Nick Walker, an interview. by Silvia Bombardini

Chicago
LES

Dear Shaded
Viewers and Diane,

Since the early
1980s, Nick Walker has become one of UK's most beloved graffiti artist, whose work
has graced the walls of worldwide cities and many galleries, along with the set
of a major motion picture such as Stanley
Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. He recently painted a fabulous, if short-lived,
six feet and a toe Diane portrait, somewhere in New York's West Village. Here,
he told me about vandals in suits, escapism and stencils, growing up in
Bristol, Hip Hop and monocles.

 

S.B.: The latest sightings of Mr. Vandal, somewhere
between Paris and Chicago, seem to suggest of a novel, wildly emotional and
ever more powerful attitude. It's a vandalism coming from love just as much as
subversion, in an overflow of wonder and spray paint. In which ways do you
believe your iconic citizen above suspicion has evolved over the years, how did
you?

N.W.: I think he

SHARE