Radical Reg (Soho) Painting

Greek-born, British-bred Aphrodite Papadatou is a self-taught artist whose unique talent to "˜puke up feelings and states of mind' finds expression through the media of painting and print; when she is working, she is Punk with Paints. Her work is brutal and humorous; always expressive; and often as impressionistic as it is illustrative; full of the rich contradictions that emanate from her emotional situations and critical attitude to societal structures and the establishment. Aphrodite was born in September 1982 in Athens to a family of artists, political activists and journalists; Her father is the painter and sculptor Dionysis Papadatos. She dropped out of art school and read politics and history at university in Manchester where she was also in a punk band. She worked in music, fashion and politics and started drawing again in the summer of 2013. Punk with Paints' art is as opulently sexual as it is political; her aesthetic as refined as it is raw; it is about identity, location and dislocation. It addresses modern fetishisms, sexual and social identity, and records impressions of friends and lovers. She lives and works in London, the city which has inspired her first series of paintings, "˜London Anarchy' and is featured in the latest Reg Traviss film, "˜Anti-Social' (2014). Her first show will take place in London in 2014
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