Character Study

The subject our documentary is on Nathan Bainbridge A.K.A Small Kid or Kid 30.
Nathans age is 30 and was born in a small town on the outskirts of Oxford. He has his own small designing company called Small Kid Designs which Specializes In: Printed design and illustration, Custom Designed Canvases and more.
(smallkid.co.uk)

Nathan attended at Portsmouth University on an Illustration course, after university he found out there not a lot of opportunities in this industry. After sometime he moved to Nottingham, getting involved in the rave scene, making his own in drum and bass nights and meeting new people arranging nights. Through this he got designing flyers for the drum and bass night ‘Detonate’ and this is when he realised away of making money out of his designs.

Nathan believes his creative came from his mum who did lots of paintings and his grandfather who was an architect.
Nathans involvement within the graffiti scene came from a Nottingham graffiti artist whose graffiti name is Creeks. In doing this he found his style, Character paintings

Nathan now does graffiti work for the Nottingham council, commercial works workshop and more. This gives him funding to do his own work and also commissions, which still keeps him interested in this art form.

Recent main influences are flying fortress, Jeremy Fish and Sam Flores, but he also admits that he looks at other artist and not just graffiti artist.