Visitors weave a path through the sculpture, creating their own unique journey in light and music. It consists of a field of 48 luminous, sound-emitting columns that respond to movement. In the exhibition, alternative flags of the British Commonwealth were recoloured in the anarchist red and black and hung from the ceiling of the Royal Festival Hall main floor.ĭel Naja and Davidge collaborated with United Visual Artists on the large scale installation 'Volume' at London's V&A museum in 2006.
The installation was called "Favoured Nations". He also created an exhibition of flags at "Massive Attack's Meltdown Festival" on London's South Bank in 2008. He is also regarded as the pioneer of the stencil graffiti movement and bringing hip hop and graffiti culture from the USA to Bristol in the early 1980s.ĭel Naja has co-designed all of Massive Attack's lighting shows with UVA the shows have been overtly political, dealing with current local and international issues.ĭel Naja took part in a group show in 2007 called Warpaint at the Lazarides Gallery in London, featuring his art from the Unkle album "War Stories". Del Naja is credited as being the first graffiti artist in Bristol. The graffiti artist Banksy cites his work as an influence.
His work has been featured on all of Massive Attack's record sleeves. In 2015 he also collaborated with Jean-Michel Jarre on the Electronica 1: The Time Machine album, resulting in the track "Watching You".ĭel Naja was a graffiti artist before becoming a vocalist. The songs are available for free download. In February 2015, Del Naja and Thom Yorke released the soundtrack for documentary "The UK Gold". This new music material is also available for free download. The songs will be used by the site developers to make soundtracks for the games. In December 2014, Del Naja donated ten unreleased music tracks to the Game Jam site "Ludum Dare", for a game event taking place in December. He counted with the collaboration of artists such as Guy Garvey, and the Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band. In December 2012, Del Naja released the first single of his new project called "The Battle Box", which fuses music, art and discourse across one-off live events, exhibitions and exclusive vinyl releases. In addition to his work with Massive Attack, he provided vocals to "Invasion" on Unkle's album Never, Never, Land, and "Twilight" on War Stories. In 2009 he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.ĭel Naja is one of the founding members of Bristol trip hop collective Massive Attack. He emerged as a graffiti artist and member of the Bristol collective The Wild Bunch, and later as a founding member of the band Massive Attack, with whom he is still active. Robert Del Naja (/dɛl ˈnaɪə/ born 21 January 1965), also known as 3D, is a British artist, musician, singer and songwriter.
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