FAILE - Pioneer in Contemporary Street Art

Faile, the Street Art duo comprised of Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller (American, b.1975; b.1976) formed their Brooklyn-based multimedia collaborative in 1999. They have conjured a wide array of works over the years, using original iconography and appropriating images from mass media. Faile began covering building exteriors with pioneering techniques in wheatpasting and stenciling, before expanding their repertoire to paintings, collage, prints, and sculpture.

Their works draw inspiration from comic books, pulp fiction novels and even Yellow Pages adverts. There are however a number of concepts which underlie Faile’s gritty pop culture graphics, most notably of these is dualism. “There has always been an attempt to embrace the idea of duality in our work. Love/Hate, Peace/War, Violence/Beauty. This has a distinct place in the world we live and can always be felt as a constant push and pull”. - Miller

URBAN STREET ART - INKFETISH

Some cool street murals from London-based artist Tom Blackford, aka Inkfetish. “Getting into street art was a natural process,” he says. “I started out playing around with graffiti in my teens, then in my early 20’s, I met people that really inspired me to start realizing my illustrations on a bigger scale.”

Inspired by Japanese comics, he has a dark sense of humour that permeates many of his characters.

Tom’s distinct colour palette, often twisted subject matter, technique and bold themes continue to resonate with a growing audience.

STREET ART BY PHLEGM

Phlegm is born in North Wales. Phlegm is well known for his self-published comics and street art.

Street-artist Phlegm lives and works in Sheffield, England, more than 150 miles from trendy London, but his engraving-inspired reclamations of dilapidated walls and spaces deserve a wider audience.

Phlegm started keeping sketchbooks during his fine art degree 15 years ago to deal with the stuffiness of the course. After he graduated he felt that his art stagnated. Phlegm was inspired looking back at his sketchbooks; the relief of sketching to stomach his degree became his new work, which he enjoyed. He became a full-time comic illustrator, producing and selling comics from his home in Sheffield.

Phlegm's name derives from classical medicine, where the body was thought to have four main fluids (or humours). If you had too much phlegm in the system it was thought to lead to apathy. Comics were a release for Phlegm and a way to enjoy art again. His name acknowledged that fact, plus it was unusual, fitting his comics.

NYCHOS THE WEIRD - Some Extracts of his Amazing Work

The Austrian Illustrator and Graffiti artist NYCHOS, who is mainly known for his prolific street art concept the Rabbit Eye Movement, is set to rock the foundations of the London establishment, combining his original comic styling with heavy metal attitude.