Stik
Six lines and two dots, painted very large, usually about people who have nowhere to live.
Stik is a British street artist who was homeless in London while developing the figure that made his name: a stick person made from six lines and two dots, with no features at all, whose entire emotional content is carried by the angle of the head and the position of the shoulders. The economy is the point, and it allows the figures to stand for whoever is looking. He has painted large murals in Hackney, across London and internationally, has worked with the NHS and with housing and homelessness charities, and has consistently used the work to raise money for them.
A print-led market with an unusual structure, because many editions were released through charity partnerships and community distributions at low prices, and their provenance and documentation vary accordingly. Screenprints are published in editions from around fifty to several hundred, sometimes in multiple colourways; edition, release and any hand-finishing set the value, and pencil signature and numbering should be present. Unique works on canvas and board are far scarcer. Because the image is six lines, imitation is trivially easy and documentation matters more than usual.
If you own a work by Stik
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