CATMAN IS A STREET ARTIST BASED BETWEEN WHITSTABLE KENT AND LONDON. STUDYING ARCHITECTURAL MODEL MAKING AT (UCA) THE UNIVERSITY OF CREATIVE ARTS ROCHESTER WHERE HE GAINED HIS FINE SCALPEL SKILL WHILE PRODUCING SCALE ARCHITECTURAL MODELS, A SKILL USED TODAY IN THE STENCIL USE WITHIN HIS PAINTINGS.
AFTER REALISING HOW MUCH HE MISSED ART HE LATER RETURNED TO CANTERBURY (UCA) TO STUDY FINE ART WHERE HE RE-FOUND HIS PASSION TO PAINT. CATMANâS STREET ART HAS BECOME RENOWNED FOR THE HIGH LEVEL OF DETAIL HE PUTS INTO HIS PIECES ON THE STREET AND THIS HAS BEEN REFLECTED WITH HIS WORK BEING FEATURED IN THE âI SUPPORT STREET ARTâ COLLECTION OF BEST STREET ART FROM AROUND THE GLOBE MAY 2016.
IN APRIL 2015 ITV NEWS FOLLOWED UP MURAL CATMAN HAD PAINTED OVER NIGHT ON A HOMELESS SHELTER WITH A NEWS REPORT ON HIS ARTWORK AND PERVIOUS ARTWORKâS QUESTIONING HIS IDENTITY WHICH MANAGED TO STAY ANONYMOUS. AS A STABLE ARTIST OF LONDONâS GRAFFIK GALLERY HE HAS EXHIBITED ALONGSIDE SOME OF LONDONâS MOST EXCITING UP AND COMING URBAN ARTISTâS.
LISTED AS A FINALIST FOR THE STENCIL ART PRIZE IN 2014 AND 2015 IN SYDNEY CATMAN EXHIBITED ALONGSIDE SOME OF THE FINEST STENCIL ARTISTâS IN THE WORLD AT THE AMBUSH GALLERY IN WHAT IS REGARDED TO BE THE MOST RENOWNED STENCIL ART COMPETITION IN THE WORLD.
