-Taking Jamie Reid-style punk ideas to the Arctic and beyond D*Face creates classic street art that's weird, complex and he often uses juxtaposition in his artwork.
Like Banksy, his imagery is wry, graphic and accessible. He started out producing Disney-influenced pop characters, which he printed on stickers and posters. Now he makes more complex, playfully anti-establishment graphic pieces fusing gothic skulls with icons from Che Guevara to the Queen.
‘The idea of playing with iconic British imagery had instant appeal,..I guess it goes back to being influenced by punk music as a child. Those images are instantly tangible and so loaded that they lend themselves perfectly to reinterpretation and juxtaposition.’
D-face.
He created a series of prints on banknotes and circulate them.
D*face has always been keen to promote a crossover between street art and galleries, but still sees urban interventions as vital to the art’s impact.
‘Putting work into the public domain enables one person’s voice to be heard and seen by hundreds instantly; thousands if the spot’s right. That has appeal when you want to get the public to stop and question what they’re being spoon-fed.’
There’s a political element to the work, inevitably, but nothing’s didactic. Instead D*face creates what he calls ‘a subversive intermission’ into daily life.
"...one day whilst dreaming up further ideas in the series of 'Ways to kill time' the pencil lines on the pad started to become characters, strange and dysfunctional they formed my dysfunctional world which had no rule....This family of dysfunctional characters began evolve, they started to satirise and hold to ransom all that fell into their grasp – a welcome jolt of subversion in today’s media-saturated environment - the very same thing I'd grown up on."
D*Face.
These are some of his artworks.
He also did street installations.
His largest work was a car sculpture, ‘Drone Dog’, consisting of D*face’s signature character smashing into a car – complete with in-built smoke machine. The piece now sits in the Truman Brewery car park, east London, near the street-art gallery Stolen Space that he founded and runs.
Personally i like his style and the way he do his work. He's work is really unique and i think he cleverly used juxtaposition to create the artworks of his own. I like the way that its weird and its visually enticing.
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