Moniker Art Fair

Moniker Art Fair Led by an all-women team, we spotlight talent from the Contemporary, Urban & Digital Art Movements. Contemporary Art Business
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08/06/2026

4 artists, 1 extraordinary location, and a whole lot of love 🎨🇲🇽🤍

Take a look at this short recap of our very first Moniker Art Residency in beautiful Tulum, Mexico - 10 unforgettable days of creativity, connection, inspiration and hard work, all jam-packed into one minute.

🌍 We were overwhelmed to receive nearly 300 applications from artists around the world. Selecting just four participants was no easy task, but our judging panel were blown away by the exceptional talent and innovative approaches of:

✨ Lorenzo Fontanella
✨ Karina Vazquez
✨ Dan Ferrer
✨ Alessia Innocenti

From the very beginning, our amazing Director, Tina Ziegler, worked tirelessly to create something that extended beyond a traditional residency experience, ensuring that the artists
experienced “nature immersion, meditation and breathwork sessions, soul-nourishing home-cooked Mexican food, community workshops, guided discussions with industry experts, and so much more.”

🙏🫂🫶 What unfolded over those 10 days was truly special. We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who helped bring this experience to life, and to the artists who embraced it so wholeheartedly.

A little bit of magic happened here, and we hope you can feel it too 🪄

🎨 Art by: .day.dreams
🤩 Selected by: .art
🎬 Video by: .araujoo
🌱✨ Brought to life by: .art .art, in partnership with & .mx

🦹🏼‍♀️ Introducing our new “Female Perspective” series! 🙋🏼‍♀️As a brand that has been led by an all female team for over ...
08/07/2024

🦹🏼‍♀️ Introducing our new “Female Perspective” series!

🙋🏼‍♀️As a brand that has been led by an all female team for over 15 years, Moniker is proud to present this new feature brought to you through the lens of female photographer Hannah Judah, who’s journey we have followed for many years.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 To kick us off we have Scottish-based,
female artist KMG whom has been making work on the street for over a decade.

🔍 Focusing on this year’s Nuart Festival, she has painted a trio of outstanding murals at Aberdeen Airport - see below for more information on each.

💚 Starting with the green mural - ‘Scáthach’ is a legendary Scottish Female warrior who trained other Celtic gods in the art of combat.

🖤 “I painted a smaller Scáthach on the streets last year to represent the strong women in my life but she didn’t last long so I wanted to bring her back bigger, stronger and prouder.”

💙 ’Brigid’ is the Celtic Godess of healing, fire, agriculture, poetry & fertility. Brigid is also said to rule the summer months, her arrival signifying the beginning of spring and the end of winter months ruled by Bhéara.

📆 What’s up next for KMG? “I’ll be painting at in Ireland before Breda in the Netherlands for Blind Walls Gallery.”

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💅🏻Scratch the Surface Saturday with Daisy Cox! 👋🏻 Hi everyone! My name is Daisy. I’ve loved art for as long as I can rem...
29/06/2024

💅🏻Scratch the Surface Saturday with Daisy Cox!

👋🏻 Hi everyone! My name is Daisy. I’ve loved art for as long as I can remember – including at school & university, where I majored in Fine Art & History of Art – & am now lucky enough to have forged a career that surrounds me with creativity & the chance to work with the most incredible talent all over the world.

❓Tell us a bit more about what you do?

I am an independent art advisor, collector & curator. The great advantage of being independent, is that I can champion new artists AND provide access to established ones. This gives my clients the best of all worlds: the chance to buy-into exciting new work from emerging artists; as well as being able to add renowned names to their collections.

I work with artists I love to release limited edition prints and place their originals with my collectors, giving them a platform for their creativity that isn’t always possible through traditional galleries. This is what drives my purpose: greater access to the greatest art.

❓Favourite artists of all time. One living one dead

Great question! If pushed, I’d say Picasso is my all-time favourite artist. One of my earliest art-based memories is standing in front of Demoiselles d’avignon in the GOMA. I was mesmerised by the scale and powerful ferocity of the figures.

As for living artists, there are so many I admire and my passion as a curator is to introduce this wealth of creative talent to the world. Yayoi Kusama is a standout for me and definitely on my collection bucket list! & I can’t not mention Oli Epp, who I am lucky enough to have met as a teenager - watching Oli develop his iconic style & produce some of my all-time favourite works is one of my greatest art world pleasures - & a big reason I am so excited by today’s emerging talent!

🌼 Daisy’s one to watch

I first discovered Mia Faithfull at a Carl Kostyál exhibition, where her work was displayed alongside Oli Epp. The concept of her work in today’s age of social media takes on an intriguing and slightly twisted edge. Mia has huge potential; I can’t wait to see what she does next …

🤍 Thank you, Daisy! A pleasure to speak with you!

Good morning and calling all Banksy lovers!🎙️Introducing - The Banksy Broadcast: your new information point on the world...
24/06/2024

Good morning and calling all Banksy lovers!

🎙️Introducing - The Banksy Broadcast: your new information point on the world’s most elusive artist.

Once a week, we will be sharing interesting stories and educational details to provide an insight on subjects like; authenticity, lost/removed street works, artwork meanings, street work locations, back catalogue info, auction results and so much more.

🐀Tune in and enjoy!
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Featured: “Morning is Broken”

Last year, a property developer demolished the 500-year-old farmhouse in Kent to make way for new housing, apparently site workers said they “felt sick” once they learnt what they’d destroyed - an original Banksy.


🥳 As Upfest continues, so does our coverage!💕 We had the pleasure of teaming up with Street Art Photo Royalty - Hannah J...
31/05/2024

🥳 As Upfest continues, so does our coverage!

💕 We had the pleasure of teaming up with Street Art Photo Royalty - Hannah Judah - as our tour buddy this year, so here’s the festival through her expert eye and a little Q&A so (if you don’t already) you can learn a little about her!

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❓Introduce yourself and how it was that you got into photographing street art after such an interesting career in film and interior design.

👋🏻 Hey. I’m Hannah and I’m a street art photographer based in Brighton. I think a lot of creatives have varying degrees of visual acuity; I’ve always been drawn to colour and just know what looks ‘right’ to my mind. I’ve never been one to sit still and I’m not quite sure whether I found street art or whether street art found me. Being an ex raver, the communal and rebellious nature of urban art naturally appealed to me, and slowly through the early days of taking casual snaps here and there, and posting them on this platform, things just snowballed. I got commissioned by agencies and festivals…and eventually my street art photography became a legitimate ’thing’.

❓Do you remember your first ever shot?

📱I shot Banksy’s ‘Mild Mild West’ in Bristol on a prehistoric iPhone over a decade ago. The quality of the shot was rubbish, but I had plenty of tangles with the law in Bristol as a teenager, so the piece stuck a real chord!

❓Tell us more about your upcoming book!

📖 All I can say at this point is that it’s been two years in the making and the curator has put a very fresh spin on the how my images have been showcased. Obviously this book covers a lot of previous years work, but we wanted to include images as fresh as last week when I was at UPFEST. It definitely won’t be a slim book but well worth the pennies. I promise to keep you looped in nearer to the release date!

🐊 Layla Andrews is an artist who’s spent the majority of her career working between south London and Brighton - named in...
20/05/2024

🐊 Layla Andrews is an artist who’s spent the majority of her career working between south London and Brighton - named in 2022 as one of The Evening Standards ‘22 London women changing the world’.

🐚 She’s best known for her figurative paintings that draw inspiration from a combination of the natural world, familial narratives, and miscellaneous second-hand objects. Her artworks often feature a diverse cast of recurring characters, ranging from human figures to crocodiles and crustaceans.

🖌️ Central to Layla’s practice is storytelling; celebrating simple joys, the complexities of identity and the juxtaposition of unlikely pairs. Whilst deeply personal, she hopes the ambiguous nature of her work welcomes interpretation and therefore accessibility to the viewer.

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🎉 To mark the 50th anniversary of this incredible brutalist style architecture, built in 1973 by Rinaldo Olivieri, KATRE...
18/05/2024

🎉 To mark the 50th anniversary of this incredible brutalist style architecture, built in 1973 by Rinaldo Olivieri, KATRE - a Parisian born visual artist - created this massive beaut of a piece as a tribute.

🔺‘The Pyramid’ stands at 60 x 15 metres tall and compliments its concrete partner perfectly.

📸 Katre’s works are based on photographs of disused urban-industrial buildings. He usually then overlays these with abstract energy-related elements derived from the formal language of graffiti letters.

☝🏻On the one hand, his painted or sculptural wedges and arrows suggest energies that transcend visible structures; on the other, they still function as the writer’s stylistic trademark.

🔀 “Everybody’s got their own arrow!”

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📝 The journey of our “Leave Your Mark” chalk wall during the course of our latest exhibition at the STRAAT museum in Ams...
15/05/2024

📝 The journey of our “Leave Your Mark” chalk wall during the course of our latest exhibition at the STRAAT museum in Amsterdam - ‘Moniker: An Origin Story.”

🖍️ A moniker, also known as a streak, tag, or hobo art, is a form of graffiti typically found on American freight trains. Created with tools like solid paint sticks or industrial crayons, monikers serve as a means for artists to share stories or capture a moment in time - we invited our guests to leave their own mark!

🔦 The exhibition spotlit iconic moniker artists, with a special focus on the enduring creative friendship between Russell Butler, also known as buZ blurr, and Bill Daniel, spanning over 30 years.

🤍 In a heartfelt tribute, we also acknowledged the passing of the beloved Butler in January 2024, and so the show of like-minded makers took on an even more poignant role in honoring his lasting legacy.

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🎂🎈As The Warhol Museum’s 30th Birthday is coming up, we thought we’d have a little flashback to 2014 when Brazilian stre...
13/05/2024

🎂🎈As The Warhol Museum’s 30th Birthday is coming up, we thought we’d have a little flashback to 2014 when Brazilian street artist KOBRA portrayed Andy Warhol himself alongside his friend and fellow artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

🟪 The mural was re-imagined - in Kobra’s unforgettable style - from the iconic exhibition poster for the duo’s 1985 collaboration show “Paintings”.

🥊 The bold and highly contrasted photograph, shot by American photographer Michael Halsband, has become one of the most iconic portraits of the two artists - lasting evidence of their friendship and competitiveness.

🌈 Eduardo Kobra utilizes bright colours and bold lines while staying true to a kaleidoscope theme throughout his art. The technique of repeating squares and triangles allows him to bring to life the famous people he depicts in his images.

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