PURE EVIL Curriculum Vitae

Solo Shows:

2009 Pure Evil Gallery London

2009 Dark Carnival Choque Cultural Sao Paulo
2009 SoloShow Kspace Amsterdam

2008 SoloShow Urban Uprising Sydney  

2008 Live East Die Young Ink’d Brighton

2008 Run! The Old World Is Behind You ATM Berlin
2008 SoloShow Electrick Sheep Newcastle
2007 SoloShow FakeSpace Beijing
2007 SoloShow Pure Evil Gallery London
2007 SoloShow Truman Brewery London
2006 55 gallery NYC

Group Shows

2009 1980 Mobil Box Fondation Cartier Paris
2009 A Shot in the Dark Czech Republic
2009 Secret Bllisters London

2009 The Beautiful and the Canned Brighton

2009 Cruel Britannia Philadelphia
2009 Urban Myth Culver City CA
2009 Urban in Ibiza
2008 Mutate Britain London
2008 International Arts Belgium
2008 Cans Festival 1+2 London
2008 Stella Dore Sebatian Guinness Gallery Dublin
2008 Not a Penny off the Pay Bristol
2008 Alternativity London
2007 Open Studio London
2007 International Arts Belgium
2006 Santas Ghetto London
2006 International Arts Belgium
2005 Difusor Barcelona
2005 Paris Stencil Project

Lectures:
2009 Beautiful Losers ICA London
2008 Collecting Street Art Tate Modern London
2007 Street Art ICA London

Press:
2009 PRESS PAGE http://www.pureevilclothing.com/press.html

2008 CNN http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/05/02/foster.lok.uk.banksky.exhibit.cnn?iref=videosearch

2008 BBC NEWSNIGHT http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/7375798.stm

2008 TIME OUT http://www.timeout.com/london/art/features/4151/The_future_of_London_street_art.html

Who is Pure Evil?

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.

In 1990 PURE EVIL left the Poll Tax Riots of London behind and went to live in California where he spent 10 years ingesting weapons grade psychedelics , thinking about stuff , making electronic music and printing t-shirts . Inspired by skateboard culture and the west coast character graffiti of Twist he returned to London and picked up a spraycan and started painting weird fanged vampire bunnies everywhere.

Pure Evil Gallery: Ethos and Principles

• We are opposed to seeing artists as a commodity
• Principles before Profit
• Wear your Politics proudly
• We are an Alternative Ideological Force
• The Gallery should be a Mecca for Independent artists
• We need to have the feeling of exhilaration from meeting an artist and seeing their work..

Pure Evil Gallery is an artist run space situated in the heart of Hoxton, split across an ever evolving and developing Victorian ground floor and Dickensian basement, which has been alive and very much kicking since it’s entry into the East London contemporary art scene in October 2007.

A pioneering force in the contemporary street art world, it consistently demonstrates it’s worth by exhibiting a myriad of young International and British artists as well as staging international shows; most recently in Berlin, Amsterdam, Sydney, Sao Paulo and most notably in Beijing.

PE Gallery is consistently pushing boundaries by showcasing an eclectic mix of art as well as hosting a multitude of experimental film nights, creative workshops and live music sessions.

We pay the artists 75% of sales because we can. We also have our own music production studio in the basement where we produce our own live music which goes straight onto the website for free download as soon as it is produced.

find us at:

PURE EVIL UK ,

108 Leonard st,

London EC2A 4XS.

United Kingdom

020 7729 2866

07805 420 771.

or email us