Mode 2 - A WeActivist!

Mode 2 was born in Mauritius in 1967, he
moved to the UK in 1976 just as punk had
started its own cultural revolution, while
reggae and dub where ever so present in
the neighbourhood in Lewisham, South East
London.

In the summer of ‘84, he started hanging
out at Covent Garden, the hub of the London Hip Hop scene. His
drawing ability led him to pick up the marker and spray-can, and
he was soon part of a crew called The Chrome Angelz. After that
summer - everything else became secondary; He would skip school
just to travel to Paris, and there, alongside the legendary Bando,
he became part of that small group of first generation European
graffiti-writers who set down the foundations.

Meeting Swifty at the end of ’96 was another turning point in his life.
It got him back into the London scene again, though from a different
perspective than in his previous years in Hip Hop, which led on to
other collaborations with the likes of Ross Allen and Jazztronik in
Japan.

He’s always been obsessed by the female figure, but he tries not
to have a fixation on any given body-type. Therefore trying to draw
more natural curves, while also pushing for an indeterminate racial
type which makes it easier for the female spectator to identify with.