Ellis Gallagher

After the Jaffe lecture (see below) I went to see our favorite bartender/musician Del at Alexandra's for a glass of wine and their great beetroot/goats cheese/pistacio salad. While eating the stranges thing happened: Ellis,the waiter, ran out into the street with a big piece of chalk, came back talking about the shadows...? As it turns out, this is Ellis thing: making chalk outlines of shadows. And it looks amazing!

Ellis Gallagher has been tagging and into grafitti for more that 15 years, got mocked last April by this guy with a huge knife waiting in the shadows outsides his house, and started freaking out about shadows. So he started outlining them! Pure street art therapy. And hopefully a new career for Ellis. He has already been in contact with huge companies (such as Nike) wanting to use his works in their advertising and he is working on both books and an exhibition. Ellis told me all about this over a very strange Indonesian clover cigarette (no nicotin, Ellis is trying to quit) with cinnemon filters and we hope to work together in the future. See you at Arlene's Grocery on Monday, Ellis! xxx