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Social change is what art does. I dont know what else there is, to be honest. Social change seems to me the primary function of art. I feel thats my duty. Thats why Im here. Thats what art is supposed to do. Stik
Stik first came to notoriety as an underground street artist who painted life-size stick figures during the night around Londons East End. As a firm believer in the right to protest, the freedom of speech, and basic human rights, Stik has now painted murals in cities, towns, and villages all over the world, focusing his work in communities that face repression and disenfranchisement.
Having gained an international following, Stik credits his audience with the intelligence to fill in the emotional details of his work, which always consists of just six lines and two dots. Each piece is a meditation.
This is the first collected volume of his work to date. It reveals the political and artistic inspiration behind an emerging voice whose work stands alongside Banksy and Keith Haring among true activists in the street art community.
The first edition includes an exclusive limited edition lithographic print inside the book in either blue or orange.
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PENGUIN BOOKS
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First published in Great Britain by Century, an imprint of The Random House Group Limited, 2015
Published in Penguin Books 2016
Copyright 2015 by Stik
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This book is dedicated to my friend and mentor, world musician Sheila Chandra, whose guidance over the last seven years has helped me to find the stillness from which to create and whose professional insight has given me the fierce, single-pointed focus needed to survive and flourish in the art world. Her wisdom inspired me to love my audience and her friendship helped me to love myself.
It was through Steven Fatty Malloy, Primal Screams roadie and general-duty action man, that I first connected with Stik. It was 2008. Fatty knew I had written about the grafitti movement when it busted into the white-wall art world, so he thought I should meet an intriguing figure in the scene. Self-contained and dispassionate, Stik told me of his homelessness and how it fed into both the politics and aesthetics that animate his remarkable and consistently inventive work. We have met frequently since.
There is nothing wilful about his lines, nothing decorative. The lines are like an internal representation of your body, Stik says. We feel our bodies as lines of consciousness. And he got this knowledge not from anatomy studies but in the most direct way imaginable: by working as an artists model in his homeless years.
Stik has been making the radically pared-down stick figures, from which he takes his name, since he began to make art. Yes, they can bring Keith Haring to mind, or a mainstream Modernist like Lger, but actually he is channelling way earlier sources, like the figures cut into the white chalk hills in Englands West Country or the Nazca Lines in Peru.
Anthony Haden-Guest
When I started painting in the street I soon found out that using just six lines and two dots was the quickest way to paint a human figure without getting caught. The figures I painted were an expression of my struggle to find shelter in the city. At the time, I was living in the abandoned buildings of Londons East End and found myself squatting alongside political activists who introduced me to the concepts of activism, resistance and solidarity.
It was people from the neighbourhood who helped me get back on my feet, and the guidance of my mentor that enabled me to become a full time artist. The support I felt was overwhelming and community became the central theme of my work. By adding a simple human presence to the streets, I found I could humanise the structures of the city and bring attention to the social issues surrounding them. The murals I painted told the stories of our neighbourhood undergoing gentrification, of government cuts and people struggling to keep their homes.
As word got out, I was able to show solidarity with other causes around the world: the civil rights movement in America, renewable energy in Norway, recycling in Japan and the housing crisis back in the UK. The feeling of hope that first drove me to paint in the street seems to translate. Perhaps it is the simplicity of these figures, just six lines and two dots, that speaks to people from all walks of life.
Alone (below) / The Struggle ()
Hertford Union Canal, River Lee, Tower Hamlets, London 20042007
Comforting
Hackney Marshes, London 20042007
Under the Bridge
Hackney Central Station, Mare Street, Hackney, London 20042007
A Parent Looks Over Two Children
Tower Hamlets, London, Hertford Union Canal under east cross route 20042007
Reaching
Three people reach up, reflecting the giant construction cranes starting to populate the area.
River Lee, Hackney, London 20042007
Family
River Lee Navigation, A12 flyover, Hackney, London 20042007
Book
BookArtBookShop established 2002 specialises in hand-made, limited-edition art books by local artists.
Pitfield Street, Hackney, London 20042007
Dalston Lane Squat Crew
One of the squat crews occupying Dalston Lane. Construction cranes seen in the background are laying the foundations of the new Dalston Junction station.
Dalston Lane, Hackney, London, 2008
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