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I was born and live in Aberdeen, Scotland. Graduating in 1999 from Gray’s School Of Art with a BA (Hons) in Painting I then went on to receive a Postgraduate Diploma/Masters in Art & Design in 2000.

I have never stopped painting from then on and have been lucky enough to have exhibited my paintings the UK and further afield - Amsterdam, Crete, Milan, Venice, Rome, Hong Kong and Singapore.

During my first trip in 2012 to Amsterdam I fell in love with the street art there and that’s when my passion for urban art began.

In June 2015 the work Amsterdam inspired work I produced was exhibited at Het Kunstenaarsbal (Amsterdam Cultural Festival). That same year the NUArt street art festival came to my home town of Aberdeen for the first time where I worked as a volunteer, where I met with other local like minded people. They asked me to join the ThrowUp Gallery, a collective of like minded street artists who I have worked on a number of projects and delivered workshops with. This is when I began spraypainting for the first time. 

Moving from painting large scale street art inspired canvases to walls I began experimenting with an idea I had for a workshop painting on old spray cans which would have otherwise been thrown away. I began researching into different cultures, tribes, tribal gods and ritual masks and painting these onto the old spray cans.  Referencing my own background and fusing my signature style with the cultural inspiration. Tribe All is a play on the words so the message of togetherness really comes across. Tribe All, as in we are all one! It is also a play on my initials, AT, but in reverse. The name ties both myself, my inspiration as well as my mission together.

How would you describe your work to someone seeing it for the first time?

My artwork I like to think is fun, colourful and vibrant. With an urban twist. Drawing inspiration from all corners of the world, my spraycan paintings show a mixing of styles and artistic currents that refer to distant and different cultures, fusing these together on the canvas. Fantastic animals coming from ancient oriental paintings, exotic animals, South American traits, bright colours, elements of contemporary everyday life such as the spray can. I try to transmit an inner energy and fusion of elements giving the viewer a fantastic world in which everything is possible.

What have influenced your works?

私は常にドイツ表現主義、プリミティブアート、ストリートアートの両方の大ファンです。これらの運動に関連する多くのアーティストは、私が美大に通っていた頃から私に多大な影響を与えてきました。芸術は、表現的な解釈を通じて、物事の内なる本質であると私が認識しているものを明らかにする必要があると私は感じています。なぜ画家は自然の前に座って、最善の能力を発揮してそれを描くことに満足しなければならないのでしょうか？なぜ「見たものを描く」という要求に応えなければならないのでしょうか？私たちの中にある子供は、常に私たちの中に頑固に残っていると感じます。したがって、画像作成の基本的な事実に正直に直面してみてはいかがでしょうか。私の絵画は、メディアにおける単純な実験として始まりました。暴力的な筆致、誇張された色、エネルギーを組み合わせて、高尚で洗練された作品を生み出す旅でした。歪んだ現実。これらの作品における私の意図は、見る者にほぼ物理的な攻撃を加え、遠く離れた異なる文化を参照するスタイルと芸術の流れの混合を形成するための原始的な緊密な構成を作り、これらをキャンバス上で融合させることです。過去のアーティストとコラボレーションできればまたはプレゼントする場合、誰を選びますか、またその理由は何ですか?

It would have to be Jean-Michel Basquiat. His style was rough, energetic and extremely gestural. Something I have always been a great admirer of and have experimented with myself. His paintings are also very colourful and narrative. Many of his paintings are very large, dynamic and powerful in size. A room full of them is truly a statement. He worked hard - and intelligently - at developing a consistent style that kept its “street” and black origins but was still exciting, well-composed (if inconsistent), interesting and engaging to the cognoscenti and larger art world. His work was extremely decorative, but also socially conscious, an unbeatable combination in upper and upper middle class art circles.

彼らは生き生きとした物語を語り、他の誰とも異なる方法でそれを伝えます。まさにアーティストがそうあるべきです。彼は、ストリート アートと、ほとんどの人が行ったことのない「ハイ アート」の間の橋渡しをしました。将来、あなたに何が期待できますか? スプレー缶の絵をもっとたくさん見ることが期待できます。私にはまだ掘り下げていない文化がたくさんあるので、たくさんの新しいアイデアが生まれるのを待っています。今後数か月以内に、ヴェネツィア、ミラノ、ローマでの 2 つのショーなど、ヨーロッパでのいくつかの展示会に参加する予定です。そのうちの 1 つは、ここ英国と同様に、ここ英国で開催される国際アート フェアです。私のTribe All Tシャツは、2年間の待機期間を経て、9月にミラノファッションウィークの開幕を迎えるEvent Savo'で今年9月に披露され、Tribe Allは「新しい才能」としてパレードされます。

私のトップ5のアートワーク

1 - PANTHER BORUCA SPRAYCAN

2 - JAGUAR BORUCA SPRAYCAN

3 - CATRAGENA SPRAYCAN 1

4 - 全族 {TRIBE ALL) SPRAY CAN

5 - JAPANESE KITSUNE SPRAYCAN