Stik has been creating Stik people around London for over ten years and anyone who has wandered around Shoreditch recently will have been greated by Stik’s supersize, bright street art adorning shop shutters and walls. Stik people initally began to appear in Hackney Wick and in recent years marched westward to Shoreditch and the rest of London.
Stik people, although androgenous and constructed from simple shapes, are nevertheless capable of conveying complex body language and emotion. These themes of human emotion and expression are infused in Stik’s brightly coloured street art. Stik, the street artist, himself was homeless for a period and ideas surrounding human vulnerability are also detectable in his art.
“Beauty is in movement. That’s what it’s about. Beauty is about the way that someone moves their body. You can tell by someone’s walk if they’re angry, whether they’re happy or if they’ve just eaten. You can tell a lot about someone just by the way they’re moving their back or their eyes. There doesn’t need to be a great deal of detail there. You can see it from across the road. You can see someone silhouetted against a white wall in the night and check whether they’re walking in an aggressive way or if they’re someone you know. That’s what I’m trying to capture in my work – that direct recognition” – Stik, in Little London Observationalist, 6 December 2009
Check out Street Art London’s Stik photos from all over London after the jump.
Check out more street artists at Street Art London’s ‘Artists’ site here at streetartlondon.co.uk/artists.
Great work! Sunny regards from BERLIN
Those kinds of drawings is not really known before and because there are so many anime and different famous characters that already in the internet I never thought that there were still people that like those kinds of art. However, that simple art is amazing, despite of being just like grade school art it still cute and attractive; I can say that it’s so entertaining.
Really awesome
I’m an ordinary working class, black single parent of 3 girls, & I absolutely LOVE your work. I live in east London & my children & I often walk or travel along routes where your art is present & it just brightens up our day. We often just stop & admire them & talk about what the oh so cute characters must be thinking or feeling. It’s always so disappointing to go back & find one of your wonderful pieces of street art has been removed. I would love to see your work displayed in schools & playgrounds. My children & I think you’re amazing & would love you to do our garden wall? 🙂
Can each Stik street art be captioned so we know exactly where they are? I’d love to have a look! (I recognise a couple of them – he is now doing more in Dulwich but where exactly?)
It’s pretty one dimensional. It will be interesting to see if he can evolve and take this somewhere.
don’t think he needs help with it
i just love it indeed ;O)
greetz from berlin 2 london
So nice to meet you in the streets ny keep up the great work
A friend (Jeane) posted some of your work and its brilliant the street art you do !!…keep it up I live in Bradford area ….some of the young ones that do the art !! are good,, but then we have the ones that just put swear words on !!…..like your art work top marks ….
Is it possible to contact Stik for an art project please ?
well done your paintings are amazing !
I like stik work please can you sent information about him