Charles Uzzell-Edwards (born in South Wales in 1968) is a graffiti artist known by the moniker "Pure Evil". He is the son of Welsh painter John Uzzell Edwards.
Uzzell-Edwards has exhibited globally. In the early 1990s he was one of the designers for Anarchic Adjustment with Alan Brown and Nick Philip and released electronic ambient music on Pete Namlook's FAX label, recording "Octopus" 1, 2 & 3 and "Dada" (under the pseudonym Drum Machine Circle) solo, producing "A New Consciousness" and "Create" 1 & 2 with Pete Namlook, recording "Supergroup" with Thomas Bullock, and "Audio" with Tetsu Inoue and Daimon Beail. The Pure Evil Gallery is run by Uzzell-Edwards and located in Shoreditch, London.
In 2011, Uzzell-Edwards created a special edition of prints to raise money for the victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
In the spring of 2016, Uzzell-Edwards served as artist-in-residence of the Quin Arts program at the Quin Hotel in New York City. His solo exhibit, curated by DK Johnston, channeled Andy Warhol, creating a body of work rooted in repetition art and showcasing his trademark eye drips in a series of hand-finished fine prints on paper and canvas. The exhibit opened on April 21st and also incorporated a collection of written words by the artist in a video art installation directed by award-winning filmmaker Bill Mack.
2016Pure Evil as curated by DK Johnston for Quin Arts (The Quin Hotel, New York)2012Pure Evil Deconstructed Nightmares (Pure Evil Gallery, London)Pure Evil goes POP! (Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, USA)2011Pure Evil Nightmares (La Cantine De Faubourg, Paris)Pure Evil Nightmares (The Scarlett Gallery, StockholmPure Evil (The Garage, Amsterdam)Pure Evil (Cologne)The Last Good Time (Pure Evil XOYO)Pure Evil Solo (Pure Evil Gallery)2010Pure Evil (Paris)Strange Girls (Pure Evil, London)2009Pure Evil Gallery (London)Dark Carnival (Choque Cultural, São Paulo)SoloShow (Amsterdam)2008SoloShow (Urban Uprising, Sydney)Live East Die Young (Ink'd, Brighton)Run! The Old World Is Behind You (ATM, Berlin)SoloShow (Electrick Sheep, Newcastle)2007SoloShow (FakeSpace, Beijing)SoloShow (Pure Evil Gallery, London)SoloShow (Truman's Brewery, London)2014Face To Face (with John Uzzell Edwards) (Tenby Museum & Art Gallery, Tenby)2012Urban (Ibiza)Unnatural Natural History (Royal West of England Academy, Bristol)Bastard Children of Pop (London)Group Show (Lebenson Gallery, Paris)Pick Me Up (Somerset House, London)Art Contemporain Urbain (Angers, France)Quick Moves (Mannheimer Kunstverein, Germany)Stra-Da (Arthouse 59, Cyprus)International Urban Art (Stade De France, Paris)Pure Evil + (Crossie, Vienna)2011Group Show (Lebenson Gallery, Paris)Group Show (Print Club, London)Street art (from the Victoria and Albert Museum touring exhibition)Blisters Blackout (Print Club, London)20103 exhibition (Lebenson Galleri, Paris)London Calling (Moscow)Paste Modernism 2 (Sydney)Tiger Translate (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)Anti Design FestivalWild Fantasies (Stolen Space Gallery, London)Bhopal Medical Appeal (Phillips De Pury, London)20091980 Mobil Box Foundation (Cartier, Paris)A Shot in the Dark (Czech Republic)Further Complications with Jarvis Cocker (London)Go Get your Shinebox (Brooklynite, New York)Secret Blisters (London)2008Santa's Ghetto (London)The Beautiful and the Canned (Brighton)Cruel Britannia (Philadelphia)Film Friends Forever (London)Urban Myth (Culver City, CA)Urban (Ibiza)Mutate Britain (London)International Arts (Belgium)Cans Festival 1+2 (London)Stella Dore Sebastian (Guinness Gallery, Dublin)Not a Penny off the Pay (Bristol)Alternativity (London)2007Open Studio (London)International Arts (Belgium)2006Santa's Ghetto (London)International Arts (Belgium)2005Difusor (Barcelona)Paris Stencil Project2009 Beautiful Losers ICA London2008 Collecting Street Art Tate Modern London2007 Street Art ICA London
