Thirsty Bstrd | Ascot Boy

Thirsty Bstrd — Ascot Boy

Thirsty Bstrd, the Paris-based street and pop artist working under the name Julien Surdeau, builds his practice on satire: spray paint, stencils and stickers turned toward the symbols of consumer culture, celebrity, and status, reworked until they look funny or strange enough to provoke a second look. Self-taught and formerly the creative director of his own Paris agency, he has spent the years since curating and exhibiting urban art across Paris, London, New York and Singapore, building a body of work that reads as pop art's wit filtered through a street artist's tools.

Ascot Boy takes Thirsty Bstrd's signature monochrome stencil silhouette — here a child dressed in full morning suit and top hat — and surrounds him with the teal-sprayed iconography of wealth and occasion: a crown, a diamond, a fistful of pound signs, and, in his hand, an "Ascot VIP Ticket." The effect is the artist's familiar trick in miniature, dressing a child in the trappings of adult status to needle at the absurdity of exclusivity and display — a subject with particular resonance for a gallery a few miles from the racecourse itself.

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

Mixed media stencil print
Framed
Edition size and dimensions to be confirmed

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