Welcome to Part 2 of the ‘20 Artists to Watch in 2009!’ series. If you missed it, check out part 1 here. 2008 was a great year for street art, but why look at the past when there is such great list of raw talent looking to blossom in the future. With the help of the forum members, we have comprised a list of 20 artists which you should all be watching in 2009! We’ve included information and pictures of 5 more artists below:

Bonus Saves - Partly responsible for the success of the ‘It’s Yours Take It’ iniative, BonusSaves is a great artist in his own right and clearly has a big heart if he gives it away for ‘It’s Yours Take It’. The piece below looks like it has been painted straight onto the wall but that’s not Bonus’ style. Bonus appears to me to love street art but he’s not a vandal - most of his work is left on the street for others to take. This is why Bonus is definitely someone to watch in 2009!

deuniti- Deuniti are an Italian artist collective. They seem to love their pixel art and the Nintendo family slots right into that category. Their art which doesn’t revolve around Mario is unobtrusive and pleasant - real street art which is a result of mainly stencil work and posters.

Starheadboy - Simple monochrome stickers with a hand drawn style are Starheadboys speciality. The simplicity is SHB’s present for the busy urban environments. His character designs are always interesting to gaze at.

Prefab77 - Based in Newcastle, UK, but previously lived in New York, the Prefab boys are inspired by not just the UK culture but their roots in America means they work BIG! Mainy paste up and poster artists, Prefab have to be watched in 2009 just to see how they can top 2008.

Nychos (a.k.a Rabbit Eye Movement) - Nychos is one of my favourite artists of 2008. His work is always big and freehand and bold and detailed… the list goes on. Nychos has attracted a lot of attention from Concrete Canvas over the last year and if you check out his flickr you’ll see why. This guy has huge skill with a paint can and the level of detail in each of his pieces is astounding.

Check back tomorrow for Part 3!

Nychos and his Rabbit Eye Movement project is the current artist at the Carhartt Gallery. His comic book style has been a huge hit and the pictures below will show you why.

Thanks to Nychos for the heads up.

Some big free hand graff artists are collabing in Austria. The piece (pictured below) is work produced by Nychos, Die Made and some other unidentified artists (ID’s appreciated).

Thanks to MadC for the picture and the heads up.

Rabbit Eye Movement, a previous FOTW winner, has some new fresh work up. The fantastic free hand work is still as clean as ever and is complimented with awesome character designs.

Work above by Nychos, Bronz, Aron, Tomsta and Miz.

His work looks like it has come straight out of a comic book but Rabbit Eye Movement has brilliantly transferred the comic book style characters to the big walls of many towns and cities. This Austrian artist’s work has incredible detail which I feel only a free hand artist could do. We often cover stencil and sticker artists on here but the free hand artist can produce spectacular results which is proven in REM’s work.

This image above was done in Vienna (REM’s home town) and is titled 9.11 Greatest Lie Ever Sold. As you can imagine, its very political and I think it brings together the events after the 9/11 tragedies very well. Obviously any work done criticising the US Government and in particular 9/11 is very controversial.

The image above was taken in a gallery, you can probably see the canvases on the wall. This is what REM said about it:

whole mess of the thing what gives us inspirations! the new and young generation wouldnt paint that way they paint when they wouldn’t have been brainfucked allready as young kids by the tv!
Media is an inportant thing in our world.
we are all mindcontroled! we just dont get it!

A great piece of work with a great message behind it.