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The Bali-born 'Wild Drawing' – Banksy-like and anonymous – is a world-acclaimed street artist whose urban artwork graces walls from Asia to Europe. Wild Drawing, or 'WD' – is a member of The Pojoks, a Bali-based street-art collective.
Born on the tiny island of Nusa Penida off Bali's southeast coast, and with degrees in Fine Art and Applied Arts, Wild Drawing is based in Athens, Greece.
WD's also a master of the 3D trompe-l'œil...
The Street Artist Wild Drawing ~ 'WD' (b.Bali, 199X –)
Contemporary Balinese art / Street art / Murals to order / Digital artworks / Installations / Canvasses for sale
The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali, Indonesia
'Smeagol' (2015) (Detail).
Street art of 'Smeagol', aka Gollum from 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings'
as seen by the Balinese-born street-artist Wild Drawing ('WD') outside an art studio in Mas, Bali, Indonesia.
Urban art © 2015 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
To commission or buy Wild Drawing's murals or canvasses
For enquiries, commissions, payment or delivery – please contact the artist or representative directly. You'll find their contact details at the bottom of this portfolio.
'The Tears of Dewi Sri' (2018) by Wild Drawing (WD)
Street art / Mural in Bali, Indonesia
Dewi Sri / Goddess of rice and fertility / Balinese-Hindu religion
'The Tears of Dewi Sri' (2018).
Street-art by Wild Drawing of Dewi Sri, the Balinese-Hindu goddess of rice and fertility, crying in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
Street Art © 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD') of The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali.
Photograph © 2018 Wild Drawing.
'Sold' (2014) by Wild Drawing
Street art / Social-political mural in Bali, Indonesia
Bali Tigress and her tiger cub / Hunted to extinction / Dutch colonial period
'Sold' (2014). A Bali Tigress and her cub.
Street Art © 2014 Wild Drawing.
Photograph © 2014 Wild Drawing / www.wdstreetart.com.
'Exploited Land' (2014) by Wild Drawing
Social-political street art / Mural in Bali, Indonesia
Tourism / Land sales / Exploitation
'Exploited Land' (2014).
Social-political mural by the Balinese street-artist Wild Drawing protesting the exploitation of buying and selling land and rice-fields in Bali, Indonesia.
Street Art © 2014 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2018 Wild Drawing / www.wdstreetart.com.
'Captured by Big Brother' (2018) by Wild Drawing (WD)
Social-political street art / Mural in Bali, Indonesia
Facebook / Social media / Invasion of privacy / Traditional Balinese life
'Captured by Big Brother' (2018).
A Facebook robot uses a smartphone to photograph and invade the privacy of a shy and scared Balinese woman in traditional costume on the island of Nusa Penida, Bali Province, Indonesia.
Urban Art © 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2018 Wild Drawing / www.wdstreetart.com.
'Born in a Cage' (2018) by Wild Drawing (WD)
Social-political street art / Mural in Bali, Indonesia
Oppression of personal freedom of thought and self-expression
'Born in a Cage' (2018).
Street art highlighting the oppression of personal freedom of thought in Indonesia by the Balinese muralist 'Wild Drawing' in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
Urban Art © 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2018 Wild Drawing / www.wdstreetart.com
'NESTalgic' (2014) by Wild Drawing (WD)
Street art / Mural in Bali, Indonesia
Newborn baby / Nest
'NESTalgic'.
Street art by the Balinese muralist 'Wild Drawing' in Bali, Indonesia.
Street Art © 2014 Wild Drawing ('WD') of The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali.
Photograph © 2014 Wild Drawing / www.wdstreetart.com.
'Owlself' (2017) by Wild Drawing (WD)
Street art / Mural in Bali, Indonesia
Owlish things
'Owlself'.
Street art by the Balinese muralist 'Wild Drawing' in Bali, Indonesia.
Urban Art © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD') of The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali.
Photograph © 2020 Wild Drawing.
☬ Locations of Wild Drawing's Street Art in Bali, Indonesia
Locations of murals by the Balinese street-artist Wild Drawing on Bali and Nusa Penida, Indonesia.
If you're on Bali, open up the local Google interactive map. If you're anywhere else in the world, you're definitely going to need the international version... The lad gets around.
Detailed locations of murals by the street-artist Wild Drawing in and around Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
✎ Wild Drawing in the Press/Media
The Jakarta Post, August 2020:
'Globe-trotting muralist captures public imagination, one wall at a time'
◐ Worldwide Web
w ~ www.wdstreetart.com
ig ~ wd_wilddrawing
fb ~ WD street art
✆ Enquiries
For enquiries, please contact WD at wdstreetart1 [at] gmail [dot] com ~ English, Indonesian, Balinese and Greek spoken.
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Ubud's ARMA – the Agung Rai Museum of Art – is home to over 200 modern and traditional works of art that paint Bali's story in ways you've only dreamt of.
File under 'Rare Left Field'.
'Arjuna Wiwaha' at the ARMA Art Gallery, Ubud, by I Wayan Turun of Tebesaya, Peliatan, Bali.
After killing Natakwaca, Lord Arjuna the archer sits side-by-side with Dewi Supraba as they are escorted to heaven by angels.
Courtesy of the ARMA Foundation.
Photograph by Ubud High.
'Sabung Ayam' (Cock-fighting) by the Balinese painter I Ketut Tagen – another young pupil snatched from the cradle
by Dutch artist Arie Smit to form his stable of 'Young Artists' in Penestanan, Ubud.
Courtesy of the ARMA Foundation.
Photograph by Ubud High.
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A beggar from Muntigunung on the streets of Ubud in Bali, Indonesia.
Portrait by © Ubud High.
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∞ The Tale of Ganesha the Globetrotter ~ Bali's Elephant-Headed Hindu God
‘First stop on Shree Ganesha's round-Asia tour was a spell in Buddhist Tibet with its strong tantric leanings – a convenient spot to re-invent himself as Vinãyaka, and then as the dancing red Nritta Ganapati – before a full-blown alter-ego revamp as the scarlet, twelve-armed Maharakta Ganapati. Now, Maharakta Ganapati was unusually fond of skullcaps filled with human flesh and blood – and this we might charitably put down to a bad trip.
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‘To cut an all-night story short, the mask was donned by a dancer who fell into a deep trance. But instead of staying in the temple, he began to run. And run. He became violent and uncontrollable. He ran for four kilometers down the road – the crowd scrambled after him. He ended up in a cemetery just past my house, and in the dead of night began to do frenzied battle with unseen foes...’
∞ 'Nyepi' ~ Bali's Hindu New Year, and the Day of Silence ~ Melasti, Ngerupuk, Ogoh-Ogoh & Manis Nyepi
‘If previous New Years' Days have seen you waking up with a crippling hangover trying to remember what you did the night before, maybe it's time you headed to Bali in March. Nyepi – the Balinese Day of Silence, and the start of the Hindu Saka New Year – is a day, a night and a day you'll never forget....’
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‘She starts sweeping and I notice that she's limping. There's a spreading bruise and an angry graze running past her knee and down her calf. She wants to carry on cleaning – I sit her down and ask her what happened.
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‘Rule number one on a monsoon day? Don't get wet.
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‘Nowhere is free from the tax of life. We all have to pay for our slice of Bali paradise – and this often comes in the shape of our biting, stinging, crawling, flying insect-cousins.
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‘Ten meters away and the young man finally looks up – an inane, animal-like grin taped across his face as his girlfriend grips his porcelain butt and grimaces towards the empty blue sky. They disengage like street dogs, utter an invective in Russian, and stare...’
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‘My concentration's shot to pieces. The spaghetti keeps falling off my fork. She's on her third large beer now. She starts to say 'facking' even more, and is speaking so loudly that people passing on the street have begun to look her way, and she's spitting bits of ciabatta bread and tomato and fish into her friend's dinner...’
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