Charles Uzzell Edwards

Charles Uzzell Edwards

Charles Uzzell-Edwards (born in south Wales in 1968) is a graffiti artist known by the moniker "Pure Evil" and is a stablemate of Banksy. He has exhibited in New York, US, in the UK and in France. In the early 90's Charles 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 Charles Uzzell-Edwards and located in Shoreditch, London.

Charles Uzzell-Edwards' 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 of the Old English Chieftain Ailric, Kings Thane to Edward the Confessor, who held Cawthorne and much of South Yorkshire before the Conquest.

Solo Shows:

2010 Pure Evil Paris
2010 Strange Girls Pure Evil London
2009 Pure Evil Gallery London
2009 Dark Carnival Choque Cultural São Paulo
2009 SoloShow Kspace Amsterdam
2008 SoloShow Urban Uprising Sydney
2008 Live East Die Young Ink’d Brighton
2008 Run! The Old World Is Behind You ATM Berlin
2008 SoloShow Electrick Sheep Newcastle
2007 SoloShow FakeSpace Beijing
2007 SoloShow Pure Evil Gallery London
2007 SoloShow Truman Brewery London
2006 55 gallery NYC

Group Shows

2010 London Calling Moscow
2010 Paste Modernism 2 Sydney
2010 Tiger Translate Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
2010 Bhopal Medical Appeal Phillips De Pury London
2009 1980 Mobil Box Fondation Cartier Paris
2009 A Shot in the Dark Czech Republic
2009 Secret Bllisters London
2009 The Beautiful and the Canned Brighton
2009 Cruel Britannia Philadelphia
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:
2009 Beautiful Losers ICA London
2008 Collecting Street Art Tate Modern London
2007 Street Art ICA London

External links