Star is known for her strong characters and mural work. Using feminine portraits and figures as inspiration, her work is a striking blend of colour, abstract composition and intricate pattern work.
Opia takes her name from a psychologically driven word to describe the sensation of being simultaneously vulnerable and invasive when looking into someone’s eyes. Similarly, the Jo’burg based artist incorporates eyes in all of her work, both her fine art pieces and her public murals. When sketching, Opia always begins by drawing an eye and subsequently works the piece into various characters, shapes and occasional lettering, all heavily surrealist and abstract in style.
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Moving between spraycans and paintbrushes, Daisy is known for her strong monochromatic characters, often stark and striking in their appearance. Like many graffiti writers and mural artists, Daisy believes in sparking a certain dialogue between built structures and the public community, and often incorporates messages into her work.
Nard’s one of the more well-known writers on the Cape Town scene. Coming into graffiti by way of the b-boy scene, the artist initially enjoyed graffiti for the rebellion and excitement it offered. Her work is characterized by animals of all kinds, strong geometric elements, bold colour, and the type of line work you can only get from emptying out many a spraycan. Besides having work up all over SA, she’s also painted extensively across the US.
Faith 47’s originally from Cape Town where she used to practice more traditional graffiti lettering and characters before getting into complex stencil and mural work. Now of course, Faith’s work spans entire buildings, multimedia visual works, installation pieces and more.
