‘If you think I’m a dirty crackhead, that’s fine’: Artists Slawn and Opake talk mistakes and success
Opake takeover

‘If you think I’m a dirty crackhead, that’s fine’: Artists Slawn and Opake talk mistakes and success

Artist Will Blood wanted to be a rock star – but pop-punk’s loss is the art world’s gain
Opake takeover

Artist Will Blood wanted to be a rock star – but pop-punk’s loss is the art world’s gain

Road sign artist Suto: ‘I don’t want to make something that will be loved by everyone’
Opake takeover

Road sign artist Suto: ‘I don’t want to make something that will be loved by everyone’

Artist Soldier: ‘If you put money at your forefront, your work will lose its lifeforce and essence’
Opake takeover

Artist Soldier: ‘If you put money at your forefront, your work will lose its lifeforce and essence’

Graffiti artist Fatso: ‘Anyone can be an artist – but they have to want to be’
Opake takeover

Graffiti artist Fatso: ‘Anyone can be an artist – but they have to want to be’

Artist Charlotte Rose: ‘Warhol said everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. We’re living that now’
Opake takeover

Artist Charlotte Rose: ‘Warhol said everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. We’re living that now’

I thought I’d be dead by 25. So being able to guest edit Big Issue is a dream and a blessing
Opake takeover

I thought I’d be dead by 25. So being able to guest edit Big Issue is a dream and a blessing

Opake on his boundary-pushing art: ‘I don’t think there’s anything more taboo than hentai porn’
Opake takeover

Opake on his boundary-pushing art: ‘I don’t think there’s anything more taboo than hentai porn’

‘We shared a bleak and sarcastic cynicism’: Radiohead artist Stanley Donwood on working with Thom Yorke
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‘We shared a bleak and sarcastic cynicism’: Radiohead artist Stanley Donwood on working with Thom Yorke

‘This has been my shelter’: Powerful exhibition spotlights artists with experience of insecure housing
Art

‘This has been my shelter’: Powerful exhibition spotlights artists with experience of insecure housing

‘It’s an emergency’: Why artist Stuart Semple is giving £30k of art supplies to 50 schools in one day
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‘It’s an emergency’: Why artist Stuart Semple is giving £30k of art supplies to 50 schools in one day

Connections are the art of the matter
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Connections are the art of the matter

10Foot, Tox and Fume’s art exhibition shut down after ‘f**k the King’ graffiti
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10Foot, Tox and Fume’s art exhibition shut down after ‘f**k the King’ graffiti

‘A bright and bold mosaic of creatures’: Meet the winner of Big Issue’s Kids Cover Competition 2025
Kids Cover Competition

‘A bright and bold mosaic of creatures’: Meet the winner of Big Issue’s Kids Cover Competition 2025

‘If I didn’t do graffiti I’d be doing way worse crimes’: Banksy interviews Tox, London’s most prolific vandal
10Foot Takeover

‘If I didn’t do graffiti I’d be doing way worse crimes’: Banksy interviews Tox, London’s most prolific vandal

Revealed: First published photos from graffiti writer and ‘king of the tube’ Bas DDS
10Foot Takeover

Revealed: First published photos from graffiti writer and ‘king of the tube’ Bas DDS

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Graffiti writer 10Foot on finding meaning in the ugly and his ‘disgustingly deep love of London’
10Foot Takeover

Graffiti writer 10Foot on finding meaning in the ugly and his ‘disgustingly deep love of London’

Graffiti writer Fume: ‘All the bad things that happened to me ended up strengthening me’
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Graffiti writer Fume: ‘All the bad things that happened to me ended up strengthening me’

Banksy explains why he uses tag of ‘UK’s most imprisoned graffiti writer’ Tox in his work
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Banksy explains why he uses tag of ‘UK’s most imprisoned graffiti writer’ Tox in his work

Almost Home: Unique exhibition showcases the ‘pain and hope’ of women in prison
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Almost Home: Unique exhibition showcases the ‘pain and hope’ of women in prison