Urban Art Association

quality, picked up #8, great value +1

A couple of new original canvases by Rowdy available at
www.art-el.co.uk

Rowdy’s artistic career has been relentless; establishing in 1987 when he became an integral part of the Bristol graffiti scene (in which he is still remains instrumental), his work appears throughout Europe and can be found in the most unlikely places, from underground rural settings to highly visible urban reaches.

Rowdy’s trademark crocodiles are often huge in scale and are indicative of the playful nature of the imagery in his work, and long may we continue to see oversized mice and crocs attacking our walls. The last few years have seen him collaborate with cohorts Cyclops & Sweet toof resulting in one of the most widespread bombing campaigns seen in the UK’s capital in the last decade.

His recent cityscape paintings take on a meditative quality which is in total contrast to the short sharp shock of his urban graffiti work. It also shows an artist who has ultimately mastered the medium of the spraycan, and his abstract cityscapes take his commercial work to another level.

Dwelling literally in the underground, Rowdy uses graffiti as a tool of resistance.
Deeply politically motivated, his work is on permanent display in Spain, Italy, France and England in both public and private collections