D*Face is one of the most prolific contemporary urban artists of his generation. Working with a variety of mediums and techniques, he uses a family of dysfunctional characters to satirise and to hold to ransom all that falls into their grasp – a welcome jolt of subversion in today’s media-saturated environment.
His aim is to encourage the public not just to see, but to look at what surrounds them and their lives, reflecting our increasingly bizarre fascination with celebrity, fame consumerism and materialism, rethinking, reworking and subverting imagery appropriated from currency, advertising, comic books, these now iconic motifs, cultural figures and genres are subverted to comment upon our conspicuous society.
His work can be seen across a variety of different media, applying his playful, tongue-in-cheek imagery with anti-establishment values. His work regularly sells at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams auction houses and yet he still continues to put his work illegally into the public domain, and as such has extensively traveled the world showing and disseminating his artwork.
In 2005 D*Face set up the gallery “Stolen Space”, which continues to be Londons foremost contemporary urban art gallery.
