Inkie (UK)
This artist is one of the most notorious and prolific graffiti writers in UK history to emerge out of the 80’s Bristol scene. Painting alongside 3D, Nick Walker and Banksy, in 1989 the ‘Kingpin’ was arrested as the head of 72 other writers in the UK’s largest ever Graffiti bust, Operation Anderson.
Inkie(left) with Otto Schade in Amsterdam, September 2012, GO Gallery
Inkie has since worked as head of design for SEGA, Xbox, and currently works as Jade Jagger’s in-house designer as well as running a West London design studio creating prints, illustrations, clothing and with his trademark beauty on large-scale pieces, the globally respected artist, whose diverse inspirations collect Mayan architecture, William Morris, Mouse & Kelly, Alphons Mucha and Islamic geometry, lauded by The Times, his art published in the books Banksy’s Bristol, Children of the Can, Graffiti World, Street Fonts and magazines GQ and Dazed & Confused.
Inkie is featured in the 2007 LA graffiti documentary Bomb It.
Recent exhibitions include London, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Ibiza, Warsaw and Lisbon.
His work is coveted by celebrity collectors including: Robbie Williams, Jade Jagger, Fatboy Slim, Massive Attack, Sean Pertwee, Roni Size.
