"For many years, I focused on organising content into written images. In doing so, I intentionally limited myself and reached limits that I am now moving beyond. This is liberating and offers creative possibilities, complexity and depth that I never imagined. It's as if the letters feel it too."
Stohead was born 1973 in Schwäbisch Hall in the southern part of Germany and works since 2006 in Berlin. Stohead started his career as a classic graffiti writer at the age of 14. In 1999 he moved to various cities with a longer stay in Hamburg, he joined the artist group "getting-up" and started his career as a freelance artist and illustrator. His passion for characters shows off in sculptures which followed his early figurative studio works. They are done on a high handskill level that was tought to him during the handcraft educations he went through during his job career. The puristic form of graffiti, tagging and throw ups is a form of contemporary calligraphy for Stohead today becoming his own and newer style on canvas called Round tip.
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