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Mike Ballard is a graffiti artist turned fine artist whose prints, paintings, videos and installations mix imagery and ideas from sources including art history, ancient history, comics, film and music. For his new exhibition 'The All of Everything' the gallery space of The University of the Arts London's Arts Gallery has become the studio space in which his immersive installation of monochrome paint and print that entirely covers the walls, floor and ceiling.

'It includes Caravaggio's angels wearing NASA space helmets, X-wing fighters from Star Wars and Afro-futurist musician Sun Ra, he's a big influence. A lot of the images connect aspects of the future with the past.

'I like the imagery of the baroque because it's visually over-the-top in a similar way to graffiti. And graffiti also relates to the very first cave paintings. Not only because cave paintings were art on walls but because some cave images were created by spitting pigment -also making them the first spraypaint artwork's.'

I love the way the space has been transformed. Mike's art is the perfect location for the "Hell" that the couple live in and try to escape on their mini-break.

I shall experiment in the space with lights to figure out how best to light it. I want it to look stark and bright, so the detail of the art is clearly visible, but I still want sharp, black shadows.