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Jason Botkin’s Montreal Street Art

A piece of Jason Botkin's Montreal Street Art: A black hand painted on a wall with white concentric circles forming the details such as the palm and fingertips.

The largest city in the Canadian province of Québec, Montréal is a vibrant city with a unique mix of European and North American culture, its dual French-English mix adding a dynamic element to the city that cannot be found elsewhere.

Montréal is a city that’s rich in creativity too, with its many artists, writers and musicians contributing to the city’s reputation of being Canada’s art hub. The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts and Musée d'art contemporain are world-renowned for their extensive collections, while contemporary, under-the-radar, and local and international art can be found at galleries all over the city.

But it’s not just the art in the galleries that makes this city the hub that it is; Montréal street art is a huge part of its identity and culture. The city is covered in urban art, with international artists often making trips to Montréal just to put their stamp on the few empty spaces of wall that remain - celebrated annually with the MURAL festival, that turns the Saint-Laurent Boulevard into an open air museum full of all things street art.

Montréal is so full of street artists that it can sometimes be hard to stand out, but Jason Botkin manages to do just that. Since 2009, Botkin has been involved in the creation of more than 200 murals around the world, dressing the sides of non-descript buildings with his colourful and experimental style. Often creating art that is politically and sociologically-charged, with a great influence from medieval woodcuts, Botkin’s work is unusual, rich in colour and detail, and often quite disturbing.

So much more than paintings on a wall, Jason Botkin’s Montréal street art is intricate, thought-provoking and full of depth – and wouldn’t look out of place on the wall of a contemporary art gallery.

To see more of Jason Botkin’s work, visit his website.

A piece of Jason Botkin's Montreal Street Art: A green figure with long fingers crouching down and wearing a red mask painted onto a wall.

A piece of Jason Botkin's Montreal Street Art: A green face with yellow and red eyes and wild red hair painted onto a bridge support.

A piece of Jason Botkin's Montreal Street Art: A series of colourful, abstract shapes in different patterns painted onto a wall next to a palm tree.

A piece of Jason Botkin's Montreal Street Art: The head of a bird-like creature with blue feathers and beak, yellow eyes and a purple hand reaching out of one of its nostrils.

Sarah Atkinson
Sarah Atkinson Writer and expert

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