Tell us about what you do?
I’m a graphic design student who draws and make stickers. I’ve always found drawing relaxing; I drew throughout
school, and started watching cartoons from which I developed my own drawing style.
Where do you get your inspiration?
Uh, from some natural herbs, Adventure Time, and other
street artist doing some great work like Houl, JRB and Mulga.
What's the story behind your name?
This girl, who dropped out of beauty school, didn’t have a
job; told me I was going to be a no-hoper if I continued doing graffiti. This is
whilst I was doing a double degree and working 3 jobs. So I thought of the
typical idea of a no-hoper, so like a kid, in a onesie, with his arse hanging
out, smoking a doub and giving you the finger. So I drew that and then I pasted
that all over her front door, just like “Fuck you bitch.”
So that’s where I came up with the idea of No Hope Kid, then
I started drawing by doing different onsies with different types of animals.
From there I started to really enjoy spending time drawing so I reworked my
style to what it is now; more like Regular Show style and from there I started adding
beards, because I like beards. Then I started doing animals, my hipster monkey
and birds. I love birds, and anteaters and honey badgers; they are da bidness.
So once I had developed that style that I liked, I started
to stick them up more. I recently gave out a whole bunch of stickers on campus
so people could stick them up themselves.
What's next for No Hope Kid?
I want to make some t-shirts, I’ve just started doing
skateboards, want to do more installation art on surfboards and across multiple
skateboards as panel art. And then I want to start doing a bit of industrial design,
and some more paste ups.
Have you done paste-ups before?
Yeah, paste ups and spray painting around Curtin. They’re
gone now though; we have this guy in Curtin with ski goggles, and like a life
jacket who cycles around and spray paints over graffiti paint with the wall
colour paint and like, tears down paste ups. And I know who he is, cause I make
coffee for him at work, and I’m like “I’m the guy you’re tearing down!”
Where can we find more of your work?
Braddon, Mawson, Civic, on the UC Campus, Curtin.
