Live Black Light Graffiti Art at Bangkok Island Event for Galleries Nights 2025
Live Black Light Graffiti Art Overview
- Chief Event Organiser: The Embassy of France in Thailand, Galleries Nights Bangkok (@sawasdeefrance)
- Location: The Bangkok Island, Thailand (@bangkokisland)
- Theme: Pirate island!
- Dimensions: 3m x 3m transparent canvas
- Paint Duration: 5 hours during the event
- Materials: Hype UV-reactive fluorescent spray paint, assorted spray caps
- Objective: To create a live black light painting that merges with the boat’s background, interacts with its surroundings, and sets the vibe by being installed at the entrance to the boat party venue.
🧠👁️🗨️🐙 Are you ready to summon a glowing pirate monster from the depths? Let’s unleash a UV beast at your event. Send me a message now and let’s make it glow like buried treasure under black light. Want to find out more about this squidly oozing neon pirate’s nightmare? Then read on!
Live Black Light Painting at Bangkok Island for Galleries’ Nights Bangkok
This article is about a live black light painting performance: a giant cycloptic jellyfish brain sea monster oozing radioactive energy in fluorescent UV spray paint for Galleries’ Nights Bangkok at the Bangkok Island.
Galleries’ Nights Bangkok is something I look forward to every year. The same way kids look forward to unwrapping Christmas gifts, I get excited knowing the city will transform into one giant, interconnected art experience. Galleries, pop ups and artist studios link together through a fleet of tuk tuks that transport art lovers across Bangkok to explore art exhibitions, performances and creative happenings.
This year I had the pleasure of contributing my neon artistic powers to an event hosted by the Bangkok Island, a floating venue on the Chao Phraya River and one of the official venues recognised by the French Embassy and the wider Franco-Thai cultural programme. The boat and docking pier were transformed into Pirate Art Island, a fully immersive event filled with live performances, VR art installations and a huge riverside art market. It was the perfect setting for a glowing, trippy black light painting infused with my signature street art style.
A Black Light Graffiti Installation – Painting Live
For this pirate art themed event on a floating venue, I created a large scale UV-reactive mural on a custom-built 3m x 3m transparent canvas. Painting on plastic is not my usual choice, but the material gave me the freedom to design something that interacted with the surroundings. Unpainted sections acted as windows that revealed parts of the boat and river behind the artwork, giving the final piece a layered, multi-dimensional effect, the creature appeared to be floating mid-air, part hallucination, part hologram all sea monster.
I wanted to paint something relevant to the theme, and my final design was a giant one-eyed cyclops jellyfish sea monster, dripping in fluorescent colour and glowing eerily under black light that could have even the fiercest pirate shaking in their boots. Using Thai brand Hype UV reactive spray paint, the neon tones vibrated beautifully against the dark backdrop of the river and pirate décor.
Painting took place throughout the event, around five hours in total. The wind was predictably strong dockside, making the plastic canvas sway and flap, which worked perfectly for the effect I wanted. The pulsating movement of the plastic, combined with the shifting of the gangplank leading to the boat, enhanced the artwork by animating the black light creature, giving the effect of a living, breathing sea monster. When exposed to UV light the creature appeared almost alive, pulsating and dancing in sync with the DJs, live music and performances happening around the boat.
About the Night: Galleries’ Nights Bangkok at Pirate Art Island
The event was an official part of Galleries’ Nights Bangkok, a citywide celebration organised with support from the French Embassy and Sawasdee France. Art lovers travelled between venues using free electric tuk tuks, exploring exhibitions across the Silom, Sathorn and Riverside routes before arriving at our floating pirate themed playground powered by international and underground artists.
The Bangkok Island featured an eclectic mix of artists and performers:
- Various live art performances
- Shibari and aerial performance
- Experimental musicians and DJs
- Spoken word and poetry
- Interactive / Immersive VR installations
- A huge art market with over 30 creative vendors surrounding the pier.
The combination of eclectic artistic happenings, river views, pirate energy and live performances created a surreal buzzing atmosphere that perfectly suited a UV-reactive graffiti sea creature glowing and pulsating in the night.
Main Deck Stage:
- Sampajan (dnl) – Sound Healing
- Alistitle – Experimental Molam
- Imroot – The Mime’s Heart
- Aurora Sun Labeija – Excerpts from “Mae Baan” (2024)
- Sasiwimol Chonlabut – 20:30–21:00 – Emotional Blindness
- Pableroy – Pableroy’s Poetry
- Rory Breaker-Morant & Dominick Carew – Kinetic Poetic (Poetry with Beats)
- DJ Rory Breaker-Morant – DJ Session
Hall Deck Stage:
- Fangie – Aerial Performance
- Unnamed Minor (Shiba) – Dance of the Demons (Shibari)
- Milo / 3DTV – All Night – VR installation
Pier Stage:
- ViNNi KiNiKi – Live Painting
About the venue: The Bangkok Island
Bangkok Island is a one-of-a-kind floating venue on the Chao Phraya River. Part art space, part party boat, part creative lab, it features:
- Main deck with DJ booth and bar
- Lower deck theatre stage and party venue
- Open spaces for installations
- Rooftop areas for performances
- A pier area that often hosts markets and pop ups
The venue is known for its diverse programming, from music events and cultural nights to immersive art shows. It is an ideal canvas for large scale murals, live painting, UV installations and interactive art performances. Much love and thanks to you Bangkok Island for having me and for doing what you do!
About ViNNi KiNiKi: A UK-born street artist specialising in black light murals, live painting performances and custom graffiti installations.
Ready to Add Black Light Magic to Your Venue or Event?
Taking part in Galleries’ Nights Bangkok is always a joy, and painting live on Bangkok Island was an especially memorable experience. If you were at the event and are wondering who the artist behind the neon sea monster was, now you know.
If you’re a promoter, venue owner or event organiser looking for a live painting performance, black light mural artist, or custom graffiti installation, I’d love to collaborate. I also create permanent murals for businesses, clubs, bars, studios and private collectors.
View my full portfolio or send a message and let’s bring your next creative vision to life. Let’s make your space glow brighter than a pirate sea monster under UV lights.
