Street Artists of
Birmingham
There are many well established names in Birmingham’s street art, with their work over the
last few years on view for all to enjoy in places such as Digbeth and Southside. Others are
still working to establish themselves and arrive on the scene in a variety of ways. A key
means of keeping in touch with new street art is on the social media accounts of the artists,
in particular Instagram.
Here are some links to some of the artists that we have been following while researching
Birmingham’s Public Art. We can only feature a representative sample of the considerable
depth of street artists - and have chosen ones that show different styles of street artistry
and backgrounds.
Annatomix moved from a training in music and job as a sound engineer
into the world of spray painting around 2010. She is certainly now one
of Birmingham’s most recognisable street artists, with work in the city
centre and also the suburbs. Her instantly recognisable geometric
wildlife street art is complimented by fine art, including prints and
originals, available from her website.
Gent 48, AKA Joshua Billingham’s
work includes a stylised mix of
perplexed and startled cartoon
style characters, often with teeth
in need of a dentist. His work is
seen across Digbeth and with a
huge display also along Smallbrook
Queensway, installed just before the
Commonwealth Games. Josh trained at
City University in Visual Communication and graduated in 2013.
Ginger_Dan is very much based in Digbeth. His external
work can be seen outside the Red Brick Market and he
has a stall inside selling things such as decorated
planters with his characteristic androgynous faces. He
also runs ‘Drink and Draw’ evenings at The Ruin in
Digbeth - search Eventbrite for tickets. His Cyber Drag
Queen in the Nightingale Club is very diferent.
Robbie Jeffcott went to Bishop Challoner school in Sutton
Coldfield and graduated in fine art from Westminster
University in 2018. He specialises in portraits including large
scale street art, with his impressive Ozzy Osbourne and Mike
Skinner facing each other, close to the Old Crown pub off
Floodgate Street in Digbeth.
Lucy McLauchlan (b. 1977) has a characteristic
monochrome style with spot colours and curvy semi-
abstract forms. Her large scale street art and exhibition
work can be seen around the world. A series along the
Grand Union and Digbeth canals were commissioned by the
Canal and River Trust, with some still existing between
Camp Hill Locks and Typhoo Basin and with earlier work in
Shaw’s Passage by the Friends of the Earth garden.
n4t4 is a prolific Midlands based artist whose work
includes naturalistic faces and birds. Nuneaton based,
AKA Nathan Parker, his impressive Digbeth work from the
High Vis festival can still be seen around the River Rea by
Gibb Street and is well worth a view.
Zinzinahh (Ziner!) has a very stylised graffiti writer style.
His works in Digbeth include collaborations with Gent 48.
Dont be surprised to see his work when you next visit
Nottingham, Banbury of even Tenerife!
Dave Brown (aka: Panda, Flake): Dave is a rock of the
Birmingham street art scene. At school Dave remembers
his art teacher letting him paint the classroom walls - the
start of large scale installations
perhaps! After a course in
graphic design at Solihull Tech
and supported by the
Prince’s Trust, Dave started
Graffitiartist.com. The
business includes support
for street artists, with retailing consumables at Red Brick
Market, to fun parties learning the basics of street art. In 2014
David tried his luck on Dragon’s Den and despite not getting a
business partner his business continues to flourish.
@VoidoneUK: Works in several genres
including 3D faces and robotic imagery.
Void One returned to painting quite late
after dabbling in his teens, having
produced music, run labels, events and
sound systems for over 15 years.
Developing a more graphic style through
the production of digital artwork for
various albums and labels led to attempts
at taking lessons from Photoshop. This has
seen a more vector style with physical studio work and painting jams across the UK.
www.birminghamspublic.art