Street art & graffiti art Consultancy
Our work
Brave Arts was set up by the graffiti artist 'Brave 1' (Scott Irving) in 2001.
"The plan was to give people an insight into an artform and a culture that has define my life, & my practice, graffiti art"
I Was hooked by the late 80's &
By the late 2010's Banksy had re-packaged our artform and graffiti had been re-branded as 'Street art!
We found ourselves at the forfront of the fasted growing art movement in history.
Now with over 2 decades in the Art industry Brave arts represents some of the most experienced service Providers in this sector.
Services:
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Working with councils, businesses & community organisations.
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Street art installations festivals & event consultation.
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Street art advertising.
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Teaching Workshops & team building days.
our Clients include...
House hold name brands popular TV shows and celebrities...
What the Papers say!
Press & media coverage
Our Story
Statement from the artist Brave 1 - managing director & founder Brave Arts
Thanks for visiting braveone.co.uk
The story is pretty simple. Scotty Brave, Graffiti art lover, turned graffiti art maker turned graffiti art teacher!
Scotty is a Youth worker, mentor & advocate of achieving positivity through sharing a passion for art.
"This graffiti bug I caught way back when I was a kid turned out to be the very same skill set I needed to help others achieve their visions. To build a business & to travel & work for a wide range of different clients, organisations & charities.
Painting with spray-cans is a lot of fun. When I was a l kid in the 80's I drew lots of graffiti, and as a school boy I learnt how to spray paint it.
Nowadays spraycans have become the tools of my trade, & the medium I paint best in.
After doing a degree in Graphic design, In 1997 I saw an opportunity to make my life long intrest in Graffiti, pay!
At first it just paid for itself, - leftover spraycans helped subsidize my spraypainting habit. Allowing me to afford to paint more regularly!
Soon I was spray-painting things for work regularly too, Living off left over spraycans, I painted some of my benchmark peices. & my emergence onto the U.K. Graffiti art Scene was firmly established by the late 1990's.
Through out the years of doing this sort of work, I’ve managed to maintain a healthy balance of painting walls for work, & for pleasure.
This means I still paint just for pleasure, regularly. I enjoy painting & still get-up (paint graffiti ) just for the kick & for the knowing that I can!
I know many members of the team I work with feel the same.
I think this makes us unlike many street artists currently working commercially in the art industry.
Coupled with our passion for this artform, we all have well established Roots & with that comes knowledge, understanding, respect & admiration for the pioneers.
For a lot of us Adult graffiti artists it remains a tradition, part of our culture. A social thing as much as its a personal thing.
We've watched the graffiti art scence develop & evolve into what it is today. We've played our part in this.
Attitudes have evolved, technique have too, so has the paint! We've seen developments in the manufacture of spray paint, Open up new possibilities & make Spraycan art accessible & achievable to so many more people.
The recent growth in popularity & mainstream acceptance of street art/graffiti has inevitably taken its toll on aspects effecting the quantity & quality of our beloved Art form. However....
Here you will find top quality work from genuine graffiti artists.
Thank you for visiting Brave Arts at Braveone.co.uk I hope you find what you are looking for."
Interviews with Scotty Brave_Arts
Talking street art with Scotty Irving (Brave Arts) Art UK https://share.google/fndb23uvvUBhxqMJx
New city gallery
interview
2022
Artist Bio from Scotty Brave_Arts
Scott graduated from university in London in the 90’s with a Graphic Design degree. By his late teens he had become one of the pioneers of delivering spray-can-art workshops in the UK. He has been a consistently active contributor to the scence for 20+ years.
Born in Basildon 1975, schooled in Benfleet, he studied art college in Thurrock Essex.
Scott trained & worked as a detached youth-worker running hundreds of spraycan art workshops & events for schools & youth-clubs, secure-units & PRUs; pioneering spray-can-art within education.
Regularly published in international graffiti journal ‘Graphotism’,
His work also has been published in several lankmark books about the culture.
Scott has developed his creative practive with grants from Arts Council England & had residencies with Eastern Arts Board, Metal & the Firstsite gallery. He has delivered workshops for Tate London & the V&A museum, working with 'Graffiti Life’, ‘Graffiti Kings’ & Global street art ‘agencies.
completing a variety of projects including set designs for Disney channel, projections for Tate’s Turbine Hall & hand painted advertising for clients like calvin clien, just eat & google, through his work with global street art agency.
Independent commissioned work have included many local & city council partnerships, consultation with Southend city council prior to the hugely successful city jam street art festivals. Work for TV & film including T.O.W.I.E. Eastenders, P&G. LTD & Anglia water.
Whilst working commercially Scott has also continued to paint hundreds of personal pieces hidden from the public & only seen by other graffiti artists, urban explorers or trespassers!
Many of his most notable pieces were created & destroyed within a week.
The short term /renewable nature of his work is something Scott has been reflecting on recently & he is currently exploring where his work & his experiences sit within the flourishing street art scene
Brave_Arts foundation Misson statement:
At Brave Arts we are proud that our heritage in this art form can be traced back to the Traditions & values of the pioneers of style writing & graffiti art. Those artists that during the 1980's in New York set the standard & laid the foundations of the style of art we continue to practice today.
Undoubtedly we have been part of the largest growing new forms of painting in recent art history, & we promise to continue to push the boundaries of whats possible with spray paint.
"Our art education programs seek to preserve the raw, cultural heart of street art by creating a sustainable ecosystem that supports artists, educates the next generation, and gifts bold, accessible art to the public."
Systemwise for Culture vision Southend 2020 - 2025.
Systemwise street art consultancy. – By Brave Arts.
Realising the potential of street art in a town near you!
Statement from Scotty B 2019.
" I have a vision for this town, I'd like art and inspiration to replace the banal the derelict and the bland.'
As an artist Scotty has been in the business of transforming places and spaces under the handle @Brave_Arts for 20 years. In this his 21st year in the business he seems more determined than ever to create a meaningful and cohesive street art campaign in his town.
Clearly there are parts of town that need more than a lick of paint to fix it up 'n look sharp.
Some might say its a sticking plaster on a serious problem I say it's a thin layer of colours that starts the healing process.
'Handled properly street art benefits towns enormously. From reinventing spaces to linking with community projects, schools, local history tourism and business.'
Additional Legacy bio:
Scott Irving: Company Director
Brave Arts | Uniting People, changing places & spaces Through Spray-Can-Art.
Scott Irving. AKA Scotty Brave has been an artist ambassador for the UK's graffiti & street art movement Playing an era defining role in the UKs acceptance of 'outsider art'.
A Basildon-born Guyanese/British mixed heritage artist, he first got into graffiti around 1987. Teaching his first ‘graffiti art workshop’ in 1997. After studying for a degree in Graphic design, he established BRAVE_ARTS in 2001 with the simple, belief: that art, particularly the type of spray-can-art born of hip-hop culture, could fundamentally change peoples lives benefit communities and reinvent places & spaces.
For almost 3 decades, Scotty has cemented his reputation as an aerosol art practitioner who has successfully merged the skills set of a graffiti artist with professional, high-impact public mural commissions & education programs.
Scotty’s practice is anchored in the framework of hip-hop culture utilizing its principles of expression and self mastery.
This cultural strategy has been crucial in positioning Brave Arts not just as a creative service but as an entrepreneurial innovator. Dedicated to the development of spray-can-art & to persuing community cohesion by improving lives & uniting people through celebrating arts & culture ”.
Refered to as a "post modern vandal" channeling the rebellious history of the medium of spraypaint into inspiring educational initiatives & large-scale mural projects.
Brave Arts work is "proven to increase revenue for businesses and create positive, measurable effects across communities".
Technically, Scotty is renowned for his mastery of the spray can, capable of executing detailed high-end photorealism. Known for his surrealist 7 eyed tigers & his unique ‘Glitch Aesthetic’ which is a signature style that fragments subjects, offering a sophisticated commentary on modern media, digitalization and image corruption. This technique was showcased in his landmark 36-foot mural of Sir David Attenborough in Southend, a project that quickly transformed the cities urban landscape paving the way for the city jam murals on the same wall by the American master @Jeks_nc.
Scott Irving operates in a dual capacity: As a practicing artist and as an award-winning Youth Worker and Teacher.
This commitment to pedagogy is integral to Brave Arts' success. Through ‘Graffiti and street art in Schools’ and specialized workshops, Scotty establishes himself as an authority having been an ECC Youth Worker for 15 years (post austerity) and an assistant Art teacher in an SEN school for eight years.
His outreach work has played a critical role in the "rising popularity of street art as a respected and dynamic modern art expression"
Scotty has been awarded grants from Arts Council England ACE & regularly secures project contracts with councils throughout Essex, London & the South East.
His international projects include trips to Germany, Denmark & the Nederlands to deliver public mural projects.
Brave Arts also opertates Braveone.co.uk launched in 1999 it was one of the first independant graffiti artist websites. Where he shocases an extensive on-line portfolio, blog & robust e-commerce presence. Reaching global collectors with his spraypainted canvas and variety of printed works.
Scotty Brave Arts continues to push the boundaries of what is achievable with spray paint, validating street art as the largest modern art movement in recent history, and an essential resource for youth development urban renewal and dynamic advertising strategy.
Get in touch, lets create some thing together that makes a difference.
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