Pure Evil is a graffiti artist/clothes designer/general creative type. He has never been to prison. What is the world coming to?

Hello, please introduce yourself and tell us what it is that you do.

Hello my name is PURE EVIL and here is a little introduction to what it is I do:

In 1990 I left the Poll Tax Riots of London behind and went to live in California where I spent 10 years ingesting weapons grade psychedelics, thinking about stuff, making electronic music and printing t-shirts. Inspired by skateboard culture and the west coast character graffiti of Twist I returned to London and inexplicably picked up a spraycan and started painting weird fanged vampire bunnies everywhere. After having spent the past year working on new canvasses and prints inspired by 'the wreckage of utopian dreams and an apocalyptic vision of the end of time', I am now launching my vision of darkness on an unsuspecting world, trying to look at the BIG PICTURE... asking the tricky questions like:

'What does evil look like?'

'Why do humans seem to like conflict and explosions so much?'

'Are penguins naturally psychopathic and can they use nunchucks effectively?'

'Is earth actually a deep space battle station created millions of years ago by an evil galactic empire?'

Answers on a postcard to: 

PURE EVIL UK

Nowheresville.

UK.

http://www.pureevil.eu

Death Planet by Pure Evil

Your vandalism can be seen plastered across large swathes of the city. But your style is very different from traditional graffiti. Do you find traditional graffiti styles a little tired?

Yes it’s not my cup of tea unless it is REALLY REALLY GOOD... I appreciate it but personally I would rather paint crudely drawn apocalyptic animals than write my name again and again... 

I painted this in Barcelona this year and it made a lot of old folks with small dogs really happy... maybe because their small dogs liked weeing on it I don't know...

Guernica by Pure Evil (Barcelona)

When did your art make the jump from walls to clothing?

I have actually been doing clothing for about 15 years so it kind of jumped the other way, from clothing to the walls. I realised how much fun painting on walls was and then I knew I would never have to sit in a trade show and deal with bored buyers and instead I could travel around and paint pretty much whatever I liked wherever I liked without having to ask permission. Also selling a screenprint on a granite tombstone for £1000 is a lot more satisfying and lucrative than selling a print on a t-shirt for £20... just shipping it is more complicated..

Bunny Artwork Pure Evil

The theme for this issue is Prison. Have you ever been locked up for writing on walls?

I have never been picked up by the Fuzz but i have been swung around by my balls a few times...I quite liked it.

What is the most evil thing you have ever done? Where you punished for it?

When I was ten I killed a rabbit with a double barrelled shotgun. My punishment was that he became the undead PURE EVIL BUNNY and he has haunted me ever since, wailing and gnashing his teeth and chewing on electrical cables and making the TV go off...