This is personal

Every day on my ride to work, I witness people on paid 'street art' tours around Shoreditch. The tour guides are inevitably highlighting the work of famous (white male) street artists. As a result, I've increasingly turned toward making more art directly for the people I know and love rather than sticking it up on random walls. This 40th birthday book for my partner is an example of what I mean.

Remembering who we are - the event

To celebrate the last of day of the Shape and Situate exhibition at Space Station Sixty-Five, Melanie Maddison and I put together this one day extravaganza showcasing art that seeks to address lost or hidden radical history and document current social movements.

What's not to love?

I originally made this with the haters in mind. An open question about why graffiti in London gets taken down or painted over so quickly (unless you are one of a handful of mostly white male street artists who are asked to put your stuff up repeatedly in Shoreditch). 

Pivo's neice is now 21

Ever since my niece was old enough to express her first opinion, my sister has teased the two of us that we are clones. I have to admit, it's difficult to understand how else we could have a freckle in the exact same place on our palms and the back of our knees. But mostly this has been based on the amazingly close relationship we've had ever since she was born.

Happy birthday John

A portrait of John's (and maybe everyone's) favorite cat pasted up in a doorway on Oranienstraße in Berlin. 

Pivo: birthday love to her boo

About two years ago, my partner started watching birds. To some people, that probably sounds like a supremely boring thing for someone under 40 to spend their time doing. At first, I might have agreed although I have always relished trips out to the countryside for a spot of foraging.

pivo's grandparents

Lifesize portrait of my grandparents from a photograph taken before they were married. Pasted up to celebrate my Grandma's birthday last month and to watch over and protect her while she undergoes breast cancer surgery this month.

Pivo in Brussels

I was born in a blizzard and every year have to make the best of horrible weather on my birthday. In honour of celebrating any way you can this is pasted up on Rue du Chevreuil/Reebokstraat (right off the Place de Jeu de Balle) in Brussels.