SIDRON - A Street Artist From Athens

Sidron‘s illustrated gas masks on Athenian walls evoke an urban guerilla like ambiance. Along with the Jnor, Kapone and NDA crews, artists like Sidron have been around for a long time. They’ve always been underground. 

The gas mask has been incorporated into the popular iconography as a symbol of danger, war and pollution. As such, it is being used in street art, usually as an image that protests against these condition. 

DREYK The Pirate: A Unique Graffiti Artist from Athens

Dreyk started painting the streets of Athens 13 years ago in his early teens. A few years later, he started forming his ever recognizable sea-themed style. Influenced by his studies in design, amongst other things, he evolved to a more clean cut-thick stroke style as years went by. Why the sea? Well, almost all greeks have a deep love for the sea and travel, and Dreyk is no exception. In his case though, as it usually happens, it all started by accident. Painting his first pirate on a wall many years ago, people started calling him “pirate”, a fact that helped him find his own identity in street art.

Often using only blue and white paint, Dreyk creates a beautiful intersection of greek tradition and contemporary creativity, inviting athenians passing by to his dream world, directly evoking emotions of innocence and restlessness – ultimately stating that life, love, Athens – it’s all beautiful, it’s all simple. These virtues are thriving not only in Dreyk’s graffiti work, but in his work as an illustrator / visual designer as well. Indeed, even though he has managed to become well known from a very early age (working as a graffiti artist for athenian clubs and hotels), he prefers to remain a “pirate” as far as graffiti is concerned. It’s a part of him that will always be his hobby and not his profession – he makes his living working successfully in the publishing field.

The KRAH – Greek street artist

The KRAH was born in the UK and raised in Athens.
He is a self taught artist that started drawing from a very young age.

In his teens he started painting in the streets of Athens. Doing his first murals with spray paint in 1997, he quickly became one of the most noted Greek street-Artists, not only in Greece, but internationally through his tours around Europe and Asian countries such as Japan and Thailand.

He started his working career doing murals, before moving on to illustrating magazines and books, and then working for advertising agencies. Later he moved on to working for fashion companies. It remains clear that his passion for street art underpinned all of his work and led him into creating work for galleries.

HIT – Athens street bombing kings.

In one of the most heavily bombed capitals of Europe, one crew stands above the other’s. HIT CREW pure Athens terror.

WD – Wild Drawing.

A charismatic guy coming from Bali, situated for now in Athens gives as a new vibe. Deeply politically influenced, with tones of style in his hands he has been dominating the Athenean walls for some years now. By avoiding publicity and leaving his work speak for him WD has manages to convey his revolutionary vibe. Enjoy!