MOTORBOY

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)