Eko is an amazing artist with a strong sense of line
and form and a current predilection for bird boxes. He is also a member of
Bristol’s TCF and Wet Shame crews. This year he has been painting up and down
the UK and also taking part in events across in New York and Paris. At an event
at Royalcheese in Paris he took his bird boxes into three dimensions. Currently
on the streets of Bristol you can find his rather elegantly bugged-out hand-cut
stickers. He is one of my favourites artists and I’m pleased to present his
vitals.

/>Age?:29
Hometown? hull,east yorkshire
Where do you
now live? brizzol
How long have you been creating street art?:
15 years

What did you do last night?
last night is still
only a few hours away,i worked at home on the poota till very late or is it
very early

What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?
/>at the mo only one thing flips my switches, shredded spicy crunchy chilli
chicken the absolute

Who is your favorite fictional
character?:
pi piscine. i like the why that kid operates

/>What do you currently have in your pockets?
a novelty-sized hand
held birdbox, a bag of grade (A) baby makers and a pork sausage, vodoo dolls of
paris and mudwig(paris cant understand why one of his legs is three inches
longer than the other and mudwig wonders why his knob keeps falling off
everytime he goes to use it)

If you were given “more time,” what
would you do with it?
fritter it away proberly

Who do
you love?:
me mam, me girl with her bigg preggers belly, me crew
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Wooster: How did you get
started in creating art for the street?
i suppose the want and need to
get up with tags and spraypaint had long disappered and much more time spent
creating at home with the aid of the computer, the idea of crafting something
over time has partially replaced the much more throw away ethos of graffiti for
me,the need to see something unexplained on a surface as i walk from a to b,i
like things to have no obvious meaning ,i dont like having things spelled out to
me,there s no room left for the mind to wonder,i dont need a beginning middle or
end ,a story told with no room for improvement or embellishments. a yarn ,a tale
or a lie is always more interesting,escapeism i guess

Wooster:
What other street artists do you most admire and why?
last night i
discoverd a gallery on ecosystem of the flying fortress ,i was well aware and
loved his panzer bear, but i didnt know he was so skilled with the spraying
implement doubley impressed, well done old chap

Wooster: What’s
your favorite city, neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street
art?
if only the streets were covered in well drawn loveingly crafted
images in my neck of the woods, id love to say bristol but i cant, dont know
about that Q

Wooster: What inspires you now?
materials,
i mean the implements i use they have huge effect on me

Wooster:
What are you currently working on?  Can you give us a sneak peek?
im
building real birdboxs in wood, ive found that i really love working with wood,
so my minds racing at all the possibilties, all the many ways to customize the
alredy well established shape of a bird box