Author: Jon Hammer / ELATE

  • Brick Lane Hall of Fame-Totally Wiped Out by Council

    Brick Lane Hall of Fame-Totally Wiped Out by Council

    Sclater Street, Brick Lane, London, E1 Brick Lane Hall of Fame – Before Brick Lane Hall of Fame – After They are working their way around from Sclater Street to Bacon Street buffing everything. Anyone painting on the remaining space is told to stop immediately and move on or be arrested. I will be posting a…

  • New Graffiti: Elate & Tizer

    New Graffiti: Elate & Tizer

     Elate and Tizer Collaboration Freestyle, Sclater Street, Brick Lane This one was done on Thursday on Sclater Street, near Brick Lane, London E1, and was the first collaboration between myself and Tizer, who did the character and background, we were both happy with the end results. There’s also a Envy piece by Envy, Time and…

  • ‘Elate Circuit Splat’ Bites the Dust

    ‘Elate Circuit Splat’ Bites the Dust

    The Elate ‘Circuit Splat’ style painting I did for Meeting of Styles 2009 on the corner of Brick Lane and Bacon Street in East London had a good run for a piece, I’m not complaining, it held this space for nearly four months. This weekend it finally met it’s match at the hands of property…

  • Now There’s No Excuse!

    Now There’s No Excuse!

    Do you love graffiti? Maybe you’ve always wanted to learn but didn’t fancy getting arrested or even know where to start. Maybe you’ve tried tags or stencils and would like to learn can control skills and freehand techniques…Maybe your kids have already redecorated the garage and are running out of space or maybe you’d like…

  • London Handstyles Book Launch Tags

    London Handstyles Book Launch Tags

    The London Handstyles book is out now featuring tags by a selection of London graffiti writers from the mid eighties to the present, many who were considerably more prolific than myself. The launch party was on Friday in Rarekind Gallery below Chrome and Black graffiti art supplies shop on Bethnal Green Road by Brick Lane.…

  • Protect The Future: Elate 2005

    Protect The Future: Elate 2005

    Protect The Future: Graffiti by Elate 2005

  • Phosphene Generation: Analogue

    Phosphene Generation: Analogue

      Phosphene Generation: Cropped from Original Oil Painting – Inverted in Photoshop

  • Mystic Gems for the Western Snack Palate and Beyond

    Mystic Gems for the Western Snack Palate and Beyond

      I’ve started some new canvases, based on some old ideas. Some of these are mutating and jumping off onto paper into graffiti outlines. Rant begins after the jump…. I’ve dug into some old writing of mine from way back, in which I touch on the basis of this concept, expanding on a line of…

  • New Elate Piece: Brick Lane

    New Elate Piece: Brick Lane

    There’s a new Elate piece at the corner of Brick Lane and Bacon Street…  

  • New Graffiti: Brick Lane is a Christmas Tree

    New Graffiti: Brick Lane is a Christmas Tree

    Elate Tumbling Block, Brick Lane – photo © Romanywg 2009 Brick Lane was in a state of urgent need of some proper graffiti, We have been decorating it… Elate, Keen One Elate Keen One Elate, Keen One Elate Graffiti: Brick Lane MapNearest tube Liverpool Street or Aldgate East Elate, Fuel Keen, Fuel Elate Envy, Don, Aks Keen,…