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The Urban Artist Wild Drawing ~ 'WD' (b.Bali, 199X –)
Contemporary Balinese art / Street art / Murals to order / Installations / Canvasses for sale
The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali, Indonesia
'Smeagol' (2015) (Detail).
Street mural 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.
Artwork © 2015 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
Banksy-like and anonymous, the Bali-born 'Wild Drawing' is an internationally acclaimed muralist and street-artist whose works grace walls from Asia and Europe to America. Wild Drawing, or 'WD' (weh-deh) – is a member of the Bali-based art collective The Pojoks.
WD is based in Athens, Greece – and is a master of the trompe-l'œil.
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.
Urban art by Wild Drawing (WD) ~ Untitled, 2020
Street art / Socio-political mural
Bali / Covid-19 pandemic / Unemployment / Economic recession / Poverty & hunger
'Untitled' (August 2020).
Preliminary outline of a mural in an abandoned building in Denpasar highlighting mounting poverty levels
caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD') / www.wdstreetart.com.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
'Untitled' (August 2020).
Street art drawing attention to rising poverty and hunger on Bali caused by unemployment and the collapse
of the tourist industry following Covid-19 travel restrictions.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD') / www.wdstreetart.com.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
'Untitled' (August 2020).
Wild Drawing – 'WD' – is renowned for his spectacular use of the trompe-l'œil in his urban art.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD') / www.wdstreetart.com.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
'Untitled' (August 2020).
Finished artwork by the street artist 'Wild Drawing' of a Balinese boy going hungry due to unemployment and the
collapse of the tourist industry following the catastrophic effect of the Coronavirus pandemic on Bali's economy.
Street Art © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD') / www.wdstreetart.com.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
'Message' (2020) by Wild Drawing (WD)
Street art / Mural in Bali, Indonesia
Coronavirus & Covid-19 pandemic / Couples / Long-distance relationships / Separation / Communication
'Message' (2020).
Street-art by the anonymous Balinese muralist 'Wild Drawing' (WD) on separation, budding long-distance relationships and the importance of communication during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD') / www.wdstreetart.com.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
Detail: 'Message' (2020) by Wild Drawing.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD') / www.wdstreetart.com.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
Detail: 'Message' (2020) by Wild Drawing.
How it all began: street-art of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus strain that
causes Covid-19. Quite a mouthful. Or an eyeful. Or a noseful. You really kind of wish the chef had cooked his bat for another ten minutes.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD') / www.wdstreetart.com.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
Detail: 'Message' (2020) by Wild Drawing.
A relationship buds despite separation, distance and lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD') / www.wdstreetart.com.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
Detail: 'Message' (2020) by Wild Drawing.
Now you know how Wild Drawing added that extra trompe-l'œil among the foreground plants...
Denpasar, South Bali, Indonesia on October 17, 2020.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD') / www.wdstreetart.com.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
'Tanah Air Mata' (Land of Tears) (2020) by Wild Drawing (WD)
Commissioned art-installation / Social-political mural in Bali, Indonesia
Yu Patmi / Farmer / Protester / Rice fields / Land exploitation / Cement factory
'Tanah Air Mata' (Land of Tears) (2020).
Social-political trompe-l'œil art installation at Kulidan Kitchen in Ketewel, Bali, protesting the destruction of Indonesian rice-fields and farmland by heavy industry.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
Detail: 'Tanah Air Mata' (Land of Tears) (2020).
'Tanah Air Mata' is a tribute to Yu Patmi, an Indonesian farmer and environmental activist who died from heart failure after ceremonially
setting her feet in concrete during a demonstration in Jakarta to protest the construction of a cement factory near her village in the Kendeng
mountains of Central Java, Indonesia.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
Detail: 'Tanah Air Mata' (Land of Tears) (2020).
A traditional Indonesian rice-farmer ponders environmental destruction and the cement factory built in the middle of his rice-fields in Central Java, Indonesia.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
'Tembang Ladang Gula' (2020) by Wild Drawing (WD) and SLINAT
Social-political street art / Mural in Bali, Indonesia
Coronavirus & Covid-19 / Tourism dollar / Traditional Balinese life / Rice-farming / Hindu religion & mythology / Face-mask
'Tembang Ladang Gula' (2020).
Street-art by the Balinese muralists 'Wild Drawing' and 'SLINAT' of a traditional Balinese woman wearing a gas-mask to guard against Covid-19
as she chooses between her disappearing tourist-dollars or growing rice to survive the incoming Indonesian economic recession caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Denpasar, South Bali, Indonesia on September 5, 2020.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing / SLINAT.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
Detail of 'Tembang Ladang Gula' (2020) street-art by the Balinese muralists 'Wild Drawing' and 'SLINAT'.
No money left to burn as Bali's tourist-dollars vanish during the Covid-19 economic recession.
Denpasar, South Bali, Indonesia on September 5, 2020.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing / SLINAT.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
Detail of 'Tembang Ladang Gula' (2020) by the Balinese street-artist 'Wild Drawing' (WD).
Street mural of the mythical Hindu bird-dragon Garuda offering a drop of life-giving water to a parched, damaged world as a Balinese-Hindu woman prays for his success.
Denpasar, South Bali, Indonesia on September 5, 2020.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
Detail of 'Tembang Ladang Gula' (2020) by the Balinese muralists 'Wild Drawing' and 'SLINAT'.
A Balinese woman ponders a return to the rice-fields rather than go hungry in an increasingly recession-hit Bali.
Denpasar, South Bali, Indonesia on September 5, 2020.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing / SLINAT.
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
Four months later...
February 3, 2021. Nothing lasts for long in the tropics. Additional artistic modifications by UrbanArse Inc.
Photograph © 2021 Ubud High.
'Artificial Happiness' (2014) by Wild Drawing (WD)
Street art / Mural in Bali, Indonesia
Traditional 1930s Balinese girl / Smartphone / Cellphone / Social media
'Artificial Happiness' (2014).
Mural by the street-artist 'WD' (Wild Drawing) of a traditional, topless 1930s Balinese girl using a cellphone near Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.
© 2014 Wild Drawing ('WD') of The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali.
Photograph © 2015 by Ubud High.
Detail: 'Artificial Happiness' (2014).
Social-political street-art by the muralist Wild Drawing of a traditionally topless 1930s Balinese girl using a smartphone on a wall near Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.
© 2014 Wild Drawing ('WD') of The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali.
Photograph © 2015 by Ubud High.
'Smeagol' (2015) by Wild Drawing (WD)
Commissioned street art / Mural in Bali, Indonesia
Gollum / The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings / Tolkein
'Smeagol' (2015).
'Smeagol' – infamous as Gollum, and Ring-Bearer of "My Precious" in J.R.R. Tolkein's 'The Hobbit'
and 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy – finds a new lease of life as a rogue street-artist in Bali, Indonesia.
Artwork © 2015 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
'Smeagol' (2015) (Detail).
'Smeagol', better-known as Gollum from 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings', readies his can of spray-paint outside an art studio in Mas, Bali, Indonesia.
Artwork © 2015 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
'Smeagol' (2015) (Detail).
Spray-paint can at the ready, Wild Drawing's signature 'WD' on his 2015 street-mural of Gollum from Tolkein's 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' in Bali, Indonesia.
Artwork © 2015 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
'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.
Artwork © 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.
Artwork © 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.
Artwork © 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2018 Wild Drawing / www.wdstreetart.com
'Born in a Cage' (2018).
Two years later. Vandalized street-art highlighting the oppression of personal freedom of thought in Indonesia by the Balinese muralist 'Wild Drawing' in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
Artwork © 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
'Born in a Cage' (2018).
Two years later. Vandalised mural highlighting the oppression of personal freedom of thought in Indonesia by the Balinese street-artist 'Wild Drawing' in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
Artwork © 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
'Born in a Cage' (2018).
Two years later. Defaced street-art highlighting the oppression of personal freedom of thought in Indonesia by the Balinese muralist 'Wild Drawing' in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
Artwork © 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD').
Photograph © 2020 Ubud High.
'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.
© 2014 Wild Drawing ('WD') of The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali.
Photograph © 2014 Wild Drawing / www.wdstreetart.com.
'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.
© 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD') of The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali.
Photograph © 2018 Wild Drawing.
'The Tears of Dewi Sri' (2018).
Two years later. Street-art by Wild Drawing of Dewi Sri, the Balinese-Hindu goddess of rice and fertility, crying in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
© 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD') of The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali.
Photograph by © 2020 Ubud High.
'The Tears of Dewi Sri' (2018) (Detail).
Street-art by Wild Drawing of Dewi Sri, the Balinese-Hindu goddess of rice and fertility, crying in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
© 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD') of The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali.
Photograph by © 2020 Ubud High.
'The Tears of Dewi Sri' (2018) (Detail).
Mural by Wild Drawing of Dewi Sri, the Balinese-Hindu goddess of rice and fertility, crying in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
© 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD') of The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali.
Photograph by © 2020 Ubud High.
'The Tears of Dewi Sri' (2018) (Detail).
Street-art by Wild Drawing of Dewi Sri, the Balinese-Hindu goddess of rice and fertility, crying in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia –
along with his signature 'WD'.
© 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD') of The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali.
Photograph by © 2020 Ubud High.
'The Tears of Dewi Sri' (2018) (Detail).
Street-art by Wild Drawing of a quote from Mahatma Gandhi to accompany his mural of a crying Dewi Sri, the Balinese-Hindu goddess of rice and fertility, in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
The full Gandhi quote reads: "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
© 2018 Wild Drawing ('WD') of The Pojoks Art Collective, Bali.
Photograph by © 2020 Ubud High.
'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.
© 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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