“SHE SLAPS!” featured artist: Yarn Vandalette (Germany)
- Published
- in "SHE SLAPS!" traveling exhibition, all, Character design, Featured artist
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Please provide a brief description of your work.
I am a crochet girl – crochet queen some people say! – with an heavy addiction to street art. I was fascinated by graffiti since the mid-eighties. I kind of grew up on old school Hip-hop and graffiti was huge part of it. But I was never brave enough to go out with the cans myself (what a shame, I still regret it ?), I rather kept on dancing and admiring the art.
When I relearned crochet a couple of years ago ( I haven´t done it in about 30 years) I started making jewelry, but when I saw some pictures of people putting up crochet pieces in the streets, I knew this is what I would like to do. To be able so send some stuff to other people I shrunk the pieces to stickers. So the Vandal Girl sticker, which is my alter ego, was born. It is my trademark, so to say ?
Does being a female artist, or identifying as a female artist, influence your work, and if so, how?
Yeah, I would say It does influence my work. Crochet is always associated with girls and some people regard it as old fashioned. Besides being a female in a still male dominated street art world, I like to come up with ‘not so cute’ pieces in crochet. Female isn´t always pink and crochet isn´t always doilies or amigurumi. I like to make ‘outsider art’ inspired pieces best. Just thinking outside the box.
What’s the best thing about being a female artist in the sticker world?
I love best the community in the female sticker world. You walk into a exhibition and right away start chatting with other sticker girls (of all ages!!!). You start trading. Everyone I met so far, was friendly, outspoken and very welcoming. Like one big family.
Is there anything else you’d like to share?
Hmmmh… Let me think …. JUST THIS: Keep on having fun, girls, and let´s stick together!
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Special thanks to Oliver Baudach, Hatch Kingdom, Berlin, Germany, for his work to organize the SHE SLAPS! Street Art Stickers by Women Artists from Around the World traveling exhibition.
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