Fancy yourself as an ear-to-the-street, fresh feet on everything cool? For some of you, the first thing that pops in your head is hugely successful Banksy and to the same credit the lovely French lady, Fafi. The Vine is here to school you on 40 street artists you should keep and eye and an ear out for. Here goes:

Arms-Rock - European artist known for his intricate portrait posters. Arms Rock Blog

Bast - Very publicity-shy collage-poster artist, perhaps the most prolific in the Big Apple.

Borf - Famous for his high-stakes takeover of DC a few years back, known for his stencil work. Myspace

Blek Le Rat - Old school poster artist, famous for human figures going back to the 80s. Blek Le Rat

Booker - Well known for his paint-roller work and skulls.

C215 - Well known for his intricate multi-layer stencils.

Christian Paine - Known for his intricate poster-paintings and SAMO-like aerosol work. Christian Paine 

Dan Witz - Known for his photo realistic paintings and hoodie-figure. danwitzstreetart.com

D*Face - known for his intricate paintings and cartoon-characters. D*face

Duece Seven - Energetic aerosol artist known for his intricate designs.

Elbowtoe -A highly versatile figurative painter, woodcutter, printer, and collagist.

Espo - Well known graffiti artist famous for his intricate fills and commercial gate work. Recently known for publishing books and doing art-gallery exhibits. firstandfifteenth.net

Fafi - known for her vivacious, often busty girls. Fafi

Fauxreel - Canadian artist best known for his large black-and-white poster work. Faux Reel

Faile - Known for their intricate silk-screens, large posters, and comic-book inspired images. Recently hit the big time with successful gallery shows in NYC and London. Faile

Gaia - An up-and-coming woodcut and pasteup artist doing increasingly intricate designs.

Graffiti Research Lab - Famous for their laser projections and political activism. GRL

Imminent Disaster - A woodcut artist doing amazingly intricate figures. Disasterstrikes Flickr

Invader - Famous for his tile-work and rubix-cube installations and maps. Space Invaders

Jace - Known for his intricate aerosol paintings.

Jesus Saves - Known for his religious tag and fine hand-style.

JR - Photographer and poster-maker well-known for his large installation and social activism.

Judith Supine - Known for his intricate and brightly coloured collage work. Judith Supine Flickr

Katsu - Master of the fire-extinguisher tag and his vivid skull.

KnowHope - Well known for his spindly figures in pasteups and sculptures.

Lister - Melbourne's own Lister is well known for his disturbing faces and large aerosol pieces. Lister 

London Police - Famous for their friendly circular-head figures. The London Police

Michael Defeo - Famous as "Flowerguy" for his large flowers, also known for his beautiful posters and Alphabet City book. Mdefeo

Momo - Conceptual collagist and sculptor known for his inventive projects. MOMO

Os Gemeos - Painters from Sao Paolo known for their unusual painting style. Os Gemeos

Neckface - Known for his deliberately messy freak drawing style, gallery shows, and sneakers.  Neck Face (wikipedia)

Obey - Shepard Fairey - Originated the Andre the Giant movement on the East Coast in the Early 1990s. Later moved to California and because one of the best known streetartists of all time. Also known for his commercial work and clothing line. OBEY GIANT

Rate - prolific graffiti artist known for his colorful rats.

Robots Will Kill - skilled muralists known for their character work.

REVS - Old school NYC graffiti artist, famous for his early-90s all-city poster campaign and subway biography paintings. Currently producing sculptural tags. Known for never selling his work.

Spazmat - prolific West Coast poster artist known for his skull-on-cellphone images, as well as other skeleton imagery. Also known as Skullphone. Skull Phone

Chris Stain - known for his portraits and wheat pastes. Chris Stain

Skewville - known for their block-style printing, metal signs, plastic facbrication, and wooden-shoes strung on power lines. Skewville

Space Invader - From France. Does excellent work with mosaics
Space Invaders

Stickman - infinitely prolific artist famous for his variations on a single stickfigure.

Swoon - very famous for her intricate stencils and poster works, as well as for her large scale gallery installations, boat building, and international activism.Swoon (Wikipedia)

Thundercut - Famous for their vinyl sticker work on Walk Signs in New York. Thundercut

UFO - famous for his blizzard of grunge-style UFOs with eyes.

WK - Known for his black-and-white posters with blurred moving figures. WK

Zero Cents - Known for his beautifully monstrous figures and $0.00 signs. Zero Cents

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