Last night we had the luxury of visiting Basquiat’s ‘Boom for Real’ exhibition at the Barbican and it was so inspiring and fantastic. It was a real nostalgia trip as we had studied his work and based our art A-Levels around it, with his style essentially encouraging us to pursue illustration.

Highlights included learning more about SAMO©, the Mudd Club and his friendship with Andy Warhol. Also, if you haven’t seen ‘Downtown 81(New York Beat)’ deffo check it out – there’s even a bizarre cheeky cameo with Debbie Harry!