Stik

Stik, stylised as STIK, is a British graffiti artist based in London. Born in 1979, with no formal art school training, Stik is known for painting large stick figures that are six-lines, and two-dot figures.

Overview

Stik paints stick figure-like people as signature characters in street art. He began in London, working in its northeast area of Hackney, especially in Shoreditch, "and now paints murals all over the world in Europe, Asia and America."

His work is almost childlike in its simplicity and draws from the time he spent in Japan studying Japanese calligraphy characters known as kanji. In the neutrality of the figures he draws, they strike a chord with symbolism and emotion.