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Boe

All of the artwork on this page has been created by Boe, who is our July Editor's Pick Artist

Please feel free to email Boe at: d.b@bewareofeverything.com

Boe

long

Crow Scale

Crow finished

Ada Street

Bloomsbury

Cambs

butterfly

Sunny Days

Cambs

Boe was born in the concrete jungle of Middlesbrough, and ever since has had a desire to make walls look nicer. His work utilizes both stencil and freehand techniques, with a focus on the use of color to express his thoughts. Boe’s work is often colorful and playful, with a subtle darker edge that portrays the darker side of his imagination.

The crow has been created with another artist, Irony, who has a talent for running around in the dark putting up pictures where people didn’t expect them. For him that is a good enough reason to dedicate every waking hour to that end. Embracing freehand concepts and stencil art, Irony’s work is a mishmash of visual ideas boiled down into something small enough to carry on the night bus without looking suspicious.

The two have been painting productions together for about a year. Recently, they’ve started to collaborate on single large-scale street pieces.

Their animals are about preconceptions. Lots of people see your work when you paint on the street. Everyone who walks past brings their own frame of reference that affects their emotional reaction to the work. The same is true with how people see each other. In a city of eight million, it’s hard for most of the strangers you see walking down the street not to just get grouped into stereotypes.

That was the purpose of animal portraits on walls, to recreate the emotional reaction. A crow is a crow. It doesn’t understand human expressions; it won't smile or scowl at you. But freeze frame that one moment when it looks a certain way. and suddenly it looks menacing. Pick a different moment and it looks like a hipster, a cityboy, a gangster.

The viewers of our work take their own understanding of the world, applies that filter to a split second’s worth of visual information, and make an assumption. The animal pieces are portraits of stereotyped Londoners. Faux portraits. Snap judgments that fall down with any kind of perspective. To see a crow is to see it as vain, wistful, pompous…but really it’s just a crow. Probably looking for its next meal. Just like all the other wildlife.

Irony

Light

Boe