Pure Evil

Charles Uzzell-Edwards, a.k.a. PURE EVIL, is a key artist in the London Street scene. He currently lives and works in London, UK, after spending ten years in California, USA. Pure Evil’s art varies from graffiti and making his mark on the streets, to the Nightmare paintings of icons crying blood which he sells from his gallery in Shoreditch.

Whilst living in California, Uzzell-Edwards designed clothes and printed t-shirts for the streetwear brand label ANARCHIC ADJUSTMENT. The identity and artist persona PURE EVIL emerged when Uzzell-Edwards returned to London 10 years later and began to paint bunny rabbits on the streets, having been inspired by TWIST and REMINISCE, famous graffiti artists working on the West Coast of California. Pure Evil’s background in graffiti and street art resonates in many of his works of art. In 2014, Pure Evil made it a mission to decorate the streets every day for a year, whether it be pasted, stencilled, or painted. Pure Evil is noted for his haunting rabbit logo and his nom d’arte, which is the result of persistent guilt over a rabbit he shot as a child in Wales. As well as his own gallery, the Pure Evil Gallery, Pure Evil has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Paris, London, Beijing, Brighton, all across the United States of America, and as far as Mongolia.