Female street artists are still few and far between but we are seeing new artists entering the fray. One female artist call Fafi may be as important in the movement of bringing women to the street art scene as Emily Pankhurst was to allowing women to vote.

Her art is full of female characters which I think helped her success. Saucy, sexy and fiesty seems to be the attitude of many of her characters falling victim to a very sterotypical position. Fafi was hugely talented as the pictures show. All of her work appears to be very clean colourful freehand aerosol work.

Fafi was born and raised in Toulouse, France and has been painting since ‘94. She is a fantastic artist who has really help paved the way for other female artists to follow in this male dominated environment. Fafi brought a lot of attention on to herself and she caught the eyes of some huge global businesses including Sony, Adidas and Coca Cola.

Now-a-days Fafi is no longer as active as she once was. I’m sure her passion for art still burns but the responsibilty of motherhood has her heart. 2007 was the year Fafi’s art career changed slightly. Whilst she has not given up completely, you won’t see her hanging off a bridge trying to get up.

With a New Year upon us I’d like to start off with a new artist that we haven’t looked at on Concrete Canvas yet. He goes by the alias of Meggs and concentrates on his free hand characters. Aussie artist Meggs produces colourful aerosol beasts which all look very angry! His work is consistently clean and inspiring to any passer by whilst maintaining a sinister feel to all his pieces . The Australian can turn a boring Melbourne wall into a menacing monster portrait.

Meggs is truly a great artist and what a way to kick off 2009.

Here I am posting more about Mr Zero’s work. I find it incredible, the level of detail in his characters is amazing. Here’s an old collaboration which Mr Zero has just posted up on his flickr. The collaboration is with böki & the DZ crew. Those guys did a great job on the writing.

Taiwanese artist Who has put together another brilliant free hand piece. This time it’s Christmas inspired, a fantastic piece of art for this time of year.

It features Who’s faithful character suffering the same problem Santa must have every year, trying to fit down that chimney.

Mr Zero has some brilliant new freehand character work up. Check the detail on these two characters below: