Romain Thiriau, alias JEAN ROOBLE, is a self-taught visual artist and graffiti artist who lives and works in Bordeaux (Fr.).

Illustrator since childhood, the influence of hip-hop culture will mark a definitive turning point in his practice and open him to a raw and fascinating universe.

He thus approaches painting through graffiti at the end of the 90s, first working on the letter in a way compulsive and develops an aestheticism inspired by the graffiti artists of his generation, composed of tags and 'wildstyle' lettering.

Since always inhabited by figurative drawing, he will find in collective frescoes the opportunity to include illustration in his practice. And after almost ten years of exploring wastelands, the realization of photo-realistic portraits will become his specialty.

In 2008, he professionalizes and creates at the same time the association Les Frères Coulures, starting point for an evolution of his practice mixing frescoes, exhibitions and curation of events, which still endures today.

Fascinated by chiaroscuro, he creates bridges between contemporary urban art and classical painting, working essentially with spray paint, and according to his own pictures.

Drawing inspiration from illustrators, graphic designers, painters in letters, like masters of painting, he forges his eye, develops his technique and lays the foundations of his approach as and when meetings and wall projects.

Recognizing himself in the works of «vernacular» photographers, he offers a snapshot tender but without concessions of his contemporaries in compositions where the portrait, detailed to the extreme, seeks dialogue with the public space and its users.

Cherishing an unvarnished aesthetic, centered on the complexion and its language, he imposes his faces of the everyday, and wishes to propose a conscious and social art. It honors the anonymous, close or unknown, and task to offer the spectator a spectacular and confusing experience.