Replete 🇬🇧 TPN Crew Graffiti • Leeds Graffiti Artist

[Replete]

Cheers fellas and yeah I did get down to some of Sonar. I found it's gone down hill a bit since i was last there in 2004 as it seems to have been completely hijacked by corporations.

Saw a bit of Diplo doing an ace mashup mix and best of all Roisin Murphy having a playfight on stage with her backing singers, rolling around on the floor.

[Replete]

I was a little heartened to see some things haven't changed all that much in Barcelona despite the graf scene being dealt some hard blows. I was glad to see that the rat-tail/dread mullet combo is still going strong ;D

[Replete]

High above the city of Leeds is a new unoffical monument to the death of the UK's industry.

painted atop a derelict paint factory currently been demolished in order to build yet more city centre apartments no one will ever live in and are destined to end up the slums of tomorrow:

[top]

..sad but true..

..on a lighter note, that is a very apt place to graff..good picture too imo ..cant comment on the art, because I cant fully see it!

[Replete]

Here's the piece close up. I had to get it done ultra fast in under an hour in broad daylight in full view of the facing casino and hotels plus I had to sneak past the security guards and climbing up derelict lift shafts at night is not advisable ;D

[Richard]

I take it that's near Kirkstall? I go down the canal on my bike

[Replete]

yep it's yorkshire chemicals on kirkstall. I've been painting in there on and off for a few years.

[Richard]

Rather you than me! I wouldn't fancy climbing up that death trap!

[Avian Security]

That big canister bottom right of the first pic, that wants painting and all.

[Replete]

There's a security guard cabin a few metres from that big tank so it's not feasible to paint anything freehand on. I did plenty of other paintings in the factory tho including these:

[Deleted]

got to do some hand finished silkscreen editions mate. These are stunning. Top geezer

[Replete]

Got some screen prints based on my recent original portraits like these in the pipeline mate. Should be some out in the next few months, I'm waiting for prices back from the printers.

Ta,

R

[jynormous]

That last green and white canvas is simply stunning.

I love the detail and colour you manage to get without turning it into on giant blob.

With a bit of luck (well maybe a truck load of luck), Mike will be a good sport and send the green and white one my way ;D

[r1]

Jul 3, 2008 15:40:28 GMT 1 Replete said:

Got some screen prints based on my recent original portraits like these in the pipeline mate. Should be some out in the next few months, I'm waiting for prices back from the printers.

Ta,

R








Screen prints, great idea. Good luck with those. Rest in piece the chemicals works. We need to find some new places to paint.

[Replete]

New piece done in Leeds yesterday whilst dodgeing raindrops and lightning. BST=British Soaking Time ;D

[Rourke]

effing excellent stuff mate.

[Harveyn]

Great work Replete. Bet that brightened up the day for quite a few people.

[Agent Provocateur]

nice!!!! great title as well

[EdgeArt]

Very nice as always mate, lovely execution

[angel41]

Love everything about this. Excellent use of colour and texture. Nice work.

[doughy]

Wank!



Only joking, balance of image is top notch, I hope you were pleased with it!! A Beautiful piece!

[r1]

wicked mate, it reminds me of your water painting in Wiesbaden.

[Replete]

Cheers all and yeah mr R I painted it specifically so i could fling around a load of paint as I had the most fun in Wiesbaden chucking around those old scrap cans to do the water on the production.

[Daniel Silk]

Brilliant! ;D How long does it take you to do a piece like that?

[Replete]

This one took around 8 hours but I was there all day as I hide to keep hiding from storms chucking down cloudpiss.

[Replete]

Here's a selection photos of creating a massive mural on Great Eastern Street Shoreditch as part of The Meeting Of Styles London graffiti event.

The artists who created it are:

Alex martinez, Snug, Probs, Sune, Replete, Bonzai, Xenz, Busk and Lovepusher.






Sune



Sune, Xenz



Replete



Snug, Replete, Bonzai



Probs, Xenz, Replete



Xenz

[Replete]

We most certainly do need to put on our scout's outfits and go a rambling to find some new spaces Mr R.

[Replete]

Huge 5 storey wall painted last month in Wiesbaden Germany as part of the Meeting Of Styles global graffiti event, this production featuring:

Sune, Grown, Bird, Skenda, Inva, Seemso, Probs,?, Versoe, Rocket,?, Eon 75, Bonzai, Rota,?, Replete, Sune

A real saga painting this due to lots of writers who've never met before just being let loose on a huge wall and it descending into mostly grab a space while you can with not much thought to the concept (Which I was told was a Romanian theme to which i replied "what the f**k's a romanian theme? Is that like pikey vampires? Turns out they meant a Roman theme) .

The pieces came first and then a lot of writers just f**ked off after they'd done their own thing leaving us (mainly the UK writers and Bird and Skenda) to pick up the pieces and bodge a background round it as best we could.

We had very limited paint supplies given namely sabotaz (kinda s**te but getting better) and best of all we got given a box full of scrap cans consisting of a real history lesson of spraypaint. Their was weird ass italian montana which I used for the water (and had the best fun ever painting the waves in the river and waterfall at the bottom) and some tasty belton perfect (small can like hycote) which was the nicest orange ever that I used for the mud under my letters. We even had the first ever belton in cardboard labels around the can! One hilariously exploded in Sune's hand it was that old and crusty.

The wall changed constantly over the weekend with pieces and characters being buffed to make the overall wall work and things being repainted and painted some more to get there in the end.

So all in all we managed to salvage the wall from a fate worse than death and had a great time in the process featuring some classic moments involving many of the writers.

Honourable mentions go to Bonzai for his high altitude greek god cock insertion, sub bass snore offs with Sune at night and his mock posing in the Party Puff's Trans-Am sans piss coloured caravan.

Sune for all round rescue job and team leadership skills whilst still managing to remain nicely drunk throughout the proceedings.

And Manuel for putting on the whole event as you wouldnt believe some of the quality of productions going up over the weekend in a totally chilled atmosphere.


Ta very much,

R

[seidbereit]

Outstanding!! Great work.

Is the bridge in the piece based on Warschauer Brücke (Warsaw Bridge) in Berlin? Looks very like it to me.

[otomi]

Jul 8, 2008 19:25:12 GMT 1 seidbereit said:

Outstanding!! Great work.

Is the bridge in the piece based on Warschauer Brücke (Warsaw Bridge) in Berlin? Looks very like it to me.

The architect of the bridge killed him self after the bridge was finished because it was too low for boats to go under it. (true story) That is dedication to your job and taking responsibility.