After quitting art and bartending in New York, ELLE, an artist formerly known as ELLE, returned to the street art scene. She rose to prominence, collaborating with major brands and creating large-scale artworks, including one that will cover the hull of a Norwegian cruise liner.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.After earning degrees from Paris to Massachusetts, the artist now known as ELLE found her work consigned to an all-too-common fate. “Everything was getting rolled up and put under my bed and just dying. It was like this graveyard of paintings.”
in Australia. There’s a whole room dedicated to the British street artist in the exhibition, including a new piece that hasn’t been seen before. The show will also feature works perhaps less familiar to local audiences that merit the kind of serious attention street art demands today.Mathew Eller The same can be said of Everfresh, the Melbourne studio founded in 2004 and home to some of Melbourne’s most prominent street artists. “Everfresh always had a bedroom, so any artist that came in could stay there,” ELLE says.
But street art has always been public art, in a sense – the only difference is who pays for the paint. It’s fitting that the city that spawned democracy is also one of the most heavily graffitied: Athens is plastered with political statements that are then answered by others, and as the responses build, you can’t help but feel as though entire debates are taking place in public. Which, to some, is the point of art.
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