Westquay Street Art
Check out the Westquay Street Art!
Westquay is delighted to showcase four incredible pieces of street artwork, by local artists.
Elno Art, My Dog Sighs, Ricky Also and Samo White were commissioned as part of the City Of Culture Bid to decorate the external walls of Westquay. You can find the stunning creations opposite COSMO.
Learn more about the artists below...
Elno Art -
Elena Gonzalez Nieto also known as ELNO, is a Spanish visual artist based in London since 2014. Covering a broad range of artistic styles & techniques, Street Artist, Illustrator / Painter and co-founder of the Wom Collective.
During the last 6 years, Elena has worked tirelessly to develop her skills as a street artist, and illustrator, finding core inspiration within the hustle and bustle of the London Streets, and in the general environment surrounding her. She is a firm believer in the power of art, what it can bring to community, the impact of art within society and the life it can ignite within people.
Her work as a mural artist and painter has been supported and commissioned from various brands ranging from G-Star Raw, Adidas, Acer, Amigos Tequilla Beer, Glastonbury Festival to CNN. ELNO has also had her illustration work featured in collaboration with multiple Spanish writers within Magazine publications, Novels, and children’s Books.
My Dog Sighs - My Dog Sighs’s style is characterised by the combination of melancholic and often naive portraiture with the use of found materials including abandoned food cans.
After 10 years of giving his art away for free as part of the now infamous Free Art Friday project, My Dog Sighs has this year finally found himself strapped in to a well-deserved meteoric rise. With an incredible international following in Israel, Japan and of course the UK, five sold out shows under his belt, and a strong following of staunchly loyal fans on social media; My Dog Sighs is fast becoming an important figure on the contemporary art scene.
“My Dog Sighs’ work forms a narrative based on counterpointed poignancy that resonate with those that have the opportunity to find them. Moments of loss and then being found echo the materials used. Tin cans, once the receptacle of our sustenance, all too quickly rejected, thrown away, abandoned by a materialistic society keen to gorge on the new”
Ricky Also - Ricky Also’s love for typography, colour & layout are the product of his background in graffiti art and graphic design.
Drawing on these influences he creates structured artworks from words and sayings that interlock in multiple layers. Featuring exaggerated & manipulated letterforms that help to give a unique sense of movement and rhythm. With the majority of his work taking the form of painted murals, he plays heavily with scale and the concept of using supersized graphics to transform spaces and environments.
Ricky first began painting in the late 80’s in Southampton, before travelling and finally relocating in Bournemouth 7 years ago, via Sydney and London, where he now applies his art to a wide range of projects nationally, working through his creative practice, Paintshop Studio.
Samo White - Samo White is an artist from Southsea. He is known for his art depicting trans people. As an artist Samo White has always generally used himself as a muse. Depicting his own transition. He describes his practice as a kind of therapy.
