Calligraffiti

Acrylic, sumi ink, pigment and pearlescent paint on linen, ± 130 x 90 cm.

Mural in Amsterdam Noord by Adele Renault and Niels Shoe Meulman. The calligraffiti makes reference to a theory called biocentrism.

Mural in Amsterdam Noord by Paul Du Bois-Reymond and Niels Shoe Meulman.

Number 1 and 44 of a silk screened print (edition of 44), where the usual hand numbering creates the content.

Acrylic, suni ink and metallic paint on linen, ± 190 x 280 cm.

Sketch and visual to promote the event at gallery Unit 44 in Newcastle.

Vector art

Acrylic on canvas, ± 700 x 200 cm. Novum Opus (Latin for New Work) is taken from the famous manuscript The Lindisfarne Gospels. In the summer of 2013 Niels Shoe Meulman was invited to do a series of paintings inspired by the book. Check out the video.

Testing out some paints and brushes, suddenly this piece came into existence.

Mural in Woodhorn, Northumberland. Formerly an English mining site, now a museum and archive of old manuscripts. In the summer of 2013 Niels Shoe Meulman was invited to do a series of paintings inspired by the Lindisfarne Gospels. Check out the video.

In the summer of 2013 Niels Shoe Meulman was invited to do a series of paintings inspired by the Lindisfarne Gospels. This is a mural in Durham, UK. The scribe who wrote almost all of the Lindisfarne Gospels was called Eadfrith. Niels Shoe Meulman strongly feels that these type of monks were the graffiti writers of their time. The graffiti artist Eadfrith would be part of a crew called Quod Scripsi Scripsi (What I wrote I have written). There’s a very nice read about this on the BBC website. And don’t miss the video by Stephen Noble.

Acrylic on a patio, Berwick, Northumberland. In the beginning there was the word. And the word was Shoe.

The Justified Limousine was painted during Art Basel Miami in 2012, then went to New York for some photo ops. When it arrived in San Francisco in 2013 it needed a good wash…

Then followed a second painting session on Treasure Island…

Then some cruising…

And finally filmer/photographer Colin M Day made three prints of his shots which were customised with silver paint by Niels Shoe Meulman. For sale at White Walls gallery.

The Unruly Limo is sponsored by shoe brand United Nude and is featured in this video commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. The Unruly Limo also has its own Instagram.

Acrylic on paper with broom, ± 83 x 108 cm each.

This is the canvas that Niels Shoe Meulman painted in the Muhammad Ali tribute video ‘Word’. It was stretched in four pieces that each measure 8×8 feet. See all five videos via the older post.