Liberty Yellow

In *Liberty Yellow*, Stik distils the human figure to its most legible essentials—six brisk lines and a pulse of colour—demonstrating the graphic discipline that has made him a defining voice in contemporary street art. Set against a saturated yellow ground, the elongated body reads like a civic sign or urban glyph, engineered for instant recognition at scale.

Stik’s pared-back technique—hard-edged contours, flat fields, and emphatic negative space—channels modernist economy while retaining the emotional charge of public painting. The title’s invocation of “liberty” resonates with the artist’s longstanding engagement with visibility, community, and the right to occupy space, situating the work within London’s evolving social landscape and global conversations around public identity.

Stik, stylised as STIK, is a British graffiti artist based in London. Born in 1979, with no formal art school training, Stik is known for painting large stick figures that are six-lines, and two-dot figures.

Overview

Stik paints stick figure-like people as signature characters in street art. He began in London, working in its northeast area of Hackney, especially in Shoreditch, "and now paints murals all over the world in Europe, Asia and America."

His work is almost childlike in its simplicity and draws from the time he spent in Japan studying Japanese calligraphy characters known as kanji…