the world in Europe, Asia and America." He liaises at the

Central Saint Martins Central Saint Martins is a public tertiary art school in London, England. It is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a variety of shor ...

''Graffiti Dialogues'' and has been funded to run graffiti workshops. He has worked with

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, the

Mutoid Waste Company The Mutoid Waste Company are a performance arts group founded in London, England by Joe Rush and Robin Cooke in collaboration with Alan P Scott and Joshua Bowler. It started in the early 1980s, emerging from Frestonia's 'Car Breaker Gallery'. They ...

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, and

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. He paints unauthorised art as well as pieces that are authorised. In 2011, Stik had a solo show at

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, a gallery in London's West End. In 2012, he worked in

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, southeast London in collaboration with curator

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, where he recreated

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paintings in his own style that were exhibited in

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. This led to further street artists including

Conor Harrington Conor Harrington (born 1980) is an Irish street/graffiti artist based in London, England. Overview Harrington is known for both his street work and also more recently his gallery work. Early life Conor Harrington was born in Cork, Ireland, in ...

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Mear One Mear One (born 1971 as Kalen Ockerman) is an American artist based in Los Angeles, known for his often-political street graffiti art. Mear One is associated with CBS (Can't Be Stopped – City Bomb Squad) and WCA (West Coast Artist) crews. As a g ...

Thierry Noir Thierry Noir (born 1958) is a French artist and muralist based in Berlin. He is considered the first artist to paint the Berlin Wall in the 1980s. He created brightly-colored paintings across large spans of the Berlin Wall and some of these ori ...

Francisco Rodrigues da Silva Francisco Rodrigues da Silva also known as "Nunca" is a Brazilian artist who uses a graffiti technique to create images that confront modern urban Brazil with its native past. His name Nunca ("Never" in Portuguese) is an affirmation of his determ ...

(Nunca),

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James Reka James Reka (aka "REKA" and "Reka One") is a street artist from Melbourne, Australia, later based in Berlin, Germany. Reka first started as a graffiti artist in the 1990s, moving to street art including large murals later. His work is in the perma ...

(Reka One), Remi Rough and System, and ROA, becoming involved to form the

Dulwich Outdoor Gallery Dulwich Outdoor Gallery (DOG) is a collection of street art in south London, with works based on traditional paintings in Dulwich Picture Gallery. The DOG was established by Ingrid Beazley, a pioneer of promoting street art. The Dulwich Stre ...

of street art around the Dulwich area in 2013. In February 2013 he collaborated with Noir in Shoreditch. In April 2012, the ''

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'' reported that "he was living in a St Mungo’s hostel for the homeless last year as he prepared for his first gallery show." In March 2013 Stik gave away poster copies of his art via ''

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.'' The

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said at the time that in "the last two years, Stik's fame has grown with celebrity endorsements and rising auction prices. One of his works, a sculpture titled ‘Up On The Roof’, fetched £150,000 at auction.

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*''Stik.''

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, 2015. .

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* {{Authority control Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Artists from London English graffiti artists

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