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00:01Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following program may contain images and voices of deceased persons.
00:12I am Tony Albert, and as a practising contemporary artist, I have collaborated, exhibited and sold my works around the
00:20globe.
00:21In recent years, I have also witnessed graffiti become the biggest and fastest art movement in the world.
00:30Captivated by this popular arts practice, I'm stepping out of my studio and hitting the streets to meet four graffiti
00:37artists and explore their work.
01:00All my brothers now, all my sisters, all my uncles now, all my mothers now.
01:13A few words, I have a friend of mine.
01:35A few words, I have a friend of mine.
01:35My real name is Kingsley Hampton, but everybody knows me as Butter.
01:38I'm just a local boy from Adelaide, here to represent.
01:43I'm 24 years old, I work hard and this is what I love to do.
01:47I love colour. Colour is life.
01:49And our culture understands that.
01:54And when I finally do get up to that level that I want to be,
01:58when I'm painting the sides of buildings, you know,
02:01like 10, 15 stories up, you know, and I'm looking down.
02:05I can do my big portraits and work dot dot into it as well.
02:09And hopefully you can see it from a few blocks away.
02:11And that's what my main goal is in life right now.
02:18Bada.
02:20Hey, it's looking great.
02:22Cheers, Bada. How are you, bro?
02:23I'm good, eh?
02:24I was coming up to the end of it.
02:27Yeah, wow, a lot of work.
02:29It's getting there.
02:30So what's it spell out?
02:33Spells out my little brother's name, J-Y-E.
02:38Yeah.
02:38I kind of want something like an old school 70s style, you know,
02:43because, you know, he really likes that type of thing.
02:47Yeah.
02:47So it's a bit of a dedication piece?
02:49Yeah, a little bit of a dedication piece to him, you know,
02:52because, you know, he's always kind of there when I need to talk.
02:56Yeah, yeah.
02:57This is just a way for me to say, you know, I love you, man.
02:59Yeah.
03:01And tell me about this character here.
03:03Kind of like a little self-cartoony portrait of me.
03:06That's you?
03:07Yeah.
03:07And why did you decide to paint yourself green?
03:10It's just like reflecting myself, you know,
03:12from a couple of the bad things that I've done in my past as a kid,
03:17taking that bad negative thing
03:20and putting it into a positive spin on it for myself.
03:22Has graffiti helped you through that process?
03:25Oh, absolutely.
03:26Yeah.
03:26Yeah, but it's helped me overcome just a lot of things in my life so far.
03:31You know, just a lot of really bad kind of things you do
03:35when you're a little bit younger.
03:36You know, my friends also have like helped,
03:40have like given me spray paint, you know, to like, you know,
03:43here, man, here, man, look, this, at least you'll keep busy with this.
03:52So, Butter, tell me about this great location.
03:55Hey, it's at the Stamford Hotel.
03:57It's at the top on the pool deck area.
03:59Started me off on the part that I am now.
04:01This piece is basically a regular day at the beach, you know, summertime.
04:05Out fishing, driving boats, a couple people sunburnt.
04:09Because how hard is it to find space in Adelaide?
04:12A little hard, you know.
04:13Sometimes the council and businesses can be picky
04:15because I am a younger artist as well.
04:19You know, my crew is very young at the moment.
04:22You know, not that well established.
04:31This is where I come a lot to paint with a lot of my friends as well,
04:35to practice and everything.
04:37And it's really got some really nice detailed stuff on it.
04:40So anyone can come here and paint legally?
04:43Yep, and without being hassled as, you know, as long as it's within limits.
04:50And how many legal walls are there in Adelaide?
04:52Mainly just this one.
04:54Oh, one for the whole of Adelaide?
04:56Yep, as you can see, this is where we have a lot of fun.
04:58Yeah, like before this, it was all illegal.
05:06When you do it illegally, it's more of like a rush to do it.
05:10Because, you know, you're kind of doing something bad, you know,
05:13and you're getting away with it.
05:14But, you know, at least here, you can come here, you can paint,
05:17you know, no hassles.
05:18So you might do a few little bits and pieces before we head off?
05:21Uh, yep, no worries.
05:22Why, we've got the opportunity at a legal wall?
05:24Yep, definitely, yep.
05:26Hopefully it stays around for a long time.
05:27Oh, no, no.
05:30It looks like the best.
05:44Yeah.
05:45It's pretty confusing.
05:45It's not true, that's true.
05:46Mm-hmm, no.
05:46Pretty confusing.
05:47This is the only legal bit here.
05:49Ah Kingsley Hepton?
05:51Ah, this is amazing.
05:53Yeah, sure.
05:55Oh, no.
05:58Yeah, I didn't really understand that.
06:02No, I reckon. See ya.
06:15Yeah, I think when you do say, you know, the word graffiti,
06:18you know, everybody does kind of take a step back.
06:20You know, they think of this really bad thing,
06:22you know, this really rebellious thing, which, you know, it is.
06:26But, you know, I think there are people, young people like me as well,
06:30that are trying to take it in a more positive direction.
06:33We're just going to come up here and I'm going to take you to my nana's house.
06:35OK.
06:36And introduce you there, everyone, all my family.
06:38Yeah, they'll all be there.
06:39Yep, they'll all be there.
06:45Hi, how are you?
06:46Yeah, that's my mum, that's my nana.
06:48Thank you so much.
06:50That's my little brother, Jojo.
06:51Hey, bud.
06:52So, tell me where the family's from.
06:53Well, originally we're from Central Australia, Alice Springs.
06:58Mum's an Eastern Arrinda lady.
07:01And my father's from Roepeau River in East Arnhem Land.
07:07Tell me about his childhood and how art was involved in that.
07:11It was a big part of our life, especially when the boys, Butter and Joy, were younger.
07:18I was doing my art degree and always been interested in art and doing dot-dot paintings.
07:25Every Saturday afternoon we'd have our art sessions at home.
07:30So the boys would all get there and they'd be drawing and colouring and just doing all that sort of
07:36stuff.
07:37What makes me really, really proud, he did everything to himself.
07:43Meeting people, you know, and going out and doing it, you know.
07:48That sort of thing.
07:50That makes me really proud, too.
07:54Thanks, Mum.
07:55Well, it wasn't easy, but like, you know.
07:57It's just well known in the community now and, yeah.
08:01Among, like, his peers, the other artists.
08:04It's just, yeah, it makes me feel proud.
08:09Everything, I just thought he was doing this silly graffiti to, you know, how you get the people going.
08:16Kids going around damaging and I used to growl, didn't I?
08:20Yes.
08:21I used to go mad.
08:22But that wasn't fun.
08:23Well, still, even in this, eh, there's a lot of stigma attached to graffiti and what it is,
08:29which isn't necessarily true, but there is that perception that it is something bad or that it's vandalism.
08:35Yes.
08:36Yeah.
08:36A lot of kids nowadays don't follow those rules that were laid out, you know, by the original people, you
08:43know, in New York City.
08:45When it comes to, you know, like, historical monuments and, you know, especially war monuments,
08:51it's absolutely disrespectful and it's just not on, you know.
08:54It's the same thing for, like, funeral homes and retirement homes, you know, like, primary schools and, you know, kindergartens.
09:02Because, like, there are, like, there are the old school set of rules.
09:07And I was taught by some of the old school runners, as well as on the street, being self-taught,
09:11as well as hooking up with existing crews.
09:14They really helped me out on techniques and, you know, certain styles and, you know, if I was, you know,
09:20kind of lacking in a certain area, just to help build me up from there.
09:23Yeah.
09:25Yeah.
09:25Graffiti artists that inspire me today is a guy called Jean Basquet.
09:30Just the way how he came from doing graffiti art and then came into the art world as a fine
09:35artist.
09:36You know, sometimes he could go from something that's really bright, colourful and the line work that he uses.
09:42But also he uses a lot of dark, which is really, you know, a reflection of how he's feeling, which
09:48I think, you know, is a bit hard to do.
09:50Especially when you're vulnerable at a point like that and just showing people, you know, this is how I'm really
09:55feeling.
09:56Another person is Adnet.
09:59Yeah, he does, like, a lot of Aboriginal faces and stuff like that.
10:03Because when I first saw that, you know, and I saw that black face on a wall, you know, and
10:08I thought, wow, that's beautiful.
10:10And just the way how he captured us as a people and as a culture is something that we can
10:15project on a large scale.
10:17Just show everyone, you know, this is what us mob are about.
10:20Bring some positivity to us as well.
10:30Graffiti has really has kind of saved my life in a lot of situations, you know, just, you know, really
10:38bad and, you know, worried thoughts, you know, and, you know, I've always kind of, I've always kind of, you
10:45know, just shut the world out and everything.
10:49Realities of a dreamer, constantly filled with feet, makes the victory sweeter.
10:53Was no secret back in high school, the underachiever.
10:56But I saw past the classroom and listened to my children.
10:59When you're depressed or, you know, just get, you need to get through something just to kind of pick you
11:04up off of that and bring you back into, like, an art, like, the art scene and just really focus
11:10you again.
11:10In the back of your mind you feel you're destined for greatness.
11:13All reality is wrong through the eyes of a dream.
11:17Hey, I feel I woke up in a dream.
11:20I've seen the real life and it ain't what it seems.
11:23Don't wake me up now, please let a brother sleep.
11:26Graffiti is my way of expressing myself and it just really helps me get through some of the really hard
11:31times in my life.
11:32I came from the bottom, what I got to fear.
11:35I came from the bottom, now I'm finally here, living my dreams.
11:42Tease of a dreamer, constantly filled with feet, makes the victory sweeter.
11:46Was no secret back in high school, the underachiever.
11:49With your interest in portraiture, we could take a look at South Australia's most famous portrait artist.
11:55Yeah, absolutely.
12:03So, Butter, I was really excited to bring you here to the Robert Henniford Show.
12:06Yep.
12:08He's another South Australian artist, but recognised nationally and internationally and a prolific artist in his own right.
12:16The way in which he studied the human form, the body, portraiture, I thought would be quite inspiring.
12:21He really captured each individual person.
12:25It's really quite amazing.
12:26We can see the lengths that Robert Henniford went to within his studies.
12:32You can see I love that this picture here is just of four arms.
12:36The extent in which the artist has looked at the human anatomy, the muscles, how they all work.
12:42A lot of time and study and care went into everything that he did.
12:45You can definitely just see it.
12:47It's just amazing.
12:51One of my favourite things in the show was also these cabinets.
12:55I mean, again, I think they give you this great understanding of him always having a pen and paper on
13:01hand
13:01and just some of the situations he was in, where he's able to capture a bit of movement.
13:06Looks like people sitting on a bus.
13:09They might be at the pub on a chair.
13:13Kind of really captures some emotion with it, you know, as well.
13:16There's other examples, like the picture down here, which was actually done live on stage during the play production of
13:26Namajira.
13:28So you can see the much broader brush strokes.
13:32Kind of whilst everything's in there, it's a little less resolved.
13:36And he did this on stage?
13:38Yeah, it was actually part of the performance was this portrait taking place.
13:41Yeah.
13:42Oh, well, that's just, wow, that just blows my mind.
13:45You just see that it's very loose and relaxed, but there's still a lot of technique in it.
13:51Really, really beautiful.
13:53Yeah.
14:03Yeah.
14:05Is that green?
14:07Yeah.
14:10I'm weird to know.
14:12Well, I feel that's covered kind of the fine art, but I really want to find out more about graffiti.
14:17Yep.
14:18All right.
14:18So I was thinking the heart and soul of graffiti is really Melbourne.
14:23Yes.
14:23Yes.
14:24We get that a lot.
14:25Have you ever been before?
14:27No, I've never been to Melbourne before.
14:29Well, we're going to Melbourne.
14:31You're taking me to Melbourne?
14:33Oh, fire out.
14:34That's deadly.
14:34You know the quickest way to the airport?
14:36There you are.
14:36We go straight through that way.
14:44.
15:07Steps to work, it's just really different.
15:14It's really, really a big step up for Madeleine.
15:22It's really creative out here.
15:24Oh, wow.
15:25Oh, yeah.
15:26Oh, nice.
15:27Oh, wow.
15:27Do you know whose work that is?
15:29Yeah.
15:29Adnate.
15:30I'm a big fan of his.
15:32Wow.
15:32It's amazing the skin tonality and stuff you can get from spray cans.
15:37I've only seen a picture of this.
15:39I didn't realise how big it is.
15:42Wow, that's beautiful.
15:45That's something that I'd definitely like to inspire to get up to one day on that type
15:51of level and scale.
15:52I think there's a lot of infrastructure involved in doing something called that scale.
15:55Oh, yeah.
15:56No, definitely.
15:57You put a lot of time and effort into something, you know.
16:00That's, you know, hopefully what you want to achieve one day, you know?
16:04Yeah.
16:04Yeah, but that's, I mean, just the amount of detail in there as well.
16:09Dude, it's just beautiful, really.
16:14And I've never seen anything that big on the side of a building.
16:18Yeah.
16:19Yeah.
16:22Yeah.
16:23Yeah.
16:25Yeah.
16:26So, but as you know, Melbourne is home to some nationally recognised, the best graffiti
16:31artist.
16:32So I thought I'd bring you to meet someone.
16:34Oh, deadly.
16:35Let's go have a look.
16:37I think he's down here.
16:44Hello.
16:46How are you?
16:46Good.
16:47How are you?
16:48Yes.
16:48How are you?
16:49I'm Barad.
16:49How are you?
16:50How are you?
16:50How are you going, mate?
16:50Nice to meet you.
16:51I'm Matt Adnate.
16:54Nice to meet you.
16:55Nice to meet you, man.
16:56Nice to meet you too.
16:57I'm a really big fan.
16:57Good twist, brother.
16:58Yes.
16:59I am Matt Adnate.
17:01I am from Melbourne, Australia.
17:04I grew up painting here as a graffiti artist as a teenager and spent about ten years
17:08painting letters.
17:10And then in my recent years, I started painting portraits.
17:15Every corner of the globe, people are painting graffiti.
17:17So it's a very important and massive art movement.
17:23You've never had this many people involved in any art movement in any one time.
17:28The first image that I saw was the one where it was just kind of like the eyes and the
17:33nose.
17:34I thought, this is a black fella face.
17:36Yeah.
17:36And I'm like, I've never seen that before, but never in the graffiti art form.
17:41You know?
17:41That's what got me interested.
17:43Originally, I thought you were a black fella.
17:44Yeah.
17:45A lot of people think that.
17:46Yeah.
17:46No, no.
17:47Definitely.
17:48That don't matter to me.
17:49Because you're so used to seeing, I don't want to sound bad or anything like that.
17:54Totally.
17:54I don't want, but usually white faces in society and billboards and everything like that.
18:06Yeah.
18:07You're just a young Aboriginal girl, you know?
18:09Yeah.
18:09And it's in your face, you know?
18:10It's just such a beautiful piece.
18:12Yeah.
18:13You know?
18:13It's just really inspiring.
18:15Thanks, man.
18:16It just really opens up my eyes to something that maybe I could do in the future.
18:22I mean, that's the thing is that for me with my work is, I think it's strong, it's biggest
18:26strength is awareness.
18:27Yeah.
18:27Absolutely.
18:28And create and letting, putting that idea back into people and reminding people, hold
18:32on, like, you know, don't forget about these people because, you know, that's what often
18:35the government tries to make the society do.
18:38Yeah.
18:38Absolutely.
18:38You know?
18:39And imagine if everyone was going around putting up these massive portraits, it'd be
18:42like, no one's, you know, everyone's going to be reminded every, you know, left,
18:45right and centre for it.
18:46Yeah.
18:47Well, Australia's always been famous for having its own graffiti art form.
18:51Even since it's the early nineties and late eighties before the internet was around,
18:55it was particularly Melbourne.
18:57We had our own sort of famous wild style.
19:00And then in the, in the two thousands street art started and it boomed in Melbourne as well.
19:05And there was a huge movement here with stencils and all that too.
19:07So yeah, there's certainly been a spotlight on, on Melbourne and Australia for a while,
19:12but you know, we're in the, you know, the bottom end of the world.
19:14So it's hard for it to be, you know, to get too much notice.
19:21We'll just do a quick realistic eye.
19:23Yeah.
19:24As big as possible.
19:28Do you want to feel that in that colour?
19:30Yeah.
19:30And that in that colour?
19:31Yeah.
19:35Technically you should always start from, from, uh, darkest colour to lightest colour.
19:41Yeah.
19:42And that's what I've been told.
19:43Yeah.
19:44That's what I try and do, but you know, we're not, we're not traditional artists.
19:48So yeah.
19:49That's it.
19:49Some rules are about to be broken.
19:51Yeah.
19:51That's right.
19:52So we can do, we can paint however we want, you know?
19:54Yeah.
19:54Always look at the picture.
19:56Yeah.
19:57Yeah.
19:57That tends to be a little bit of a, like, like my problem, you know?
20:01Yeah.
20:01Sometimes, you know, I just think I got it in my head.
20:04Yeah.
20:04Yeah.
20:04Well, you can do that.
20:05Well, that's, that's the thing I had to learn.
20:06Like when I was talking about the life drawing.
20:08Yeah.
20:08I used to be like, oh yeah, I could just paint a face.
20:10Oh yeah.
20:10Two eyes go here.
20:11You know, looked at faces all my life.
20:13Yeah.
20:13But then when I, when I started doing portraiture, I realized that, hold on, you've got to sort
20:18of forget all those assumptions.
20:19Yeah.
20:20You've got to get rid of them.
20:21You've got to get them out of your head.
20:22Yeah, absolutely.
20:25So see how, see how there's a little bit of, I don't know if you can see it, but like,
20:29it's blue.
20:31Yeah.
20:31Yeah.
20:31And that, that's what makes things realistic.
20:33Yeah.
20:34If you can spot that kind of color in it.
20:36Yeah.
20:37And you can barely see it in here.
20:39Like I'll make these marks here.
20:41Yeah.
20:44And then I'll go like this.
20:47Oh yeah.
20:47Just to make it kind of look a bit more, cause this is like that iris, the iris of the
20:51eye.
20:52Yeah.
20:53It's all kind of a bit rough anyway.
20:54And just to give it that texture.
20:56Oh yeah.
20:56It looks a lot more natural as well.
20:58Yes.
20:58A lot more natural exactly.
21:00Yeah.
21:00Cool.
21:01You've got a little bit out of that.
21:03You've got something out of that.
21:05Yeah.
21:05Nah, man.
21:07I'm just blown away at the moment.
21:09Cool.
21:10Good.
21:10I mean.
21:12Yeah.
21:13So tomorrow we're going to go do a, pretty much do a collab.
21:16Oh shit.
21:17Alright.
21:18So we're going to go do a collaboration in, they've already got a wall lined up for us.
21:22Yeah.
21:23Okay.
21:23Okay.
21:24Yeah.
21:24And we're going to go do something together.
21:27Oh, what?
21:29Nah.
21:30Cheers man.
21:31Nah, you're more than welcome man.
21:32So we've got to sit down and plan it out a little bit.
21:34Just a tiny bit.
21:35Not too serious.
21:36I've certainly stalked Butter's Instagram and on his Instagram there's lots of cool images
21:41of all the characters that he's painted and other sneaky, other types of, you know, things
21:45that he's painted too.
21:45Yes.
21:46So if you do something like that and I paint a portrait of you.
21:49Yeah.
21:49I think that'd be an awesome combo, especially cause he's green.
21:53Yeah.
21:53Definitely.
21:53So it's like this kind of like, you know, scary version of you.
21:56Yeah.
21:56Yeah.
21:56Mr. Jericho, Mr. Hyde type of thing.
21:58Yeah.
21:59Alright.
22:00Awesome.
22:00Lovely to meet you dude.
22:02Thanks man.
22:02I'm really looking forward to tomorrow.
22:03Yeah.
22:03Definitely man.
22:04It's going to be out of control and yeah.
22:05Stuck to meet you dude.
22:06Yeah.
22:07That's just how am I going to go to sleep tonight?
22:08Nah.
22:37Sorry.
22:38I'm ready to go. Music is my ignition. You know how it goes. Haters in every direction.
22:44But now I'm on the road to success. I can't see the reflection. It's a good thing, huh?
22:48Now I'm on the grind. It's my time to shine. Payback shining like some dollars.
22:52Take my brother when that rap man. I'm paying homage because we roll to success.
22:56I can't see the reflection. It's a true that we're doing it. You know what the movement is.
23:00So much competition. Damn, I don't have to do the thing. I just keep going.
23:05All I have to do is bring a pen in the pen. From the beginning to the end.
23:10A warrior on the edge of time. Making amends. And I don't have to pretend.
23:14To all them haters, I got a song for you. You can never hold me down.
23:19Oh no, I'm headed for the top. And I ain't never losing.
23:22On me, I'm a warrior and that's for sure.
23:24Like maybe if you're going to do chuck-ups, do them in like a red or not in the brightest
23:32color, which is the white.
23:35Yeah, it's like nobody gonna move.
23:38To incorporate that desert pattern into the piece and into his graffiti, it's very groundbreaking.
23:46With the name of my crew, Vicks Files. Haters, this rhymes for you.
23:49You can never hold me down. Oh no, I'm headed for the top.
23:53And I ain't never losing. I'm a warrior and that's for sure.
23:56I'm standing on my own till nobody gonna move, man.
23:59Na, la, la, na, na, na, na, no, na. I ain't never losing. Na, na, na-na, na.
24:05Na, na, na, na, na. Nobody gonna move, man.
24:10Alright, it's finished.
24:18Oh, shit, man. Sick, man.
24:20Cheers, man.
24:25Oh, cheers, man.
24:27Nah, thank you. I'm stoked.
24:36I think Butter's got a huge future in street art and graffiti and fine art.
24:40I mean, that's the thing when I started off doing lettering
24:43and I was only a few years older than Butter now
24:46when I started doing portraits and then completely changed my life
24:50and my game of what I was trying to do.
24:52And yeah, he's certainly got a future for it.
24:59Oh, it's been amazing.
25:02It's just, you know, taught me a lot as well,
25:04just seeing different styles, opening my eyes up,
25:07what's around and out my world, you know?
25:11So hopefully in the next five years I'll be painting,
25:14you know, just as good as him.
25:17I'm Ongzwana and I'll be coming to a neighbourhood near you.
25:21Look, that's it.
25:22Let me...
25:30Realities of a dreamer
25:31Constantly feel defeat makes the victory sweeter
25:34Was no secret back in high school, the underachiever
25:37But I saw past the classroom and listened to my teacher
25:40Kept my flows hot like a heater
25:42In the middle of the summer
25:44And if I didn't want a clear day
25:46I'd bring that rain and the thunder
25:48So just open your mind
25:50Let my words fall inside
25:52I'll teach you how about reality
25:54And dreams coincide
25:55Like that way
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