Pure Evil

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 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 o...

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Solo Shows:

2018 Sleepwalking Towards The Apocalypse VS Gallery Melbourne Australia
2018 Pure Evil Korsbarsgarden Gotland Sweden
2018 Steel Sharpens Steel Cindy Lisica Gallery Texas USA
2017 Hidden In Plain Sight Vertical Gallery Chicago USA
2017 Murder and Love C.A.V.E. Gallery Venice California USA
2017 Dream Baby Dream Above Second Gallery Hong Kong
2017 Pure Evil Reed Projects Stavanger Norway
2017 Pure Evil That Art Gallery Bristol
2017 Death Valley San Francisco USA
2016 Pure Evil Solo Show The Quin NYC USA
2016 Pure Evil Echoes Wunderkammern Gallery Rome Italy
2016 Pure Evil Galle-ry Galle Sri Lanka
2015 The Temple of Broken Hearts LondoNewcastle Project Space UK
2015 Handfinished The Department Store UK
2015 Basically Disneyland C.A.V.E. Gallery Venice Beach USA
2015 Pure Evil Goes Pop ! Elizabeth Weinstock Los Angeles USA
2014 The Nightmare Series Galleri Fold Reykjavik Iceland
2014 The Nightmare Series The Saatchi Gallery
2013 Pure Evil Double Exposure Culture Gallery Cape Town South Africa
2013 Pure Evil Nightmare The Hoxton London
2012 Pure Evil Deconstructed Nightmares Pure Evil Gallery London
2012 Pure Evil goes POP! Corey Helford Gallery Culver City USA
2011 Pure Evil Nightmares La Cantine...