AN INTERVIEW WITH HEBRU BRANTLEY
AN INTERVIEW WITH HEBRU BRANTLEY
Last Thursday, Mead Carney opened Hebru Brantley's international debut exhibition for . He's been making quite a stir over in the US and has some reasonably big name fans of his art work. He hit the headlines after Art Basel Miami when Jay Z purchased a piece of his work and requested the artist personally deliver the piece at the end of the day, and Recently collaborated with producer Swizz Beatz on a piece of work. This new body of work showing at MC is entitled 'Everyone's Everything'.
Because graffiti, rap and art are more or less our 'MO' here at DP, we had a word with Hebru while he was in town. Enjoy:
You started out doing graffiti, who were your favourite writers?
When I started doing graffiti I looked at guys like Dondi White, Totem, Dame, a lot of different european writers and a lot of very well known new york graffiti crews, even guys like fat five freddy, fat joe KRS1 who were fundamental founding fathers of hip hop that merged the gap between being a hip hop artist and a writer.
What made you want to cross over into 'fine art'?
Jay Z has obviously been a pretty reasonable boost to your profile recently! Does music play an important role in your creative process?

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