A Boz
Biography
BOZ ( 1972
- ???!!! )
Boz is a visual
artist, illustrator and cartoonist living & working in Dublin
City. His early training began in a somewhat unorthodox manner
by conducting attacks on every possible school surface. However,
with amateur espionage closing this avenue of expression, it was
soon time to move on and establish his own title. This underground
journal that has been described as " rabid scrawls "
coupled with typo-ridden writings on punk music became an entity
in 1990 and was the first of many NOSEBLEEDs published. The title
is, to this day, continually published in an ever evolving format.
Always reticent,
an unhealthy obsession with painting resurfaced from early teens
and was fueled by trawling and creepy-crawling through skips and
sheds for paint and off-cuts of wood. The results of which were
often glossy depictions of grim greyscale figures against bright
backgrounds on what had been old discarded table tops and cupboard
doors.
By the mid
1990's, vast contributions were being made to underground media
worldwide. A number of controversial record sleeves (the ones
which actually made it to press) helping to provide high levels
of notoriety. Being reluctantly dragged into operating in a professional
capacity, it wasn't long before widely varied commissions were
forthcoming - from corporate Christmas cards to children's picture
books to large canvases, but always retaining that trademark edge,
so obviously missing in much of what refers to itself today as
creative.
Recent years
have seen a vast workload of cartoons for commercial publications
(Ireland.com, The Phoenix etc....) side by side with darker contributions
to magazines with names like SICK PUPPY (NSW Australia) and FISTFUCKED
(Canada) amongst others.
Adjacent to
all of this is an ongoing line of paintings, mostly acrylic on
canvas, which are steadily becoming sought-after items amongst
underground collectors and people outside of the "real"
art world who are looking for something challenging and original.
Boz has been
the subject of praise, abuse, hate mail, 3 web sites, 2 exhibitions,
3 school projects - living proof that this work has somewhat fulfilled
it's purpose - to communicate, illustrate a point, and most importantly,
to bring a little light relief to life in an often depressing
environment
ROBBIN
BANKS - editor, THE POX 6/2002
