Liberty Teal

In *Liberty Teal*, Stik distils the human figure to its most resonant essentials: a spare, six-line body and circular head, rendered with graphic clarity against a field of teal. Rooted in London street art and public space, the artist’s pared-back approach functions like visual shorthand—immediately legible, emotionally direct, and universally accessible.

The work’s clean contours and assertive colour create a poster-like immediacy, while subtle surface variations suggest the hand-made urgency of mural practice translated into the gallery context. As with Stik’s most iconic figures, the simplified silhouette becomes a vessel for empathy, community, and visibility, speaking to contemporary debates around belonging, care, and civic 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…