BRIM

Brim Fuentes, is the founding member of graffiti crew TATS CRU, and was born in the South Bronx,New York City. Brim was fortunate enough to start writing graffiti in one of the most important periods of graffiti history. He began bombing and hitting NYC subway trains, in the late 1970s, all the way through to the mid 1980s. When the subways underwent the buff, him and the rest of TATS CRU took to the streets and began bombing and creating street art all over the city.

Brims friendship to Afrika Bambaataa, and the almighty Universal Zulu Nation led to Brim being featured in one of the most important videos in hiphop culture, “Afrika Bambaataa - Renegades of Funk”, Brim was also featured in many other important documentaries and movies about Hip-Hop and graffiti culture from that time period including Dick Fontaine's 1987 documentary "Bombin" where he was introduced to fellow British graffiti artists Goldie and 3D (who later went on to form Massive Attack).

Brim became Goldie's artistic mentor, New York was the place that lifted his horizons, and America was where he would later become "Goldie". Brim was documented as the first graffiti artist to come to the UK and appeared on many TV stations and newspapers including the front page of the Daily Telegraph discussing this graffiti culture. Upon this media frenzy Brim was invited to lecture at Oxford University and was asked personally by Michael Winner to create the backdrops in his film Death Wish 3 which starred Charles Bronson.

With the future in mind, Brim continues to develop cutting edge art, murals, paintings and sculptures, with the same flavor and vigor as the young boy that first awed the world in the beginning of the hip hop movement. Brim currently lives in China.