REVIEW
Motorboy has slowly and surely developed an individual style within an arena
that has become crowded by copyists. Never following the fashionable crowd
for a first impression (the first time I met him, in a Bristol nightclub,
he gave me a carefully handwritten A4 sheet of Milton's Paradise Lost) he
is, as a constant challenging the titles and associations of contemporary
urban art.
His work is a visual kick up the backside of twenty-first century consumer
culture. Bright colours, appropriated and mutated corporate logos, the sentiments
of favourite cartoon characters and little, indirect, accusatory messages
that serve to jumble around each other and stick not only a pin in the eye
of our buy, buy, buy society but also in the sometimes tired world of 'graffiti
art'.
His work has irony without pretentiousness, fun without frivolity and a
message without melodrama.
Guy Denning (April 2008)
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