Sophie Walraven

This cage we live in is getting smaller and smaller. I don’t know how to break out of it, but I can paint on the bars.

Bottles and dresses in Amsterdam

1 Because I want YOU to be able to see my work without having to go to a gallery, museum or my studio. I think art should be out on the streets for everyone to see.
2 Because I want to make the city a little prettier.
3 Because I hate the way everything is getting regulated and boring around me. It feels like people like to march and live in a clean city without any surprises. What the F is going on with everyone?
4 Because I like the rush of things, everything else bores the # out of me.

These are only a handful, if you click on the pictures you will see more. (a lot more)

Birds in the streets of Amsterdam

In November 2007, I snuck into the streets of Amsterdam to paste the big birds that I had been making in my studio. This time of year was not very well picked since it was raining a lot and VERY windy. My birds went flying instead of staying put ont their walls. This is the reason that I don’t have many pictures of them bij daylight. Most of them haven’t ever seen the sun. So there, you win some, you lose some.

Horses in Amsterdam

The summer of 2006, after New Delhi, I went completely wild on the subject ‘Horses’. I had them lying around all over my studio. Large colorful running energetic superass horses.
But they belonged in the city. So there. In two weeks time I pasted up to a hundred horses all over my city. I turned Amsterdam into a super outdoor gallery, or maybe better, an arena. It reminded me a lot of the ancient Lascaux Caves.