Miss Bugs and the rise of ‘Urban Art’

graffiti

ɡrəˈfiːti/

noun

noun: graffito; plural noun: graffiti

1.    
writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place."the station was covered in graffiti"

street art


visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations.

These specific definitions relate to art unconstrained by form, media and message. This style of art offers creative freedom and each ‘Urban Artist’ can ‘exhibit’ their work through a variety of mediums.

Miss Bugs creations can be defined as both Graffiti and Street art, with finished work not only being placed in the form of street installations, but also ‘borrowing’ imagery from popular culture for vibrant silkscreen images which are reproduced for private, gallery and online collectors.

It is the work of Miss Bugs in particular that has inspired my current silkscreen and digital prints and my Practice in a Professional Context modular report reflects this influence.  

Using sections of my flamboyant flower patterns and curved black figurative keylines overlaid with layers of print styles, I am experimenting with decorative designs and figurative patterns on a variety of tensile fabric samples and dense paper. 

At this stage I am unsure which surface will be successful for garment construction (as this is one direction I may follow) or which patterns work best and so my continued exploration has led to the silkscreen and digital prints completed so far.