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.
Solo Shows:
2011 Pure Evil Nightmares La Cantine De Faubourg Paris
2011 Pure Evil Nightmares The Scarlett Gallery Stockholm
2011 Pure Evil The Garage Amsterdam
2011 Pure Evil Abel and Baker Gallery Cologne
2011 The Last Good Time Pure Evil XOYO
2011 Pure Evil Solo Pure Evil Gallery
2010 Pure Evil Paris
2010 Strange Girls Pure Evil London
2009 Pure Evil Gallery London
2009 Dark Carnival Choque Cultural Sao Paulo
2009 SoloShow 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
2011 Group Show Lebenson Gallery Paris
2011 Somerset House PrintClubLondon
2011 Street art from the Victoria and Albert museum touring exhibition
2011 Blisters Blackout PrintClubLondon
2010 3 exhibition Lebenson Gallery Paris
2010 London Calling Moscow
2010 Paste Modernism 2 Sydney
2010 Tiger Translate Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
2010 Anti Design Festival
2010 Wild Fantasies Stolen Space Gallery London
2010 Bhopal Medical Appeal Phillips De Pury London
2009 1980 Mobil Box Fondation Cartier Paris
2009 A Shot in the Dark Czech Republic
2009 Further Complications with Jarvis Cocker London
2009 Go Get your Shinebox Brooklynite New York
2009 Secret Bllisters London
2008 Santas Ghetto London
2009 The Beautiful and the Canned Brighton
2009 Cruel Britannia Philadelphia
2008 Film Friends Forever London
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
Exhibitions at Pure Evil Gallery
2011 Birth of the Namahage Grady Gordon
2011 Cement Eclipses Isaac Cordal
2011 MadABC MadC
2011 Y’OH / Kids of Grime exhibition
2011 The friends of Tony Romanoff Lucas Price
2011 Shunga Pop FLIP
2011 Marina Fages
2010 Roa Solo
2010 Antonio Breves : art from rio
2010 3 exhibition at Londonewcastle Project Space
2010 From the ground up PANIK
2010 New Paintings ROBBO
2010 NYCHOS at Pure Evil Gallery
2010 Buenos Aires Calling
2010 Culture Shock Choque Cultural
2010 Specter Solo Show
2010 Poster Boy
2010 Remed Solo
2010 Busk Bleach Zadok
2010 The Fantastic 4 Remed Grems Zbiok 3TTman
2010 Fundraiser for Bhopal
2010 Vilchez Solo
2009 Words up ! Dscreet
2009 April fools South Kensington
2009 A Forca da Rua for ABC Trust
2009 Dran Bom-K Jaw Heng
2009 Dran booklaunch
2009 Metamorphosis a solo-show by Gustavo Ortiz
2009 Shannon Crees , Beatrice Brown E.C. Woodard
2009 Prophet or Profit Remi Rough , Part2 , Juice , System
2009 Graffiti Argentina
2008 Mymo Solo
2008 Ged Wells
2008 Happy Monsters Assault Gola Ovni UeiA Tom14 Lolta
2008 Deadbeat Donny Solo
2008 Ozmo Solo
2008 Peripheral Media Projects
2008 Psychedelic Brasil Zezao Highraff Milo Tchais
2008 1980 Crew Paris Barcelona
2008 PANIK Solo
2008 Soozy Lipsey
2008 Twinkle Troughton and Craig Cooper
2008 Tinsel Edwards Solo
2007 Sten & Lex
2007 Joel Clifford
2007 John Uzzell Edwards
2007 Zosen and Kafre
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
Pure Evil Gallery: Ethos and Principles
• We are opposed to seeing artists as a commodity
• No conceptual artists or poseurs
• No curators allowed in the building they will be shot on sight
• 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.