Steff Plaetz Interview by Will Barras
OK Steff, lets cut to the chase, why won’t you let me use lime green & pink together in paintings?
(SP) Pink is amazing, but that combo hurts my eyes!
Fair enough...we are in the studio & I see you’ve been painitng a lot recently...what are you up to at the moment?
(SP) I’ve been asked to do quite a few canvases for different shows & individuals, & that’s really good to spend time doing that as a kind of job - & I’m trying to plan some good stuff for the future - planning a good group show for about a year from now...
I know there are a few celebs who own your paintings?
(SP) Yeah, proud to say that Ian Brown, Michael Stipe, & David Holmes all own one.
Wow! I sold one to Cab last year, but my mum buys most of them. So, we’ve been doing this about 5 or 6 years now, what do you think has been a high-ight so far, or what do you think has been the best thing to come out of doing all of this stuff?
(SP) I mean the first trip to Tokyo was amazing...
Which one?
(SP) The Parco exhibition in 2002, I guess just feeling that you might slowly be getting better at what you do, or at least nearer to the idea of where you want to take your work...it’s great & reassuring having made friends who do similar kinds of work.
I agree, it’s great to meet & work with artists from different countries. What sort of things are you looking at on a daily basis, for inspiration?
(SP) I do do get pretty inspired looking at other peoples work & by all the other stuff you see on sites like Rift-Tooper (rthq.com), & Being Hunted (being hunted.com) & I do take time to try & track down new work by people like Kaws, Futura, Banksy etc. really like checking that stuff...
Yeah, you’re our agent in the field...anything else to add?
SP) Just working on a small site of my own - should be done soon... it’s gonna be called highplanedrifting.com.
Taken from the Addict Book Volume 2
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