Edmund Cavill

Johannesburg born to an Irish mother and Zimbabwean father, Edmund grew up in Lewisham until sent to work on a farm on the Mozambique border following his expulsion for ‘tagging’ the school toilets. A love of drawing driven by an obsession with graffiti led to a place at Camberwell school of art followed by a 20 year musical diversion, resulting in the signing to Island records with ‘Spacek’ and the release of his solo album ‘Lola Una’. Whilst occasional painting commissions and running ‘aerosol art’ workshops. He returned to a degree course at CASS. Struggling to seriously address the hierarchal issues around the fine art world, he hopes to transcend the snobbery that exists on all sides of London society. Working in layers of spray paint, airbrush, markers and oil on aluminium, paper and canvas, this recent work considers the theme of epic collapse, the post psychedelic eye romancing the apocalypse.

“Riot Tanker”, Painting, (spray paint, airbrush , acrylic, oil paint, canvas) 1.5x 3m