hARTberg walk - ROIDS
Hartberg
Experience unique spray art in the East Styrian town of Hartberg!
It's all You
This piece feeds off a series of abstract studio works I made in 2021, exploring repetition and the use of dimensional forms to create a kind of mandala of geometric vocabulary. An explosion of information that is representative of new ideas and moments of clarity as the elements expand and interact out from the central focal point in an organised and rhythmic fashion.
Incorporating the structural elements, facades and existing geometry of the “Bauhof” alongside the work's dimensional elements helped to create a piece that has a quasi-anamorphic quality, providing different viewer points as you move around the building helping to transform its classic rural features.
Artist bio:
Born in London in 1982, Will Gates (Roids) is a British visual artist who engages in a range of creative practices informed by his graffiti background. Among them painting, analog typographic design, mural painting, and sculpture. Gates's work intersects a deeply studied approach to form, and dimensionality, with an aesthetic charge emanating from the environmental exploration of his graffiti practice, mining from urban history, personal experience, and the nuances of arts connected crafts. Known for his innovation and influence within the conventions of graffiti, Gates's work is constantly evolving. A measure of graffiti's inherent competitiveness and his own unique investigation into the stylization and abstraction of lettering.