Joax.GG // Arend Maatkamp

With graffiti the story starts in 1996 when, after visiting an architectural exposition on the south side of Rotterdam city, my dad went to take some photo’s at a nearby graffiti wall, the beauty of it all hit me head-on.

Being a somewhat quiet boy I found, shortly after entering puberty, a good way of expressing myself in sketching, after 2 years I decided to hit the streets with a friend of mine and we did some daylight bombing. It was fun but it wasn’t more than just kids having fun, throughout the following years we went out doing damage without a cause. In 2000 I ended up hanging with some people that where deeper into the scene, they showed me how it was really done and things started progressing a little further and on the 2nd of January 2002 I did my first piece. Around that same time I started exploring the world of web design and I started photographing graffiti. In the year that followed I found myself a name that represented me and where I come from.. Joax.

Skills were progressing at a steady pace and I started to wonder.. “What makes me unique as an artist?”, “Why am I doing all this” and “Where did this culture come from”.

So I started digging into the past and with the new-gained knowledge sort of started all over again.

Soon after that my own style was born and it started to get somewhat more serious – still toy though.

Then out of nowhere I ended up in a hospital and I could not walk for more than a year, in this time I seriously started to think about my life and I recognized the hand of God guiding me through this all, shortly after that I decided to follow Jesus and stop doing illegal graffiti and within a week after that decision I “accidently” ended up on the Gospel Graffiti website.

In 2007 I dropped out of art school due to lack of time for both school and work.

My recent activities are documented on both the photo- and blogpage.

Joax Design
KvK 24423043
Tel. +31 6 24913177
Email. arendmaatkamp (a) gmail.com

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