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Art Below
Art Below is an independent public arts organisation that gives artists access to advertising space to showcase their work in the London Underground.
Founded in 2006 by brothers Ben and Simon Moore, Art Below have featured the work of over 1000 artists from every corner of the globe across London’s underground network, and expanded overseas to Berlin, Tokyo and most recently Los Angeles and New Orleans.
“Directional art with an unorthodox backdrop lends Art Below its fresh, original edge that’s currently causing a creative awakening amongst commuters”
THE GUARDIAN
Johan Andersson
2007 Andersson was the youngest ever artist to be shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery 2008 Graduated from Central St Martins
2008 Named as one of the Independent’s top 20 new artists
2008 Selected for the Jerwood Contemporary Painters Prize
2010 Nominated by Sky Arts as ‘one to watch’ when he took part in a 6 week
documentary The Art of Survival, broadcast in July 2011 2010 Exhibited in charity exhibition for Breakthrough Breast Cancer at the Victoria & Albert museum, London.
Andersson has exhibited alongside artists including Anish Kapoor, Tracy Emin,
Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk and Howard Hodgkin. He has exhibited and sold on the
international art market including The Scope Art Fair in Basel, Cutlog in Paris, and most recently was invited to host a solo show at the Curio Gallery in Venice Los Angeles. His work has been displayed in major London Underground stations
including Bond Street, Baker street and South Kensington with Art Below.
Eine
Eine is most notable for his alphabet lettering on shop shutters in London’s Shoreditch, Brick Lane and Broadway Market areas. Some of these letters have been mapped for ease of finding. He has also taken his lettering to the streets of Paris, Stockholm, Hastings and Newcastle upon Tyne.
Prior to becoming involved in commercial graffiti, Eine was a very famous and highly credible writer in the underground London graffiti scene. His unusual ‘throw up’ was created to stand out from the usual tags and dubs seen on the streets and can still be found in some dingy areas of East London.
Inspired by the work of fashion assassin Noki, Eine first started to explore more commercial avenues in a workshop above the Dragon Bar in Lenoard Street, London (now knocked down). Eine produced a number of custom clothing designs notably some custom “VANDALS” sweatshirts and started to explore screen prints eventually working as a screen printer for cult screen print company Pictures On Walls. Eine produced many of the hand pulled prints for artists represented by POW including Banksy, Jamie Hewlett, Mode2, Modern Toss and David Shrigley. His natural talent for colour combinations meant that he was able to enhance the work supplied by the artists. He left this position to pursue his own solo career in 2008.
At this time Eine contributed to sticker graffiti and was prolific in East London with his neon and black EINE stickers.
Eine first came to prominence in the “commercial” graffiti scene through his symbiotic partnership with London graffiti artist Banksy; through Eine, Banksy was able to access the underground scene and through Banksy Eine accessed the commercial world.
