Last week I was up in Brisbane to speak at Analogue/Digital

While I was there I painted this wall with Beastman & Numskull

I’m very happy to share that the New VNA mag is out and I have a feature.

All the info below:

Very Nearly Almost is proud to release its twenty-first issue. And it’s pretty special being the first to have a female as a cover artist; and who better to take this highly coveted position than the queen of street art herself Miss Van.

Her beautiful hand-painted “poupees” and vivid sexual creatures have been capturing the hearts of art lovers and for years and after a brief hiatus from working on the streets, she’s back in full force. We caught up with her to delve a little deeper into the mind of a lady who has blazed a trail through this macho graffiti world.

This issue is bursting with interviews – from the Ever-Fresh crew member Rone, monochromatic illustrative master Joe Fenton and street art new-comer NoseGo. We also have pearls of wisdom from those who have been on the scene since its inception, like Inkie, photographer Alex Fakso and Canadian artist Johnny Crap who also took the time to design our latest subscriber t-shirt . We caught up with a few other influential ladies including graffiti artist Mad-C and stencilist Amanda Marie, as well as illustrative duo Wurstbande from Berlin. There’s also something a bit different from another duo, husband and wife Dal & Faith47 who chose to interview each other. If this wasn’t enough you can also find interviews with queen of crochet, Olek, and the brilliant Nicolas le Borgne, a.k.a Odö – as well as a look at what’s been going on in the streets of London, Detroit and Japan.

Buy Here More pics here

A wall I painted with some local kids in Vanuatu.

There was no real plan to this I just asked if I could paint this wall and I thought it would be great to get the kids to help. I marked up the outlines and was surrounded by the local kids so I gave them paint brushes and put them to work.

It was hectic with so many people to paint the same thing but it was an incredible opportunity to meet and work with people from a different culture.

Word spread fast about the wall and at one stage we had 50+ people watching us paint, even the local paper came down.

Thanks to everyone I met, and a special thanks to all those who helped:

Sarau, Ramsei, Trokpa, Antony, Taumae, Cassandra, Sarrin, Kallfow, Kalsaf, Brownie, Joshua, Henry, Brenden, Nya, Silou, Steven, Ton, John, Calov, Frank, Mano, Katia, Winnie, Larrisa, Morine, Sunita, Calof, Alice, Matt, Lucy, Ella, Furutan

Port Vila, Vanuatu – Rone – 2013 from Everfresh Studio on Vimeo.

  

Thanks to Anthony from Fatlaces for his amazing pics that just got published in Honolulu mag

Can’t wait for next year!

OK i’m a bit late in posting this but I’m guessing plenty of you have seen it.

On June 30, I was Lucky enough to get a mention on page 3 of The Age. You can see the full article here

I somehow got a nice mention in the Sunday age

Pic stolen from Kompond

Thanks to Twoone for spotting some of my work done In Asakusa in the background of this clip:

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Iv’e been popping up in all sorts places on the net lately, here are a few notable ones:

over here for a quick interview I did for Stussy

And this nice Feature here from Neo Collective

And big thanks to Starklife for putting up with my lack of response time on their questions

Vandalog just put up a Q & A I did for Young & Free

See it here

Paul Barbera is an interior based photographer and he drop in a few weeks ago and took these stunning pics of our studio

See the full set here