EAST LONDON BORN. ART DEPT.™ FOUNDER. PROFESSIONAL RULE BENDER.

Growing up in East London in the 90s, I was surrounded by a mixture of street culture, graffiti, questionable fashion choices and the sort of characters you couldn't make up if you tried.

Art was always a big part of my world, which eventually led me to study Art & Design at college. That's where I got to experiment with different mediums, develop my own approach and discover that following the rules was never particularly my strong point.

My work today is a mixture of everything that's influenced me along the way. Nostalgia, cartoons, pop culture, graffiti, consumerism and the slightly ridiculous relationship we all have with money.

I use genuine currency as my canvas, taking something we're taught to value and turning it into something entirely different.

After all, money is just a bit of paper we've collectively agreed is worth something. Put some paint on it, give it a new identity, and suddenly that same bit of paper is worth discussing.

That's what interests me.

My work sits somewhere between street art, pop art and satire. Sometimes there's a deeper message, sometimes it's a nod to childhood, and sometimes I just think something would look brilliant across a dollar bill.

ART DEPT.™ — The Art Department is where it all comes together. A place for original artwork, questionable ideas and familiar things seen a little differently.

I don't believe art needs a complicated explanation to mean something.

Sometimes it just needs to make you look twice.

Real currency. Reimagined.

Stanley Millz