TERP (SWE)
Terp, streetartist from Umeå, northern Sweden, first started making stickers, stencils and pasteups in the year 2000. As streetartist lately terp have been mostly just about stickers and not as much pasteups and stencils as before. Stickers are a medium that very well suits the ideology of terp. Some kind of not well defined direct democracy.
Terp is about taking up a part of the urban milieu and compeet with ads and commercials about what messages our minds are bombarded with. To this stickers is an excelent medium, since it’s easy to slap, but Terp also likes the idea that it is as easily removed, that’s democratic.
The fact that Terp is from a small city in northern Sweden, means that internet and stickertrades have been important for Terp to get up places. And Terp loves to bring international sticker culture to his city where stickers were not very common until he got in the game.
So stickertrades and also collabs is something that Terp has been very engaged in. No one knows the exact number of collabs but it should be at least 50 different designs with different artists, and often they somehow is about Terp’s iconic molotow mixed together with other artists images. The subjects of Terps stickers are seldom political, but rather trying to be funny or just colorful designs.