{"id":7,"date":"2011-01-20T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/?p=7"},"modified":"2011-01-26T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:14:29","slug":"stik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/stik\/","title":{"rendered":"Stik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4129\/5148060599_786d5cd01a_b.jpg\" alt=\"Stik\" width=\"580\" height=\"869\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4061\/5148064173_e817f4e0b4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Stik\" width=\"581\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pull-quote\"><p>Beauty is in movement. That\u2019s what it\u2019s about. Beauty is about  the way  that someone moves their body. You can tell by someone\u2019s walk  if  they\u2019re angry, whether they\u2019re happy or if they\u2019ve just eaten. You  can  tell a lot about someone just by the way they\u2019re moving their back  or  their eyes. There doesn\u2019t 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\u2019re walking in  an  aggressive way or if they\u2019re someone you know. That\u2019s what I\u2019m  trying to  capture in my work \u2013 that direct recognition<\/p><cite class=\"author\"> &mdash; Stik, in Little London Observationalist, 6 December  2009  <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1318\/5113749559_cb7c32ed56_b.jpg\" alt=\"Stik\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4111\/5113750775_c98da6af84_b.jpg\" alt=\"Stik\" width=\"586\" height=\"389\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4029\/5080807401_1a47a87cd4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Stik\" width=\"580\" height=\"872\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4087\/5080805887_8a4405c049_b.jpg\" alt=\"Stik\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4067\/5080793325_7a9aeb3c47_b.jpg\" alt=\"Stik\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4149\/5081392556_45889e0297_b.jpg\" alt=\"Stik\" width=\"580\" height=\"872\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5296\/5389759359_818f0dd9c9_b.jpg\" alt=\"Stik\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s supersize, bright street art adorning shop shutters and walls. Stik people initally began to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/stik\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-londonstreetartists","p1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streetartlondon.co.uk\/artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}