ZLY - Street Art is a mere Physical Representation

Diego ZELAYA aka ZLY was born in Mexico City in 1990. Moved to Britain to study Fine Art – 2007. Studied at UWIC – 2012.

His Art  practice functions as a personal journey to try to explore and understand the human being. Trying to get rid of signs that give away time and culture, trying to strip bare a human and understand what we are under such social imprints is crucial for him. Art is a mere physical representation of what he is trying to find in humans. All artwork is freehand, no stencils were used in the making.

ROA – The street art activist.

Roa, a hugely talented Belgian street artist from Ghent, is renowned for his giant black and white animal street art. Roa started off in the street art scene painting animals on abandoned buildings and warehouses in the isolated industrial areas of his hometown. Today, Roa’s animals may be found slumbering on the sides of semi derilict buildings and peering out from shop shutters in citiy streets all accross the world from New York to Berlin and Warsaw to Paris.

The artist has visited London a couple of times, each time leaving his mark. His animals can be seen hibernating across the cracks of walls in Shoreditch and Brick Lane.  The works often take many hours to paint due to the huge scale and highly intricate nature of ROA’s street art. Consequently, most of his pieces are done with permission which means that his work usually sticks around on the street for a while (notwithstanding the efforts of local London Councils).