BIOGRAPHY // BIOGRAPHIE
Zabou is a French street artist based in London. She travels and paints realistic portraits, making the world a more colourful place, one wall at a time.
Working mostly with spray paint, Zabou creates large-scale black and white portraits with colourful backgrounds. Her artworks are both striking and thought-provoking, and focus on the expression and emotions of her subjects. She likes to push visual and spatial boundaries, sometimes creating playful pieces.
Zabou explores various themes, finding inspiration in the history and the surroundings of where she paints. Her artistic world revolves around humans, icons, art, music, movies, nature, empowerment, love and many more.
Zabou takes part in festivals and art projects all around the world, from Europe and Asia to South America. To her, street art and graffiti enable communities to connect together and people to have a direct impact on their environment. Public art is a way to change cities while creating social dialogue, inspiration, revolt or wonder.
Beyond her travels, Zabou’s accomplishments also include speaking at events, featuring in specialist books and magazines, as well as being asked to exhibit her work multiple times at Saatchi Gallery in London.
Zabou est une street artiste française établie à Londres. A travers ses voyages, elle peint de grands portraits réalistes et colore le monde, petit à petit, un mur à la fois.
Travaillant principalement avec la peinture en bombe, Zabou crée des portraits en noir et blanc entourés de vives couleurs. Ses oeuvres, centrées autour de l’expression et des émotions de ses personnages, sont saisissantes et donnent matière à réfléchir. Elle aime repousser les limites visuelles et spatiales, créant parfois de véritables trompe-l’œil.
Les thèmes que Zabou explorent sont variés, s’inspirant de l’histoire et du lieu où elle peint. Son univers artistique parle entre autre de l’humain, d’icônes, d’art et de musique, de films, de nature, de force, d’amour et de bien d’autres.
Zabou participe à des festivals et des projets artistiques dans le monde entier, de l’Europe à l’Asie en passant par l’Amérique du Sud. Pour elle, le street art et le graffiti permettent de créer un lien entre les communautés ainsi que d’avoir un impact sur notre environnement. L’art dans l’espace public peut changer nos villes tout en générant un dialogue social, de l’inspiration, de la révolte ou bien de l’émerveillement.
En plus de ses voyages, Zabou a également participé à des conférences, à des publications dans des livres et magazines spécialisés et à de multiples expositions à la Saatchi Gallery à Londres.
Photo credit: Sylvie Moreau – France, 2020
AROUND THE WORLD // AUTOUR DU MONDE
PROJECTS // PROJETS
2021
- COMING SOON!
2020
- OCTOBER 2020: ‘London Mural’ Festival — London, UK
- SEPTEMBER 2020: ‘Ceci N’est Pas Un Tag’ Festival — Saint-Quentin, France
- SEPTEMBER 2020: Mural Painting — Kirkcudbright, Scotland
- AUGUST 2020: ‘Gargar’ Festival — Penelles, Spain
- AUGUST 2020: Mural Painting — Saumur, France
- JULY 2020: ‘Stornara’ Festival — Stornara, Italy
- JAN/MARCH 2020: Mural painting — Paris, France
2019
- SEPTEMBER 2019: ‘Festigraffiti’ Festival — Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- SEPTEMBER 2019: ‘Eternelles Crapules’ Festival — Moutiers, France
- SEPTEMBER 2019: ‘Cheltenham Paint Festival’ — Cheltenham, UK
- JULY 2019: Mural painting — Würzburg, Germany
- JULY 2019: Mural painting — Cerignola, Italy
- JUNE 2019: ‘Vukovart’ Festival — Vukovar, Croatia
- MAY 2019: Mural painting — Saumur, France
- MAY 2019: ‘Graffitibuey’ Festival — Garcibuey, Spain
- MAY 2019: ‘Street Life’ Festival — Limassol, Cyprus
- FEBRUARY 2019: Mural painting — Saint-Etienne, France
- JANUARY 2019: Mural painting — Saumur, France
2018
- OCTOBER 2018: Mural painting — Beeston, UK
- SEPTEMBER 2018: ‘Hands Off The Wall’ Festival — Vienna, Austria
- SEPTEMBER 2018: ‘Sea Walls Bali’ Festival — Bali, Indonesia
- AUGUST 2018: ‘Stramurales’ Festival — Stornata, Italy
- JULY 2018: ‘Upfest’ Festival — Bristol, UK
- JULY 2018: Mural painting — Saint Die Des Vosges, France
- JUNE 2018: ‘Beeston’ Festival — Beeston, UK
- MAY 2018: Mural painting for ‘Artists4Israel’ — Shtula, Israel
- APRIL 2018: ‘Street Life’ Festival — Limassol, Cyprus
- FEBRUARY 2018: Mural painting — Kupang and Yogjakarta, Indonesia
2017
- OCTOBER 2017: ‘Capfest’ Festival — Armenia, Colombia
- JULY 2017: ‘Energy Fest’ Festival — S. Polo Di Piave, Italy
- JULY 2017: Mural painting for ‘Women&Kids’ — Paris, France
- JUNE 2017: ‘Viva Con Agua’ Festival — Hamburg, Germany
- JUNE 2017: Mural painting for ‘Artists4Israel’ — Hadera, Israel
- MAY 2017: Mural painting for ‘M.U.R Mulhouse‘ — Mulhouse, France
- MAY 2017: ‘Street Life’ Festival — Limassol, Cyprus
- APRIL 2017: Mural painting for the Tour de France — Nantua, France
2016
- NOVEMBER 2016: Mural painting for ‘Semaine du Handicap’ — Altkirch, France
- AUGUST 2016: Mural painting for ‘M.U.R Okerkampf’ — Paris, France
- JULY 2016: ‘Upfest’ Festival — Bristol, UK
- JULY 2016: ‘Whitecross Street Party’ Festival — London, UK
- JUNE 2016: ‘Loures Arte Publica’ Festival — Lisbon, Portugal
- JUNE 2016: ‘City of Colours’ Festival — Birmingham, UK
- MAY 2016: ‘Street Life’ Festival — Limassol, Cyprus
2015
- SEPTEMBER 2015: ‘L’Expo de Ouf’ Festival — Nîmes, France
- JULY 2015: ‘Upfest’ Festival — Bristol, UK
- JULY 2015: ‘Whitecross Street Party’ Festival — London, UK
- MAY 2015: ‘Street Life’ Festival — Limassol, Cyprus
- MARCH 2015: ‘Femme Fierce’ Festival — London, UK
2014
- DECEMBER 2014: Mural painting for ‘Smart Travel’ — Braganca, Portugal
- OCTOBER 2014: Mural painting for ‘Kallered Regeneration’ — Kallered, Sweden
- SEPTEMBER 2014: TEDx Talk ‘Everything you know is wrong’ — Limassol, Cyprus
- SEPTEMBER 2014: ‘City of Colours’ Festival — Birmingham, UK
- JULY 2014: Mural painting for ‘M.U.R Marseille’ — Marseille, France
- MARCH 2014: ‘Femme Fierce’ Festival — Leake Street Tunnel, London, UK