Do you see the intersection of political dialogue with art growing, especially in current tumultuous societal times?
You can see from my choice of imagery that political dialogue and art is something that’s close to my heart. I don’t think there has been a big increase of it as a result of the pandemic as I feel like people are producing something more happier during these times instead of producing something with a political edge, but I do wish that changes.
Explain the importance of graffiti or street art to you?
My love for graffiti stretches back to a very long time from when I was in my teens and it stuck with me ever since. I love the fact that there was this movement that belonged to us and it wasn’t owned by the upper class in the world, it was just a street movement that was owned by the people. I love that the art that was being put up was political by nature. It’s deeply imbued in my DNA and I take great delight on how powerful the movement has become so yeah the importance of graffiti in my life is absolutely massive.
How do you see the role of art changing in modern society?
It seems that in the past decade or so, the general public have kind of fallen out of love with art and I think a lot of that has come to the alienation to the values of artworks. It's hard for the general population to comprehend paintings costing millions of pounds. But when you step back 15-20 years ago, the art world was in the public eye all the time, people like Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jeff Koons, Banksy, Shepard - all these people that are constantly in the press and constantly being championed by the general public and I think that slowly that has changed. I don’t have a theory on necessarily why this happened but it has. However with things like Instagram, I feel like art is slowly coming back to the general public, just in a different way. If you look at the people who follow artists on Instagram, you can see that there’s still that interest in viewing art. I think it’s being viewed in a slightly different way, it’s not being looked at in galleries/museums, but it’s being accessed through phones/tablets. I think there’s more opportunity now for artists to directly interact with their fans rather than from a third party like the olden days.
What do you think fundamentally needs to change about the art world?
It needs to get a sense of humor, it needs to have people working in the industry that actually care about art and the artist, rather than just the financing. It needs to be more engaging, it needs to become more public facing so that the public can access it more. I think a lot more galleries need to go, to be honest, and I think that has been happening during COVID-19 times. I think art needs to sort of be reclaimed by the general public rather than by collectors.
Any other upcoming future projects?
One I’m working on actively at the moment is a book that’s made by the Inner Youth in the UK, aged under 21. What I’m asking them to do is go and document their environment and submit the photos so I can edit a documentary book of the state of Britain’s society as seen through the eyes of the youth and those who are underprivileged. I’m also working on making a physical space for Laz Emporium, bucking the trend and trying to open a space in the high street. And then, I’m also experimenting with the manufacturing equipment we’ve got for Laz Emporium to see what’s possible and what’s feasible and how far we can push the technology to create interesting artwork. And I’m having a baby in December, that’s the other project.
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