"It's so good I don't even know what it is."

This morning, WebsterGotts visited the Sausage Ink House Collective studios. Here they met the two founding members, Chumpsy and Udder Boy (their real names are a secret), Sheffield's original 'Underground Redesigners'. These two have been hailed as graffitti heroes of the North, even representing 'The North' in the National Draw-Off finals.

We wanted to know a little bit about them, to scratch the surface of their childish drawings, and find out how they came to be taken seriously.



U B: "We draw our inspiration from politics, the World around us, urban redevelopment, that sort of thing."

Ch: "We watch a lot of shit cartoons on Nickelodeon too."

U B: "I think most people find our art more accessible because there's not much to think about."

Ch: "Yeah, there's not really much depth in what we produce. You can just look at it and you get it."



U B: "Sausage Ink House have recently had some interest from the Sheffield Council to decorate the entire pavement for Sheffield's Moor redevelopment."

Ch: "It's great. You know, a few years ago loads of us had warrants out for our arrest, for criminal damage. There were posters up with examples of our tags and rewards for any information on us! Now the council are actually asking us to redesign public property."

U B: "Now the council understands that what we do is Art in it's purest form, we can draw dicks and tits wherever we like!"

Ch: "The other day I was redesigning a shop front, when the owner ran out and told me I was shit, that I should fuck off or she'd call the police. I replied 'Do you know who I am? I've just tripled the value of your property!'. Then I gave her the rods and did one."



U B: "Everyone thinks that it's only us who've redesigned the whole city, but there's actually shitloads of other redesigners out there. Fortunately their work looks exactly like ours, and we totally respect that."

Ch: "We just want to thank all those in other cities who are changing the face of urban spaces to look all cluttered and cartoony, just like we are. Soon everywhere will look the same! And that would be mad wouldn't it? There'd be cows and pirates and sexy cartoon girls and cute worms with big eyes and freaky creatures all over all the bars and shops and vans in all the cities!"

Looking around at the Sausage Ink House studios, WebsterGotts can see many great examples of this awesome subculture. Far from being the rambling scrawlings of hopeless morons, these are the products of backward-thinking underground geniuses. It's great to see that these guys are the Art Ambassadors of The North. They've gone from scratching their names on buses, to producing hi-gloss coffee table books for the culture crowd that hasn't cut its ties with the streets it came from.



All these works are available to buy, or you can commission Chumpsy and Udder Boy to display their mad skillz on your shop front or in the corridor of your local night club.