Troika
Troika is an influential art collective which brings together three extraordinary artists. They each have had successful careers in the creative industries and throughout the last ten years have frequently come together to collaborate on projects devised around their passion for music, film and contemporary culture. Today, they come together as Troika and offer us an exciting and dynamic collection of paintings that give us an exclusive insight to their talents in street art, illustration and mixed media painting techniques.
Working in 'the Bunker', Troika's studio, they work together on every canvas and associate the experience to playing in a band where the guitarist, singer or drummer may take the lead at any given moment, but they still create the music together. Many of the references you see in their paintings are inspired by graffiti or street art that they have captured whilst exploring cities around the world.
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They begin each painting by preparing stencils and patterns which they create digitally and then work on by hand. They then build up the canvas layer by layer using mixed media and painted mediums that are inspired by the Far East and urban graphics, including spray paints, inks, acrylics and oils, and layer the stencils to create the image, often placing a figurative element as the final step. Troika have worked with Miyagi Restaurants and of their many commissions, their most memorable was painting Steven Gerrard’s Football boots.
A Blend of Styles - Street Art to Illustration
Their work is often influenced by other areas of culture, such as music, film and literature. Their dynamic paintings speak to this mixture of influences, as they are created through different methods. Their talents are such that they can lean towards street art in one piece, but then blend that with illustration in another, whilst their skills in mixed media painting techniques are everywhere apparent.
Collaborative Mixed Media
As mentioned above, each one of the three artists has had success in their respective fields. Their range of expertise goes from tattoo design to illustration to fine art and back. Members of the collective have worked with such names as Apple, Google and the BBC, as well as Glastonbury Festival. As well as producing art, they are passionate about sharing knowledge and making connections with passionate budding artists through various means. As such, they have also made an impact through university lecturing, communal art projects, and other philanthropic work.
Dynamic & Layered Paintings
You will be able to see from a piece of Troika artwork that their creative practice is full of energy and dynamics. They have likened it in fact to the way that a band might come up with a song, in the sense that each one can take the lead, whilst others can add in new ideas to maximise the effectiveness of the original concept. Their layered artwork is something that we never get tired of looking at. The vibrant colours and graffiti style textures pulsate through the artwork like nothing else. With our range of signed limited edition Troika prints, you can have a piece of this energy at home too.
Hypnotise - Troika (Signed Limited edition On Board) Trinity - Troika (Signed Limited Edition on Canvas)