D*FACE

London-based Dean Stockton, better known as D*Face, has gained legendary status in the street art world – and for good reason. He’s famous for his comic strip-like murals that satirise popular culture, instantly recognisable for their bold, eye-catching and rebellious style that blends art, design and graffiti. As well as splashing his works on the streets of London, he’s taken his brush to walls large and small across the world, and created stand-out album covers for Christina Aguilera and Blink 182.

A true street art advocate, D*Face opened London’s first contemporary art gallery dedicated to street art in the early 2000s. Stolen Space Gallery is still going strong in Shoreditch but you can catch D*Face’s works right here, at art’otel London Hoxton.

Where would an artist be without his trusty brush in hand? Or, in this case, standing sixteen feet tall in cast bronze in the middle of East London?… Well, either way, D’s Little Helper is about leaving your mark – a fundamental part of not just street art but all art in general. Mark making is what being an artist is all about and what bigger and better mark to make than a landmark brush, big enough to paint all of London in a day?!

A giant paint brush that I can paint the world with. This is a much more evolved version of that. He has a real motion to him and it’s those little nuances that you end up being able to portray personality with. It’s part of a family of course, there’s the paint brush, spray can, paint tin and eraser bench.