"Art in Hidden Places" watched Shantell Martin's imagination draw live with her digital pen. Daisha Hunter interviewed to find out what being a VJ is all about.
Since graduating from London's Central Saint Martins University of Art & Design with first class honors in graphic design and illustration in 2003, Shantell Martin has been expanding conventional definitions of drawing, using it as a base from which to storm and occupy the design, fashion and music scenes. Now based in Tokyo, Martin has been a much sought-after resident and guest VJ at some of the city's most experimental club nights and has collaborated with some of the best-known names in the fashion and music industry.
Like her drawings, Martin herself seems to be in an unstoppable state of constant and conscious movement: by turn illustrator, designer, VJ, artist, videographer and more, each persona is linked by the common thread of her trademark continuous-line style, each project a further entanglement of disciplines and an exploratory step into a new world the artist creates as she moves through it.
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