I like to see political street art on the streets, but it’s not really my thing to put on my walls. What do you think about the politically charged street art, like that of Banksy? I like to give people the chance to discover it themselves and interpret the messages as they understand them. At the moment I’m trying to put more emotion and hidden messages in my stencils, staying away from the hard hitting political messages! Not going to get into just why I’m doing what I’m doing. I do try to put some emotion and message in my work, but not as in your face as many street artists do. It’s always in the back of your head, and I always carry a pen and a sketchbook. The easiest way to explain it is that you never have time off when you’re an artist. But trying to spend as much time as possible with my son. What percentage of you time is devoted to art?Īt the moment I’m working almost around the clock. I’m just doing the collaborations for fun and to see what I can add to other peoples work and what they can add to my work! So far I’m very happy with everything we’ve done! Yeah, I’ve been doing a couple of collaborations, among them with Dot Dot Dot for a charity show in NY and with both Roamcouch, Pure Evil and Snik. Fantastic crew and met so many great artists! On the other side of the scale, I have to mention participating in last year’s NuArt. Can’t say it was fun, and the result looked shit, but I will never forget that. I’ve had a lot of fun, and met many great people over the years, but one of the most memorable have to be helping a fellow artist paint a stencil in -30 Celsius after a drunken night. What was your most memorable “street art” experience? Recently I’ve mainly been working on canvas, but I really enjoy painting on aluminum and metal, and found objects like wood and metal. Some of my recent favorites are Borf, José Parlà and Smash137. Have you always been an artist? If not, then what where you before you became an artist?įor the better part of my life I’ve been painting and drawing, not to the extent I do now, but I can say I spent most my years at school sketching, drawing letters and characters instead of doing maths or science.Īre there any artists who particularly inspire you?įunnily enough I’m not a big fan of stencil art myself, although I respect and get inspired but some I mostly enjoy abstract graffiti inspired art. Other than that I’m basically self taught. And as a child my father drew me cars and Disney cartoons. I still love watching, and painting Graffiti, but trying to incorporate it more and more into my stencil art now.īesides the basic high school art education, I’ve studied graphic design. I’ve been following the graffiti and street art scene since the mid 90’s, after discovering Banksy (of course) and realizing I wasn’t good enough painting graffiti pieces, so I decided to try stencils. I’m a 30 year old Norwegian stencil artist. After doing graffiti for many years I got into stencils and been working with the medium for about 10 years now, and full time for the last 2-3 years. Martin was nice enough to fit us in his busy schedule for a Q and A.Ĭould you tell us a little about yourself? Since his artistic debut in 2006, he has had several solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. He enjoys creating either unity or conflict between materials and motives. His interest for decay has helped develop his style and composition. He looks for inspirations in city landscapes and old soon to be demolished buildings. Martin has a continuous urge to search for beauty in what is commonly dismissed as ugly, out of style or simply left behind. After following the development in the street art scene closely, he started his own artistic production in 2004. He discovered stencils and the urban art scene while studying Art and Graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication, in Oslo.
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