About street artists StudioZEPA

What the street artists murals and artwork represent:

Street artists StudioZEPA purposefully use colours in a counter intuitive way, which often disguises their subject matter in abstract forms.

The artist duo uses a variety of mediums, specializing in spray paint and acrylics. By combining their painting techniques with vivid colours and illustrative line work, the style of their artworks is easily distinguishable.

The patterns in their artworks experiment with how certain colours interact with each other, and the eye. A zebra looks grey from a distance as the black and white stripes blur and mix. Up close the black and white stripes are clearly visible. Many colours can appear different when placed next to complimentary (or not so complimentary) colours for example. The way colours can be mixed by the eye is symbolic of how cultures cross pollinate across the world.

Studio Zepa paintings capture the viewer’s imagination, while bringing forms out of the abstract colours, while discovering how colour tricks the eye.

The colour application and pattern work represent diversity of cultures, stereotypes, paradigms, depicting all humans equally vibrant though the Studio ZEPA multi coloured lens. Combining all these elements also symbolizes the diversity, and complexity, of today’s society.

About the street artists that make StudioZEPA

Studio Zepa is the collaboration of Zesta and Page33.

Zesta began as a graffiti artist in 2000. First focusing on lettering, he quickly graduated to characters and finally realism.

Page33 studied fine art, fashion and dance. She was working at one of South Africa’s most prestigious galleries when they met in Johannesburg, in 2011.

They worked together as Unity Murals in South Africa from 2010 to 2019 successfully as full-time mural artists. At the end of 2019 they moved to The Netherlands to grow and develop their art further and bring it to a larger audience.

The street artists inspirations:

Fauvism, cubism, colour interpretation, graffiti lettering, traditional spray-painting techniques graphic and illustrative linework. The shapes are often inspired by the arm and body movements used to create graffiti lettering, which is used to help emphasizing flow and form.

Location – Where are street artists StudioZEPA based?

Their studio is in The Netherlands but they travel around the world to create murals on request. Prints and paintings from the street artists is available on their online store too.

Brands that have worked with the artists include:

Their mural paintings have been created in a variety of different spaces. From public art installations to wall decoration for corporate spaces or wall art private collectors. Often they work with councils to create public art that uplifts areas bringing colour and life to spaces in cities.

They have exhibited artworks in two continents and have been published in news papers across South Africa and the Netherlands. Their artworks are in international museums and art galleries like STRAAT Museum in Amsterdam and the Kunstmuseum in Den Haag.

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