Radium — artwork #16308 by SHOK-1 · Le Locle, Switzerland

graffiti hand main flower fleur horloger watchmaker green science squelette skeleton vert

Radium — Street art by SHOK-1 in Le Locle

Photo by Pierre Jeanmonod

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SHOK-1

SHOK-1 is a British artist based in London who came up through graffiti in the mid-1980s. He pioneered aerosol X-ray art: hands, skulls, animals and plants rendered as radiographs, sprayed freehand without stencils or masking tape. His translucent greens and blues on dark backgrounds borrow the language of medical imaging to talk about science, the body and society. His walls run from London's Eas…

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Pierre Jeanmonod

Added 30/08/2026

A hand stripped to the bone, green and translucent like an X-ray, holds a brush loaded with radium paint above the arc of a watch dial sprayed on the black wall. On the right-hand panel an X-rayed flower opens its petals into the radioactivity symbol: SHOK-1's tribute to the women of the watchmaking industry who were poisoned in the 1920s by the glowing dials they painted.

The artwork Radium is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of Le Locle in Switzerland, more precisely here: Rue des Envers 63, 2400 Le Locle, Switzerland.

This graffiti is also tagged as: hand, main, flower, fleur, horloger, watchmaker, green, science, squelette, skeleton, vert.

Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: SHOK-1

The photo was published on 30-08-2026 by Pierre Jeanmonod.

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