Slawn in front of the mural
(Picture: Ed Peacock / Evening Standard)“I wanted to put a dick on this thing,” Slawn whispers into the phone. He has just come down from the lift he spent two days on, spray painting a mural for UGG. A huge wall by Shoreditch Boxpark now stands half green, half pink, and covered with the 21 year old artist’s signature, squishy cartoon faces.
If you walk by, you will see it is sans-penis. “I would have, but you know what happened today? I’m peeing in the corner of the street. Some kids were walking by and I ran, kind of peed on myself, and then had to think - why would I put a dick on the wall if there’s kids walking by?” he says. It was the most deliberation he put into the process. Slawn is a man lead by instinct. “They asked me for a sketch. I couldn’t provide one,” he says of the wall colour matched to the new UGG rain boots. “I just trusted my gut and it came out amazing!”
