A collaboration of murals appeared in Shoreditch in the autumn last year that I liked, and I knew that these would not last long on the scaffolding that is in front of the former Chariots Roman Spa baths that had been demolished in recent years on Fairchild Street. The two murals feature portraits of women and are painted beautifully. The artwork is created by two artists - DMT Art (who also goes by Damitta) and BAOne (who also goes by baoneknldge).
Damitta (AMT Art) is a London-based street artist who was originally from Spain, and she has been creating artwork on walls since 2004 in a grafitti style, but she had been creating portraits of females to highlight the lack of female representation in street art. For a few years, she was also working in fashion and took a break from her murals, but she returned to the street art scene in 2019. The mural features a woman with red poppies; this was painted around Remembrance Day.
BAONE or baoneknldge (baone knldge) is an illustrator and street artist based in London who used a few different styles of more grafitti-based murals or portraits/illustrations of people and other subjects. The artist's styles are very different depending on the illiustrative style or the grafitti tag style. The collaboration includes a portrait of a female using blue, purple, yellow, and pink bold colours. Because the artist's style is so different, you probably would have seen their work before in London but not connected with this since the style is so diverse.
Keep checking back for more artwork by these artists.
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