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Pure Evil

Country: United Kingdom
Date of birth: 1968
Tags: grafitti, irony, London, mixed media, modern art, Mutate Britain, parody, printing, printmaking, street art, urban art, United Kingdom, spraypaint, Santa's Ghetto, Affordable Art Fair, Art Amsterdam, Art.Fair, contemporary art, giclee, icon, icons, inspired by, painting, screenprint, visual artist

To understand a bit about Pure Evil it is illuminating to know that he is a descendant of Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor who wrote the controversial work Utopia and who was later beheaded by King Henry VIII. With this busy background (Sir Thomas was later canonised) it is only natural that Pure Evil should explore the darker side of the wreckage of Utopian dreams and the myth of the Apocalypse, a belief in the life-changing event that brings history with all its conflicts to an end.

Pure Evils ancestry is alleged to include eight saints: Vladimir the Great, Saint Anna of Russia, the Holy Martyrs Boris and Gleb, Saint Stephen of Hungary, Saint Margaret of Scotland and Saint Mathilde together with Saint Thomas More, Humbert III of Savoy and several European royal families.He was also a descendant of the Old English Chieftain Ailric, Kings Thane to Edward the Confessor, who held Cawthorne and much of South Yorkshire before the Conquest.

Exhibitions (summary)

2012 : St. Art Gallery, Raw Art Fair, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2012 : Corey Helford Gallery, Pure Evil Goes Pop!, solo exhibition, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

2011 : St. Art Gallery, Art.Fair, Cologne, Germany

2011 : La Cantine De Faubourg, Pure Evil Nightmares, solo exhibition, Paris, France

2011 : The Scarlett Gallery, Pure Evil Nightmares, solo exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden

2011 : The Garage, Pure Evil, solo exhibition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2011 : Abel and Baker Gallery, Pure Evil, solo exhibition, Cologne, Germany

2011 : XOYO, Pure Evil : The Last Good Time Pure Evil, solo exhibition, London, U.K.

2011 : Pure Evil Gallery, Pure Evil Solo, solo exhibition, London, U.K.

2011 : Lebenson Gallery, Paris, France

2011 : Street art from the Victoria and Albert museum touring exhibition

2010 : Pure Evil Gallery, Strange Girls, solo exhibition, London, U.K.

2010 : Lo-Fi Gallery, Paste Modernism 2, Sydney, Australia

2010 : Phillips De Pury, Bhopal Medical Appeal, charity auction, London, U.K.

2010 : Stolen Space Gallery, Wild Fantasies, London, U.K.

2009 : Dark Carnival Choque Cultural Sao Paulo, Brazil

2009 : Fondation Cartier, 1980 Mobil Box, Paris, France

2009 : Brooklynite Gallery, Go Get your Shinebox, New York, U.S.A.

2008 : Urban Uprising, Pure Evil, solo exhibition, Sydney, Australia

2008 : ATM Berlin, Run! The Old World Is Behind You, solo exhibition, Berlin, Germany

2008 : Electrick Sheep, Pure Evil, solo exhibition, Newcastle, U.K.

2008 : Santa’s Ghetto, London, U.K.

2008 : Mutate Britain, London, U.K.

2008 : Not a Penny of the Pay, Bristol, London

2008 : Cans Festival 1 + 2, London, U.K.

2007 : FakeSpace, Pure Evil, solo exhibition, Beijing, China

2006 : 55 gallery, Pure Evil, solo exhibition, New York, U.S.A.

2006 : Santa’s Ghetto, London. U.K.

 

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