Profile and CV

Julian Phethean - Artist

I have always been a keen artist and in between scribbling graffiti on every available surface as a youngster I found time to produce my first commissioned graffiti art mural at the age of 12 yrs. From this time I was obsessively into the graffiti art scene but still managed to focus on getting through school and into Art College where I trained in Art and Design in the early nineties.

This is when I first began to play with other art forms and discovered my love of painting. I then progressed onto university in 1997 to complete a degree in Fine Art with Art Practice and the Community at Middlesex University, London where I began to develop my painting and interest in art therapy/community work.

After my graduation being chosen as a finalist in the Mercury Art and Music Prize launched my career as a professional artist and I had my work shown at the Air Gallery and Art ’98, London. Since then I have had numerous commissions and exhibitions of my paintings in and around London including solo shows at: The Oxo Tower, South Bank, London and the Stables Gallery, Dollis Hill, London.

In between being a practicing fine artist and graffiti artist I now run my own community arts business ‘positive Arts’ focussing on educational art projects with young people. All of these different and interlinked areas influence and feed off one another to help define my style as an artist and individual.

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