Aileen Middel (a.k.a. Mick La Rock)

Mick La Rock (Aileen Middel, Groningen, 1970) is one of Europe’s first and most well known female graffiti artists. Conquering The Netherlands in the 80’s, she extended her playground internationally in the 90’s and 2000’s. Established graffiti artists, a.o. Quik, Blade, Lady Pink, Iz The Wiz, Sar, Dondi, Futura, Lee Quiñones, invited her to come to New York after they met at the exhibition ‘Coming from The Subway’ at the Groninger Museum in 1992. During the 90’s - 00’s she worked and lived in both Amsterdam and New York, where she collaborated on big mural productions and became part of the New York graffiti scene.