PURE EVIL

UNITED KINGDOM
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Charles Uzzell-Edwards is a graffiti and street artist known better known by the moniker Pure Evil. His tag of a vampire bunny rabbit was bore from the artist's feeling of remorse after shooting a rabbit in the countryside as a youth. Charley explains, I've always regretted this terrible deed and the idea is that the rabbit is coming back to haunt me. Having Pure Evil as a nickname is a bit of a joke, Charley confesses, but it's a license to have fun with dark imagery. Pure Evil's street art began in California, where he would paint DUMP BUSH on freeways and MURDERERS on gun stores. After 10 years in California, heavily influenced by West Coast graffiti artists like TWIST and REMINISCE and skate art, he returned to London and began painting weird fanged Pure Evil bunny rabbits everywhere. 'I started to miss London', he explains, 'It's a dirty places, but it's the dirt that helps things to grow. Pure Evil fell in with the people behind Banksy's Santas Ghetto and started producing dark new prints and artwork. In the past five years he has exhibited worldwide in China, Russia, Mongolia, Brazil, USA, and all over Europe. In May 2012 Pure Evil appeared on the prime time BBC TV show The Apprentice, where he took part in an urban art task, this led to a huge increase in interest for his work.ﾠFor the duration of 2014 Pure Evil has embarked on ambitious project, 365 Street Art, promising himself he would paint, stencil or paste something up in public everyday for a year.

To see the scarves designed by Pure Evil and other artists, follow this link.