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{{BLP sources|date=September 2012}}{{Underlinked|date=August 2012}}'''Charles Uzzell-Edwards'''<ref name="LLB Artman">{{cite news|last=Wilson|first=Kevin|title=ArtMan: Start your art collection - Prints|url=http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/lifestyle/london-art/artman-start-your-art-collection-prints/746.article|accessdate=2012-09-16|newspaper=LondonLovesBusiness.com|date=13 october 2011}}</ref> (born in [[South Wales]] in 1968{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} ) is a [[graffiti]] artist known by the moniker "Pure Evil"<ref name="LLB Artman" /> and is a stablemate of [[Banksy]].{{citation needed|date=September 2012}}
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{{BLP sources|date=September 2012}}'''Charles Uzzell-Edwards'''<ref name="LLB Artman">{{cite news|last=Wilson|first=Kevin|title=ArtMan: Start your art collection – Prints|url=http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/lifestyle/london-art/artman-start-your-art-collection-prints/746.article|accessdate=16 September 2012|newspaper=LondonLovesBusiness.com|date=13 October 2011}}</ref> (born in [[South Wales]]{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} in 1968)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/galleries/pure-evil-gallery/artist-pure-evil/|title=Artworks by Pure Evil at Pure Evil Gallery on artnet|work=[[Artnet]]|accessdate=8 September 2015}}</ref> is a [[graffiti]] artist known by the moniker "'''Pure Evil'''".<ref name="LLB Artman" /> He is the son of Welsh painter [[John Uzzell Edwards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/10232820/The-world-of-Pure-Evil-graffiti-artist.html|title=The world of Pure Evil, graffiti artist|date=9 August 2013|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|accessdate=8 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-uzzell-edwards-artist-whose-fascination-with-the-welsh-industrial-landscape-gave-way-to-the-pure-painting-approach-9236771.html|title=John Uzzell Edwards: Artist whose fascination with the Welsh industrial landscape gave way to the "pure painting" approach|work=[[The Independent]]|date=April 3, 2015|accessdate=8 September 2015}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Uzzell-Edwards has exhibited [[globally]]{{where|date=September 2012}}. In the early 90's he was one of the designers for [[Anarchic Adjustment]] with Alan Brown and [[Nick Philip]] and released electronic ambient music on [[Pete Namlook]]'s [[FAX +49-69/450464|FAX label]], recording "Octopus" 1, 2 & 3 and "Dada" (under the pseudonym [[Drum Machine Circle]]) solo, producing "A New Consciousness" and "Create" 1 & 2 with Pete Namlook, recording "Supergroup" with [[Thomas Bullock]], and "Audio" with [[Tetsu Inoue]] and [[Daimon Beail]]. The Pure Evil Gallery is run by Uzzell-Edwards and located in Shoreditch, London.<ref name="LLB Artman" /> He is the son of John Uzzell Edwards a Welsh painter.{{citation needed|date=September 2012}}
Uzzell-Edwards has exhibited globally. In the early 1990s he was one of the designers for Anarchic Adjustment with Alan Brown and Nick Philip and released electronic ambient music on [[Pete Namlook]]'s [[FAX +49-69/450464|FAX label]], recording "Octopus" 1, 2 & 3 and "Dada" (under the pseudonym [[Drum Machine Circle]]) solo, producing "A New Consciousness" and "Create" 1 & 2 with Pete Namlook, recording "Supergroup" with [[Thomas Bullock (musician)|Thomas Bullock]], and "Audio" with [[Tetsu Inoue]] and [[Daimon Beail]]. The Pure Evil Gallery is run by Uzzell-Edwards and located in [[Shoreditch, London]].<ref name="LLB Artman" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/11202223/12-things-no-one-tells-you-before-you-become-a-street-artist.html|title=12 things no one tells you before you become a street artist|date=6 November 2014|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|accessdate=8 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/980c27c6-1897-11e4-a51a-00144feabdc0.html|title=Urban, edgy, lucrative|work=[[Financial Times]]|accessdate=8 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/exhibitions/graffiti-artist-pure-evil-i-ve-had-10-year-olds-telling-me-banksy-is-a-sell-out-9531129.html|title=Graffiti artist Pure Evil: 'I’ve had 10-year-olds telling me Banksy|author=Nick Curtis|date=12 June 2014|work=[[London Evening Standard]]|accessdate=8 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/the-great-online-art-illusion-a-cautionary-tale-9585690.html|title=The great online art illusion: A cautionary tale|work=[[The Independent]]|accessdate=8 September 2015}}</ref>


In 2011 Uzzell-Edwards created a special edition of prints to raise money for the victim sof the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami.<ref>{{cite news|last=Reyburn|first=Scott|title=Jenson Button’s Ferrari Boxer May Sell for $180,000: Art Buzz|url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-23/jenson-button-s-ferrari-berlinetta-boxer-may-sell-for-180-000-art-buzz.html|accessdate=2012-09-16|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|date=23 March 2011}}</ref>
In 2011, Uzzell-Edwards created a special edition of prints to raise money for the victims of the [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Reyburn|first=Scott|title=Jenson Button's Ferrari Boxer May Sell for $180,000: Art Buzz|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-23/jenson-button-s-ferrari-berlinetta-boxer-may-sell-for-180-000-art-buzz.html|accessdate=16 September 2012|newspaper=[[Bloomberg.com]]|date=23 March 2011}}</ref>


In the spring of 2016, Uzzell-Edwards served as [[artist-in-residence]] of the Quin Arts program at [[the Quin Hotel]] in [[New York City]]. His solo exhibit, curated by DK Johnston, channeled [[Andy Warhol]], creating a body of work rooted in repetition art and showcasing his trademark eye drips in a series of hand-finished prints on paper and stencils on canvas.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Eller|first1=Matthew|title=Pure Evil Interview & Opening at The Quin Hotel NYC|url=http://www.streetartnews.net/2016/04/pure-evil-interview-opening-at-the-quin-hotel-nyc.html|website=Street Art News|accessdate=21 April 2016}}</ref>
==Solo Shows==


==Solo shows==
2012 Pure Evil Deconstructed Nightmares Pure Evil Gallery London


*'''2023'''
2012 Pure Evil goes POP! Corey Helford Gallery Culver City USA
** Welcome, Machine Overlords! (Fourth Wall Folkestone Gallery)
*'''2022'''
**Nightmares Pure Evil (Oink Gallery, [[Swindon]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=PURE EVIL, 25th of February 2022 |url=https://oinkgallery.co.uk/blogs/exhibitions/pure-evil-25th-of-february-2022 |access-date=2022-03-05 |website=Oink Gallery |language=en}}</ref>
**Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys (Wunderkammern Gallery, Milan)
*'''2016'''
**Pure Evil as curated by DK Johnston for Quin Arts ([[The Quin Hotel]], New York)<ref>{{cite web|last1=Zimmer|first1=Lori|title=Pure Evil Descends on the Quin|url=http://art-nerd.com/newyork/pure-evil-descends-on-the-quin/|website=Art Nerd|accessdate=19 April 2016}}</ref>
*'''2012'''
**Pure Evil Deconstructed Nightmares (Pure Evil Gallery, London)
**Pure Evil goes POP! (Corey Helford Gallery, [[Culver City]], USA)
*'''2011'''
**Pure Evil Nightmares (La Cantine De Faubourg, Paris)
**Pure Evil Nightmares (The Scarlett Gallery, [[Stockholm]]
**Pure Evil (The Garage, [[Amsterdam]])
**Pure Evil ([[Cologne]])
**The Last Good Time (Pure Evil XOYO){{clarify|date=February 2013}}
**Pure Evil Solo (Pure Evil Gallery)
*'''2010'''
**Pure Evil (Paris)
**Strange Girls (Pure Evil, London)
*'''2009'''
**Pure Evil Gallery (London)
**Dark Carnival (Choque Cultural, [[São Paulo]])
**SoloShow (Amsterdam)
*'''2008'''
**SoloShow (Urban Uprising, Sydney)
**Live East Die Young (Ink'd, [[Brighton]])
**Run! The Old World Is Behind You (ATM, [[Berlin]])
**SoloShow (Electrick Sheep, [[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]])
*'''2007'''
**SoloShow (FakeSpace, Beijing)
**SoloShow (Pure Evil Gallery, London)
**SoloShow (Truman's Brewery, London)


==Group shows==
2011 Pure Evil Nightmares La Cantine De Faubourg Paris
*'''2014'''

**Face To Face (with John Uzzell Edwards) ([[Tenby Museum & Art Gallery]], Tenby)
2011 Pure Evil Nightmares The Scarlett Gallery Stockholm
*'''2012'''

**Urban ([[Ibiza]])
2011 Pure Evil The Garage Amsterdam
**Unnatural Natural History ([[Royal West of England Academy]], Bristol)

**Bastard Children of Pop (London)
2011 Pure Evil Cologne
**Group Show (Lebenson Gallery, Paris)

**Pick Me Up ([[Somerset House]], London)
2011 The Last Good Time Pure Evil XOYO
**Art Contemporain Urbain ([[Angers]], France)

**Quick Moves (Mannheimer Kunstverein, Germany)
2011 Pure Evil Solo Pure Evil Gallery
**Stra-Da (Arthouse 59, [[Cyprus]])

**International Urban Art ([[Stade De France]], Paris)
2010 Pure Evil Paris
**Pure Evil + (Crossie, Vienna)

*'''2011'''
2010 Strange Girls Pure Evil London
**Group Show (Lebenson Gallery, Paris)

2009 Pure Evil Gallery London
**Group Show (Print Club, London)
**Street art (from the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] touring exhibition)

**Blisters Blackout (Print Club, London)
2009 Dark Carnival Choque Cultural São Paulo
*'''2010'''

**3 exhibition (Lebenson Galleri, Paris)
2009 SoloShow Amsterdam
**London Calling (Moscow)

2008 SoloShow Urban Uprising Sydney
**Paste Modernism 2 (Sydney)
**Tiger Translate ([[Ulaanbaatar]], Mongolia)

**Anti Design Festival {{where?|date=February 2013}}
2008 Live East Die Young Ink’d Brighton
**Wild Fantasies (Stolen Space Gallery, London)

**Bhopal Medical Appeal (Phillips De Pury, London)
2008 Run! The Old World Is Behind You ATM Berlin
*'''2009'''

**1980 Mobil Box Foundation (Cartier, Paris)
2008 SoloShow Electrick Sheep Newcastle
**A Shot in the Dark ([[Czech Republic]])

**Further Complications with [[Jarvis Cocker]] (London)
2007 SoloShow FakeSpace Beijing
**Go Get your Shinebox (Brooklynite, New York)

**Secret Blisters (London)
2007 SoloShow Pure Evil Gallery London
*'''2008'''

**Santa's Ghetto (London)
2007 SoloShow Truman Brewery London
**The Beautiful and the Canned (Brighton)

**Cruel Britannia ([[Philadelphia]])
2006 55 gallery NYC
**Film Friends Forever (London)

**Urban Myth (Culver City, CA)
Group Shows
**Urban (Ibiza)

**Mutate Britain (London)
2012 Urban in Ibiza
**International Arts ([[Belgium]])

**Cans Festival 1+2 (London)
2012 Unnatural Natural History Royal West of England Academy Bristol
**Stella Dore Sebastian (Guinness Gallery, [[Dublin]])

**Not a Penny off the Pay (Bristol)
2012 Bastard Children of Pop London
**Alternativity (London)

*'''2007'''
2012 Group Show Lebenson Gallery Paris
**Open Studio (London)

**International Arts (Belgium)
2012 Pick Me Up Somerset House London
*'''2006'''

**Santa's Ghetto (London)
2012 Art Contemporain Urbain Angers France
**International Arts (Belgium)

*'''2005'''
2012 Quick Moves Mannheimer Kunstverein Germany
**Difusor ([[Barcelona]])

**Paris Stencil Project
2012 Stra-Da Arthouse 59 Cyprus

2012 International Urban Art Stade De France Paris

2012 Pure Evil + Crossie Vienna

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==
==Lectures==
*2009 Beautiful Losers ICA London
*2009 Beautiful Losers ICA London

*2008 Collecting Street Art Tate Modern London
*2008 Collecting Street Art Tate Modern London

*2007 Street Art ICA London
*2007 Street Art ICA London


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==External links==
==External links==
*http://www.picturesonwalls.com Pure Evil and Banksy art
*[http://www.pureevilclothing.com Official website for Pure Evil Gallery]
*http://www.sofuzzycrew.com Pure Evil site
*[https://www.flickr.com/people/pureevilbunny Pure Evil graffiti]

*http://www.flickr.com/people/pureevilbunny Pure Evil graffiti
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Latest revision as of 23:15, 15 December 2023

Charles Uzzell-Edwards[1] (born in South Wales[citation needed] in 1968)[2] is a graffiti artist known by the moniker "Pure Evil".[1] He is the son of Welsh painter John Uzzell Edwards.[3][4]

Career[edit]

Uzzell-Edwards has exhibited globally. In the early 1990s he was one of the designers for Anarchic Adjustment with Alan Brown and Nick Philip and released electronic ambient music on Pete Namlook's FAX label, recording "Octopus" 1, 2 & 3 and "Dada" (under the pseudonym Drum Machine Circle) solo, producing "A New Consciousness" and "Create" 1 & 2 with Pete Namlook, recording "Supergroup" with Thomas Bullock, and "Audio" with Tetsu Inoue and Daimon Beail. The Pure Evil Gallery is run by Uzzell-Edwards and located in Shoreditch, London.[1][5][6][7][8]

In 2011, Uzzell-Edwards created a special edition of prints to raise money for the victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[9]

In the spring of 2016, Uzzell-Edwards served as artist-in-residence of the Quin Arts program at the Quin Hotel in New York City. His solo exhibit, curated by DK Johnston, channeled Andy Warhol, creating a body of work rooted in repetition art and showcasing his trademark eye drips in a series of hand-finished prints on paper and stencils on canvas.[10]

Solo shows[edit]

  • 2023
    • Welcome, Machine Overlords! (Fourth Wall Folkestone Gallery)
  • 2022
    • Nightmares Pure Evil (Oink Gallery, Swindon)[11]
    • Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys (Wunderkammern Gallery, Milan)
  • 2016
  • 2012
    • Pure Evil Deconstructed Nightmares (Pure Evil Gallery, London)
    • Pure Evil goes POP! (Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, USA)
  • 2011
    • Pure Evil Nightmares (La Cantine De Faubourg, Paris)
    • Pure Evil Nightmares (The Scarlett Gallery, Stockholm
    • Pure Evil (The Garage, Amsterdam)
    • Pure Evil (Cologne)
    • The Last Good Time (Pure Evil XOYO)[clarification needed]
    • Pure Evil Solo (Pure Evil Gallery)
  • 2010
    • Pure Evil (Paris)
    • Strange Girls (Pure Evil, London)
  • 2009
    • Pure Evil Gallery (London)
    • Dark Carnival (Choque Cultural, São Paulo)
    • SoloShow (Amsterdam)
  • 2008
    • SoloShow (Urban Uprising, Sydney)
    • Live East Die Young (Ink'd, Brighton)
    • Run! The Old World Is Behind You (ATM, Berlin)
    • SoloShow (Electrick Sheep, Newcastle)
  • 2007
    • SoloShow (FakeSpace, Beijing)
    • SoloShow (Pure Evil Gallery, London)
    • SoloShow (Truman's Brewery, London)

Group shows[edit]

  • 2014
  • 2012
    • Urban (Ibiza)
    • Unnatural Natural History (Royal West of England Academy, Bristol)
    • Bastard Children of Pop (London)
    • Group Show (Lebenson Gallery, Paris)
    • Pick Me Up (Somerset House, London)
    • Art Contemporain Urbain (Angers, France)
    • Quick Moves (Mannheimer Kunstverein, Germany)
    • Stra-Da (Arthouse 59, Cyprus)
    • International Urban Art (Stade De France, Paris)
    • Pure Evil + (Crossie, Vienna)
  • 2011
    • Group Show (Lebenson Gallery, Paris)
    • Group Show (Print Club, London)
    • Street art (from the Victoria and Albert Museum touring exhibition)
    • Blisters Blackout (Print Club, London)
  • 2010
    • 3 exhibition (Lebenson Galleri, Paris)
    • London Calling (Moscow)
    • Paste Modernism 2 (Sydney)
    • Tiger Translate (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
    • Anti Design Festival [where?]
    • Wild Fantasies (Stolen Space Gallery, London)
    • Bhopal Medical Appeal (Phillips De Pury, London)
  • 2009
    • 1980 Mobil Box Foundation (Cartier, Paris)
    • A Shot in the Dark (Czech Republic)
    • Further Complications with Jarvis Cocker (London)
    • Go Get your Shinebox (Brooklynite, New York)
    • Secret Blisters (London)
  • 2008
    • Santa's Ghetto (London)
    • The Beautiful and the Canned (Brighton)
    • Cruel Britannia (Philadelphia)
    • Film Friends Forever (London)
    • Urban Myth (Culver City, CA)
    • Urban (Ibiza)
    • Mutate Britain (London)
    • International Arts (Belgium)
    • Cans Festival 1+2 (London)
    • Stella Dore Sebastian (Guinness Gallery, Dublin)
    • Not a Penny off the Pay (Bristol)
    • Alternativity (London)
  • 2007
    • Open Studio (London)
    • International Arts (Belgium)
  • 2006
    • Santa's Ghetto (London)
    • International Arts (Belgium)
  • 2005

Lectures[edit]

  • 2009 Beautiful Losers ICA London
  • 2008 Collecting Street Art Tate Modern London
  • 2007 Street Art ICA London

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Wilson, Kevin (13 October 2011). "ArtMan: Start your art collection – Prints". LondonLovesBusiness.com. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  2. ^ "Artworks by Pure Evil at Pure Evil Gallery on artnet". Artnet. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  3. ^ "The world of Pure Evil, graffiti artist". The Daily Telegraph. 9 August 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  4. ^ "John Uzzell Edwards: Artist whose fascination with the Welsh industrial landscape gave way to the "pure painting" approach". The Independent. 3 April 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  5. ^ "12 things no one tells you before you become a street artist". The Daily Telegraph. 6 November 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Urban, edgy, lucrative". Financial Times. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  7. ^ Nick Curtis (12 June 2014). "Graffiti artist Pure Evil: 'I've had 10-year-olds telling me Banksy". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  8. ^ "The great online art illusion: A cautionary tale". The Independent. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  9. ^ Reyburn, Scott (23 March 2011). "Jenson Button's Ferrari Boxer May Sell for $180,000: Art Buzz". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  10. ^ Eller, Matthew. "Pure Evil Interview & Opening at The Quin Hotel NYC". Street Art News. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  11. ^ "PURE EVIL, 25th of February 2022". Oink Gallery. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  12. ^ Zimmer, Lori. "Pure Evil Descends on the Quin". Art Nerd. Retrieved 19 April 2016.

External links[edit]

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