Interview with: Enves

SIMPLE SIX

1. Besides art & music what else drives you?

beside art & music? is there anything else hahahahaha....well I guess only other things I can add is money/women/mates and drink

2. Favourite character from the Muppets?

Beaker or the Swedish chef

3. Window or isle?

Isle, hate having to climbing over people for a piss and I do love a drink or few

4. 3 favourite colours to use?

atm...black/white/pink

5. First thing on your mind most mornings?

"fuck you alarm!"...."snooze"

6. Favourite artist to collaborate with?

well depends how you look at it....
who I would like to collaboration with...kid zoom, id love to watch him work...
favourite who I have worked with...well I cant pick 1 so you get 3.... Rubiks/ Yes/ Skewr





DOWN to BUSINESS

• What style of art do you create & where did it start for you?

I’m into most of the elements of street art/ graffiti.. stickers/ wheatpastes and spray work...started doing more stickers and wheat pastes but doesn’t seem to earn as much respect as spray work, so I’ve been practicing more on that the last 12 months.. mainly characters as I feel more at home with them...I started painting about 94 but stopped for about 13 years


• Who was your main inspiration at the start?

well at the start I was inspired by Perth painters dash and Shime, world class painter...what inspired me the 2nd time round was sticker artists mainly, my mate Rubik’s has a chilled house were we can paint so that got me back into spraying..


• What are you trying to say or create with your art?

Mainly interesting characters, something that makes you smile or think..


• Where have you taken your art or had it put up?

well so far vie had things up in Iran/south Africa Canada and UK...want to get up more in different places.. going global you know!


• How have you used your art to change your lifestyle?

art has influenced my life heaps in the last 12 months, I’ve been a Dj at clubs/pubs/raves for about 15years now and that’s even taken a bit of a back seat...when I have time its spent round mates practicing on boards or walls...I’ve found a lot of legal work, so a lot of my weekends are spent painting


• How does the community benefit from your art?

its free/colourful and creative...better than a bland brick wall


• With the boom of urban art & the many classifications such as street art, graffiti, bombers. . How do you view these styles & what would you like to say about them?

well I find anything that uses more than 1 colour is more creative and draws more attention, even if its a throwie or whatever...I’m not the biggest fan of hand styles/tags, some have talent and look outstanding...the other 90% I just find as vandalism...people don’t see the artist side of tags,,

ok ok ok
as we have come to the end...
just some shouts out..

respect goes to Rubik’s for getting me back into painting and giving me some walls to practice, shouts out to yes n Toni for having me round and practicing...big shouts go to all the Perth and Australian writers, and to the Deviant Art members..
keep up the madness!

Chor Boogie painting in Sydney

Chor Boogie speakin' real & painting on May's Lane. . .

Interview with: Bundy One

Artist of 'Clockwork' on World Graffiti. .

SIMPLE SIX

1. Besides art & music what else drives you?
Creativity on all levels and the pursuing of as much knowledge as I can get.

2. Favourite character from the Muppets?
The two critic blokes who sit in the stands and start positive then end up negative or vice a versa.

3. Window or isle?
Depending on where and who I'm with I don't mind. If someone is with me and hasn't seen the area and I have, window for them.

4. 3 favourite colours to use?
white,milka montana gold and pink lemonade montana black. these will change by tomorrow.

5. First thing on your mind most mornings?
"Why do I get up at 540am for a shit job, and I hope I see panels when going passed waterfall".

6. Favourite artist to collaborate with?
Vel, Fews, Stain and Relic, Yfuk and Sour and Math...They are great people and fun to collaborate with. Stain reinvigorated me when I was thinking about stopping. Word SdAWg & getting up with Daddy Meins and Dirty Doctor Mles.





DOWN to BUSINESS

• What style of art do you create & where did it start for you?
I do 3D, it started because I had to stop doing trains from too many arrests and my age these days (coff coff) so I started doing 3d's because I had pushed all my other styles I was doing to what I thought was the max for them and only had 3d to do.95% of all my pieces are freestyle. I don't like taking a sketch.


• Who was your main inspiration at the start?
I live in Wollongong so when I started I only saw old school bombing and pieces by Poker and FDK crew (I never ever got to meet them) but I was very young then and didn't know or meet any other writers for close to ten years of writing because of demographics and home life.


• What are you trying to say or create with your art?
I am trying to create something different and it has to be "freestyle" every time I pick up a can or marker. Style is what I'm about and when I finally get stagnant I will give it up. But I want to create things that are different from everyone out there and Hopefully I am achieving this but if I'm not I don't mind either because I'm happy with my shit.I have never sent a photo to the magazines ever.


• Where have you taken your art or had it put up?
Trains, trains, trains, trains, trains but I’ve had a few things in the Canberra National Gallery in the late 90's and one or two pissy canvases here and there. I do a lot of canvases constantly but have never been asked or pursued the gallery route. Maybe I might make that this years challenge?


• How have you used your art to change your lifestyle?
Well it has made me very open minded and given me a different outlook on life, but at the same time it is what I have dedicated my whole life to which has cost me a lot in my personal and professional life too...So now I try and find a happy medium between my personal life and my relationships instead of giving it all up for graffiti.


• How does the community benefit from your art?
When we do our stuff we are tidying up the spots most times. I have done so much community art and legal’s I stopped doing it because I was becoming what I always said I wouldn't become Artist wise.


• With the boom of urban art & the many classifications such as street art, graffiti, bombers. . How do you view these styles & what would you like to say about them?
I don't like a lot of the above classification styles because a lot of them are generic and unoriginal but I appreciate good style and conceptual works. I will leave it at that.... hmmmmm



•Would you call most of it art?
Would I call most of it art?
Yes its all art no matter what. It gets its classifications (Art or Vandalism) due to the standard of which one does his trade. People rate Abstract Art when one cant see what's in it or what's going on but they are quick to downgrade wacky toy tags or the rest of the Art form. Not everyone can just grab a can and get up, I mean they can... but you know it when you see it. As long as one is having fun painting no matter what or the standard of work that is being produced, that is what its about, the classification is meaningless then because Art should be about self expression not what others think...





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