Award winning artist and NAPA (National Acrylic Painters’ Association) member, Steve Miles, has an abstract language of painting combined with a highly expressive and gestural graphic style influenced by his years as a graffiti artist and graphic designer.
This exhibition includes recent and new artworks featuring Steve’s signature layered technique, vibrant colours and abstract shapes.
Miles: “I was hooked like some kind of alphabet junkie”
Introduced to hip hop at an early age after seeing magazines about graffiti and hip hop, Steve became intrigued by the graffiti artwork that was integral to hip hop and breakdancing culture.
“I was really into drawing, so I started to get into the graff, practicing my own letters every day at school and often into the early hours of the morning at home, I was hooked like some kind of alphabet junkie!”
He later emerged as a graffiti artist under the alias TOXIC363.
Over time, he has adapted his scaled-down approach to painting by creating more abstracted and fluid, gestural marks that capture the same emotions that can be found in his large-scale graffiti works.
Whitmore: It’s been a pleasure working with Steve
Quay Arts Visual Arts manager, Ian Whitmore, says,
“It’s been a pleasure working with Steve to realise RE:EMERGE, an exhibition of street infused abstract contemporary paintings.
“The deft and powerful pieces are a development from Steve’s earlier ‘Toxic363’ works, morphing the previously large format and angular letterform murals into panels, diptychs and sequenced wall works that burst with energy.”
RE:EMERGE A solo exhibition by Steve Miles runs until Saturday 24th September 2022 / daily 9am – 5pm / free entry.
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