Adam Neate

Adam Neate (born 1977) is a British painter, He specialised in painting urban art on recycled cardboard, and has left thousands of works in the street for anyone to collect. Neate watched VHS videos about graffiti, as well as groups such as the Beastie Boys and hip-hop music. then moved to London and took a job as a graphic designer at Glue London, a digital advertising agency.

Technique He also took up painting, which he had long wanted to do.

Street Work He gave away works to friends, but built up an excess and left them wrapped in bin liners outside charity shops as a donation. When he discovered that they were not being sold, but thrown out with the rubbish, he started to leave them in the streets instead, with works leaning on lampposts, doors and wheelie bins, as an open exhibition,

He had kept away from galleries, but was contacted by Elms Lesters, who wanted to show his work.

One of the 1,000 prints by Adam Neate left in the streets of London on 14 November 2008. On 14 November 2008, in an event The London Show, he and helpers left 1,000 prints, worth a total of £1 million, around London streets for anyone to pick up and keep. Work was left in doorways and against shop windows. He said, "It has always been a dream of mine to do a show around the whole of London, to take over the whole city in one go. I want everybody to be able to see it, but once the pieces are out there I don't mind what happens to them."

The works were screen prints on cardboard of a man, with stamping, each being slightly different, and protected in a cellophane wrapper; They were rubber-stamped with his signature. 'The Flock Series', Elms Lesters, London (2010) - five key works were displayed 'Dimensional Paintings' (2011) 'Dimensional Editions and Paintings' (2012)