Rooki is an Urban Decollage artist from Manchester UK, Who's work is reminiscent of the Decollage artists Mimmo Rotella and Jacques Villeglé.

Using appropriated street posters, spray paint, Ink, stickers, digital art, stencils, magazines, acrylic Resin, and gold leaf he creates biographical decayed urban portraits of iconic stars.

Immersing himself in the icons history, Rooki sources relatable media to create the discoverable Bio within the portrait.

His process starts by building up multiple layers of graffiti, paint, pen work and torn poster fragments, working this process back and forth, ripping, sticking and peeling posters on and off the canvas.

The main subject, a black & White digitally and analogue manipulated image is then added, torn, spray paint added and more fragments of posters are added that are associated with the icon, finishing with his trademark "Dripping Crown" around the subjects eye to make recognition of their Iconic Status.

The decayed structure of the artwork suggests that everything gets older and nothing lasts forever, including the people in the portraits who we come to admire, aspire to be, who are strong and who are our role models. The works represent that is that everything gets older and decays apart from the memories and those feeling of nostalgia we all have that take us back to that specific place in time.

Within the decayed layers of ripped posters and graffiti are hidden details and meanings associated with the icon featured in the artwork, some you may know and see straight away while others may be more obscure and you may only become aware of overtime. Making each art piece a talking point for many years to come.

Rooki hopes that when the artwork is viewed, you will see an image within the artwork that invokes those memories of nostalgia and those memories and information are shared and passed onto another viewer keeping that icon and that feeling alive forever.