DFace
22-Oct-2009
D*Face's humorous and nihilistic work brings together the generation who don't give a fuck. It fuses both traditional and contemporary graffiti, independent comic book art and good old-fashioned vandalism. D*Face is best-known for putting hundreds of provocatively 'defaced' ten and twenty pound notes.
Working
with a variety of mediums and techniques, D*Face uses a family of
dysfunctional characters to satirise and 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.
Recent examples include his collaboration with H.R.H Queen Elizabeth II
on a series of bank notes that were put into circulation for an
unsuspecting public to notice them in their change. Then, to
commemorate the instatement of Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican
commissioned D*Face to paint a portrait. The piece was shown for the
first time at the Outside Institute in May 2005, as well as on MTV
Rome, to critical acclaim.ST BIO