Haribo Cosmo Jones

One dank, rainy London evening, I decided to commit suicide to escape from both the societal and self-inflicted creative and subject constraints I felt weighing heavily upon me and thereby creating a vacant, empty sterile shell of both human being and artist. I couldn’t fuck an artwork into Frida Kahlo.
But rather than stepping from this mortal coil, I awoke anew, pushed aside the rock that blocked my exit and declared that the day should be a celebration on which parents should stuff their children with high sugar content shit in celebration of the rising of Haribo Cosmo Jones (HCJ)! Huzzah!

Effectively, I had unchained my creative expression through the birth of an alter ego.

But also, I have been developing HCJ as a work in and of himself. A loose commentary on the idea of “Artist/ Artiste” and the definition and classification of taste: what’s considered socially palatable by a small and elite subsection of self-elected people.

Well, if those are the rules, I’ve decided to elect myself as enfant terrible, bastardo-extremo, fuck-head, daring, artistic madman/genius just for the fuck of it, and in doing so, exploring HCJ’s relation to this elitist construct of the art world.

Haribo Cosmo Jones is not an alien constru...

2007-2009 Central Saint Martins
2009-2012 Sir John Cass School of Art
2012- Baccard La Vie( A school . intermingling the
hedonistic ideals of
Bacchus and the . Existentialist principles . of Kierkegaard)

2013 Show Of* -Mile End Pavilion
2012 Multiple Grounds- Sir John Cass (School of Art)
2012 20/20 Exhibition- The Vyner Studio

2012 The Cass – No Frills. Sir John Cass School of Art, Degree Show

2012 Avant Premiere, Arbeit Gallery, London
Common Art, Bread and Roses
Cluster F***, Long White Cloud, London
2011 Exhibitionism, TruTrading Art Space, London
2010 Art in a Jar, TruTrading Art Space, London