London Graffiti and urban street artist comes to Old Town.
Famed artist `’Pure Evil’ AKA Charles Uzzell-Edwards is heading to Old Town to open up an exhibition at Art Gallery Oink on Victoria Hill. The exhibition, called “Nightmares’ opens on Friday 25th February at 7pm.
About the artist:
Pure Evil’s street art started in California, where he was living at the beginning of the 90's after he studied fashion and graphics in London, UK.
Living on the West Coast, whilst working as a designer for a clothing label called Anarchic Adjustment, he also produced screen print t-shirts and became involved in the electronic/dance music scene in San Francisco, eventually ending up recording for ambient record label FAX out of Frankfurt, Germany. After making electronic/dance music for about four years Charles decided to return to London and began painting his signature oddly fanged Pure Evil bunny rabbits everywhere.
His art is highly influenced by his dad, abstraction painter John Uzzell-Edwards, as well as Art Legends Picasso, Basquiat, Warhol and Keith Haring. The 90's California Street Art scene with artists like Twist and Reminisce, as well as meeting the people involved with Banksy's Project "Santa Ghetto" inspired him to find his own artistic voice and produce his first prints once he moved back to the UK.
The name Pure Evil originates out of the link of these two concepts and how society and the world is impacted by the diabolic and the good.
His success has allowed him to open up his own Gallery in London's Shoredich alongside solo shows all over the world, including Beijing, Berlin, São Paulo, Paris, Amsterdam and Stockholm and an artist residency in New York, he is in high international demand.