Pure Evil

Charles Uzzell-Edwards is a graffiti and urban street artist more commonly known as Pure Evil. His father is Welsh painter John Uzzell Edwards. Charles confesses that “Having Pure Evil as a moniker is a bit of a laugh, but it has been a license to have some fun with darker imagery. It also reflects the darkness that is in the world in the present day. You cannot just ignore it and do cheerful nice pictures of unicorns. Unless of course it is a unicorn that has a rocket launcher on top of its head.”

Pure Evil was born in the South of Wales and he studied fashion and graphics in London, UK. At the start of the 90’s he was living on the West Coast, whilst working as a designer for a clothing label called Anarchic Adjustment with Alan Brown and Nick Philip. He also produced screenprint t-shirts and became involved in the electronic/dance music scene in San Francisco, eventually ending up recording for ambient record label FAX out of Frankfurt, Germany. After making electronic/dance music for about four years, he was bored and decided to return to London.