Loulou Bontemps

I am a new fan to DS ART check out these incredible graffit canvas'

You can see the patience & work put in to these wicked works of art I LOVE THEM!

& after some gentle persuasion, I managed to get this new hot up & coming artist in the Boutique...

Click here & take a look at his store

his own website dsart.co.uk is in the making, so stay tuned!

Enjoy!

x

Loulou

DSArt

I'll let DS Art talk for himself, he's awesome & writes like a poet...

The life of a stencil artists is one of contradiction. The act of spray painting is immediate and chaotic; yet the stencil is created painstakingly & with absolute precision. The boundless & wildart of the can is tamed, controlled & brought to solid form by the template, surgically hand-carved. The details & care that goes into creating the stencil is artisanal, commited, focussed; yet the completed stencil can bear the fruit of countless reproductions all executed within seconds. A stencil artist seeks not necessarily to create but to recreate. To relocate. From the impermanent recesses of the creative mind to the authority & permanence of the stencil.

Studying fine art at university, I was fascinated by miniature design, Japanese animation & propaganda posters. It was while living in East London during the early 2000s that I became intoxicated by a graffiti movement that was coming of age. One couldn't help but notice the colour & imagery that soaked the otherwise drab grey walls of Dalston & Shoreditch. For me & my brother, trying to find the latest D-face,Flying Fortress, Obey or London Police to name a few, was like a city-wide treasure hunt. This city was Banksy's Hollywood, his reputation blew up in London; and so too did the grafters & the artists of the shadows as they stepped into the light of the gallery. But thus wasn't just a time for the commercialization of graffiti. It was the playground of the one-off creative & the political activist; the walls were speaking, screaming & I was all ears. DS Art was the love child of this movement.

'David's work takes the art of stencil-work to levels of exceptional detail. Multiple layers create imagery beyond the monochrmatic designs that adorn the walls of our streets; instead we are presented with depth,colour & detail that is complex, tactile & mentally engaging. Themes of violence & fragility are underscored by the playful & outright stupid - all dressed in the robes of rich colour & form' Andres Olow Clase, Orion Contemporary

2010 - With Clase Contemporary, Affordable Art Fair, Brussels

2010 - ‘Pissed Panda’ chosen as part of promotion for Brussels AAF

2009 - With Zebra Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam

2009 - With Clase Contemporary, Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London

2007 - Mbargo solo exhibition, Coventry

2007 - Mbargo solo exhibition, Bristol

2007 - Venue Magazine- featured in

2007 - Bristol fine art, 'student kicks' urban art, joint exhibition

2006 - Hush bar exhibition Bristol

2006 - Stark, joint exhibition Bristol

For commissions & more information please contact info@louloubontemps.com