Part2ism

Something more local!! Keith Hopewell is best known as 'Part 2' or Part2ism by many for pioneering photorealist graffiti in the late eighties and early nineties shown here, in ‘galleries’ around York. He has been slowly re-establishing his art for the last few years. Keith first caught people's attention once again with his cardboard cut out installations. He placed complex geometric type, as long as 30 ft in broad daylight around busy city centre's throughout the world. Never designed as commodity, but many of these works were left in the public domain for people to hijack & Keith was caught on the BBC news & also received editorial in the Times & Independent. “I just wanted to play with people's perception of what this art is about, like the first time I saw graffiti on the New York subway! It was an arthouse of its own, born out of suppression & creating something from nothing. It was about expanding your own space & taking things to their limits".His work concentrates on disposable graffiti interventions which are constructed from discarded pieces of cardboard repossessed from the streets. They are designed to modify our city environments & daytime pedestrian streets.

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