Learn to stencil with CRISP
LEARN TO STENCIL WITH CRISP WORKSHOP - $40 + booking fee
Saturday 1 October 10am - 12noon, Wester Gallery
16 Wood Street, Newcastle
Suitable for 15+ years and over
An introduction to stencils with stencil artist CRISP. Get hands-on and learn how to cut and spray stencils.
Learn the skills to create your own stencils, how to create ‘bridges’ and killer aerosol skills. Participants aren't required to have drawing skills to participate. Workshop covers all materials and participants will create a stencil artwork to take home.
Strictly limited spaces.
ABOUT CRISP
@crispstreetart
CRISP’s love of street art was ignited in the UK and fully realised on the streets of Bogota, Colombia. Splitting his time between Coffs Harbour and Sydney, he depicts bright, powerful images of wildlife and people, his work highlights the loss and dislocation of the natural world in urban environments. Via his urban interventions, he encourages open discussion and critical thinking about the problems our world faces.
He was born to artist parents, and grew up in rural Australia. From a very young age he drew, painted, sculpted, pottered, carved, photographed and created anything he could as a form of personal expression. After studying and working in Sydney, He spent over 10 years living, working, traveling and creating art in the UK, Europe, Asia, North and South America before settling in Bogota, Colombia. This amazingly vibrant, chaotic and “street art” mecca inspired CRISP to start expressing himself on walls rather than more traditional mediums. He had always loved graffiti and street art and photographed it whenever he could but actually creating street art himself reinvigorated his love of art!
He has never looked back since, giving people in the street something more interesting to look at, through the use of stickers, bombing stencils, paste ups, ceramic street masks, carvings, posters, murals and more. CRISP believes in communities reclaiming the street aesthetic as their own from capitalist advertising, corporate slogans and even just the mundane boring obsession of sterile grey concrete walls, city councils tend to prefer today!
His street art can vary from the purely aesthetic to the very thought provoking socio-political. He has always disliked the academicization of art, and thinks that artwork shouldn’t have to be justified through words or meanings. He thinks art should be predominately interpreted by the viewing individual not through words describing it in a gallery or museum. As art can mean different things to different people and cultures, and this is the beauty of art, it can transcend language.
In previous years he has combined his love of travel and street art by putting works up in London, New York, Miami, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Alaska, and Colombia.