Ghost | I Got The Yayo

Ghost — I Got The Yayo

Ghost is a South Wales-based contemporary art collective formed by two collaborating artists whose practice reconstructs cultural icons through a graffiti lens, combining digital manipulation, tattoo-inspired illustration, and spray paint to produce works that sit in deliberate, unapologetic tension between fine art and vandalism. Their bespoke spray-painted frames — laden with resin-cast objects — have become as recognisable a part of each piece as the image inside.

I Got The Yayo takes Tony Montana’s infamous declaration from Brian De Palma’s Scarface and builds an entire visual world around it: a tattooed figure set against a Louis Vuitton multicolour monogram backdrop, the ornate gold frame overloaded with resin-cast revolvers, gold chains, Bitcoin coins, gold bars, and a grenade — a maximalist inventory of the mythology of drug money and luxury excess. The title itself is the punchline and the thesis simultaneously: I Got The Yayo is a work about the cult of the outlaw, the seduction of wealth, and the brand identities that have replaced one with the other.

Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.

Mixed-media on canvas, framed
83 x 114
Unique Edition