Nuart Aberdeen 2026

Alisa Oleva

Alisa Oleva is a walking artist based in London who works within the spaces and streets of the city, exploring the politics of public space, how the city moves us and how we move it, urban choreography and urban archaeology, traces and surfaces, borders and inventories, intervals and silences, passages and cracks. She creates one-to-one and collective performances, walking scores, personal and intimate encounters, gatherings, soft parkour sessions, walkshops, soundwalks, and audiowalks.

@alisaoleva

Ciaran Globel

Ciarán Glöbel is a signpainter and designer from Glasgow. Inspired by the graphic ephemera of a bygone era, he uses traditional lettering techniques in a contemporary manner and creates typographic treatments using enamel and aerosol paint on reclaimed polyvinyl. Ciarán has painted murals & signs internationally for over 15 years and in the summer of 2025, co-founded 'Grateful' an independent art gallery in Glasgow catering for fans of graffiti, mural culture and design, alongside friends Conzo Throb and OhPandah.

@ciaranglobel

dr d AKA Subvertiser

dr.d is a veteran street artist and ‘subvertiser’ based in London. Using a cut and paste technique developed in the fly posting industry of the 90’s to ‘doctor’ everything from big brand billboards to bus stops and beyond, dr.d mimics the scale and visibility of advertising to raise awareness about who has the power and authority to communicate messages and create meaning in our urban environment.

The act of subverting advertisements (or ‘subvertising’) has long been utilised as a tool for social commentary and protest within the field of street art. dr.d’s wry and insightful observations often appear in response to current affairs and social debate, providing a subversive take on mainstream news and media.

@subvertiser

HICKS

HICKS is a London mural artist working through the tradition of the sublime landscape in British Romanticism. Over the last 20 years his work has covered divination, masks, Jung, folk saints, and eventually ending up exploring the line between apocalypse and transcendence, dawn and dusk. To place the immortal classic alongside graffiti, into the ephemeral public domain is to deterritorialise our/art history. Evoking narratives that explore radical theology, cataclysm and thus, responsibility.

His current mural and studio practice comes from, yet stands in opposition to the pop, market led sensibilities of street art and modern muralism.

@ed_hicks

James Klinge

James Klinge (b. 1983) is an artist from Glasgow, Scotland that brings an exciting contemporary approach to traditional forms of portraiture and figurative painting, specialising with hand cut stencils and spray paint. The subjects in his paintings aim to tell a story whether from historic influence and sources or based on current affairs.

Whilst inspired by the classical masters of figurative painting, Klinge has dedicated the past two decades developing his control of spray paint and manipulates it in a unique way. The texture and mark making create the illusion of something closer to oil painting than something straight from a can.

@jamesklinge_art // jamesklinge.com

KMG

KMG is a Scottish artist who has been creating work on the street for over a decade.

Inspired by the Celtic folklore stories that have shaped her own cultural identity, her work is created to celebrate, revive and reclaim the mythologies and history of oral story telling that are often overlooked and forgotten.

Her work explores how marginalised communities have been impacted by different social agendas and the effect this has had on our cultural legacies, connections and landscapes.

KMG uses her work as a catalyst to provoke questions on how these stories and myths translate to modern society, and the ways in which they are connected to our cultural identity and contemporary environments.

@kmgyeah

Molly Hankinson

Molly is a English born artist living and working in Glasgow, Scotland. Her work interrogates daily life through the nuances of safety, space, and perception, deconstructing ideas of personal and collective gendered experiences into her playful, emotive, and energetic artworks. She tries to listen to what form may suit her ideas best, working across large-scale mural work, print, and smaller scale installations. More recently she has been leaning into abstraction as a form of release and exploration. Overall, Molly is particularly interested in how her art can evoke a feeling, offer comfort, and serve as sites of power.

@mollyhankinson.studio // mollyhankinson.com

Remi Rough

Remi Rough creates meticulously composed abstract paintings defined by precision, rhythm and chromatic intensity. His early years as a style writer, emerging from the graffiti movement, continue to inform the architectural structure and disciplined geometry that underpin his practice today.

Since the early 2000s, Rough has developed a body of work spanning canvas, paper, wood, brick and concrete. A leading figure within the graffuturism and post graffiti movements, Rough has exhibited internationally and produced major murals in cities worldwide for over three decades.

From his teenage involvement in what remains the only art movement created and driven by youth culture to the international recognition of his work today, Rough continues to expand and refine a practice grounded in structure, movement and colour.

@remirough

Robert Montgomery

Robert Montgomery is a Scottish contemporary artist well known for his work in public space. He makes light works, billboard poems, fire poems, woodcuts, paintings and watercolours. His work brings text art closer to the language of poetry. He represented the UK in the 2012 Kochi Biennale and the 2016 Yinchuan Biennale. His work is in museum collections across the world including the Albright Knox in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. He has had solo museum projects at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado, Oklahoma Contemporary in Oklahoma City, and the Cer Modern Museum in Ankara. His work was recently included in the Musée du Louvre exhibition “La Suite de l’Histoire” in Paris. His work is hugely popular on the internet, the piece “The People You Love Become Ghosts Inside of You” has been shared online more than 200 million times.

@robertmontgomeryghost // @robertmontgomerystudio // robertmontgomery.org

The Rebel Bear

The street artist, known as ‘The Rebel Bear’ has been creating street art over the last 10 years throughout Scotland as well as London, Calais, Havana, Mumbai & New York. His work is currently being exhibited in galleries across the UK and the US, as well as his work being displayed in the National Museum of Scotland and the Museum of Cardiff. The themes of his work cover politics, love, human emotion and comment on the ‘absurdity’ of the world we have created.

@the.rebel.bear

The Writing Is On The Wall

When this weird thing called a ‘global pandemic’ came along ramming a big stick into the hamster wheel of life the words came gushing out, they continue to do so. A close friend of mine encouraged me to publish my words. The thought of seeing my poems laying sad and lonely in a dusty book on a well-heeled living room coffee table gave me the shivers, so, with a bucket of paste, a trusty brush and latterly my trusty poetry pistola i took my words to the streets. For centuries people have taken to walls to express themselves, to challenge mainstream media on a medium that is accessible to all free of charge. From the back of toilet doors to city walls debate has raged through generations. In these dystopian times it is imperative that voices be heard and opinions shared. the streets is where i share mine.

I find true joy in ripping and pasting my words on unsuspecting walls as the changing seasons batter the paste ups the impermanence brings me a source of great inspiration.

@thewritingisonthewall.art

Trackie McLeod

Trackie McLeod is a Scottish artist based in Glasgow. Trackie uses sculpture, textiles, video and print to explore his lived experience. He is interested in ideas of masculinity and queerness and their intersection with class, politics and popular culture. His visual language is innately Scottish, describing it as “one part tongue-in-cheek, an ounce of sarcasm and a pint of Tennent’s lager.

Taking inspiration from the streets, parks and community spaces of the West of Scotland, McLeod’s work transforms the visual language of 90s and 00s popular culture. Sportswear and branded accessories, music references, print and found objects are reassembled through a playful and critical lens, conjuring scenes that capture the grit, humour and unguarded energy of youth. His approach combines accessibility with precision, creating works that speak both to those who recognise their source material and to new audiences encountering it for the first time.

@trackiemcleod // trackiemcleod.com

V2k

V2k is a self-taught Lithuanian/Scottish street artist based in Aberdeen, Scotland. He creates in a variety of mediums, from small to large-scale works on the streets. His practice is predominantly stencil based images and text/poetry in public spaces.

His work focuses on the socio-politicbrial aspects that have a direct or indirect impact on our way of thinking, communication, and perception of reality. Often, accents in his work are placed on exposing injustice and the disproportionate power imbalance of the capitalist system. V2k seeks to promote freedom for the human mind and soul, unrestricted by the socio-political systems of power.

Video by: @vakaruplentas