DON UA - 2010's photostream

Don - Biog

I started out in '84. I"d been bought up in Borneo and when I came back to England felt the confines of the concrete jungle around me. But it was to be a blessing. I looked at the stone and concrete walls in a different light, I saw them as vast spaces ready to be painted and moving spaces were even better, trains ... like cheeters in the wild, were fast, got everywhere, but most importantly, were always 'spotted'. I quickly learnt that a jungle kid could fast settle into his new pack when he earnt himself respect from his name and 'got up'. I was just 12. Old habits die hard and as important to me as it was then, it is now.

I've taught East End children at an East End school to nicely mural a wall. I've convinced myself that you don't have to cling on to a carriage late at night, under a tungsten light, to be seen the next day. I've had my knuckles slapped and paid the price. I have conformed as much as I am able for now, bringing my art to TV and Film. Employed to tag a Batman set, WOW one of the best cities I've tagged ... graff stays in my soul, the movement, the colours, the people, the sounds. Beat street, hiphop and those crazy, crazy legs are going to be around for a while longer and I'll grow with it, its time has come.