Scotland’s Jute Museum @ Verdant Works is currently undergoing a massive re-development; restoring the 1833 High Mill. The project will create dynamic new public spaces for a wide range of learning, cultural, artistic and community events in Dundee.
One such event that Dundee Heritage Trust hope to put on requires the help of the people of Dundee and Scotland!!
- Scotland’s Jute Museum @ Verdant Works is one of 4 museums picked by the internationally recognised graffiti artist PURE EVIL to go head to head to a public vote. The only Museum in Scotland to actually reach the shortlist so we want to get as many people voting for us as possible.
- The venue with the most votes wins the artist to lead a Hallowe\'en event as part of the Museums at Night festival.
- If successful, PURE EVIL will transform the High Mill for one night only- with an ambitious programme of light, projections, sound and sculpture.
- Make sure you vote to get the chance to take part in a magical art happening in Dundee, that you have helped create.
Anna Murray, Learning & Audiences Officer for Dundee Heritage Trust said ‘This would be an absolutely fantastic coup for Dundee and for Scotland’s Jute Museum @ Verdant Works, bringing such an internationally renowned artist to the city and to Scotland would be amazing. Verdant Works need your vote to make this happen … !’
VOTE ONLINE NOW! http://bit.ly/connectpureevil
Voting starts on Friday 1st May and closes on Sat 16 May.
Notes for editors
1. … but who is PURE EVIL?
To understand a bit about Pure Evil it is illuminating to know that he is a descendant of Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor who wrote the controversial work Utopia and who was later beheaded by King Henry VIII. With this busy background (Sir Thomas was later canonised) it is only natural that Pure Evil should explore the darker side of the wreckage of Utopian dreams and the myth of the Apocalypse, a belief in the life-changing event that brings history with all its conflicts to an end.
In 1990 Pure Evil left “the ruins of Thatcher’s Britain” for a new life on the West Coast , California USA and became a designer for influential streetwear clothing label ANARCHIC ADJUSTMENT, producing clothes and screenprinting t-shirt graphics and becoming involved in the electronic music scene in San Francisco, eventually ending up a recording artist for ambient record label FAX based in Frankfurt, Germany.
After 10 years in California , influenced heavily by West Coast Graffiti artists like TWIST and REMINISCE he returned to London , picked up a spray can and started painting weird fanged PURE EVIL bunny rabbits everywhere.
Pure Evil fell in with the people behind Banksy’s SANTAS GHETTO and started producing prints for PICTURES ON WALLS. He was refused entry back into the USA, and subsequently started plotting and producing dark new prints and artwork in a tiny shed in the Black Mountains of Wales.
He moved back to London, debuted his first PURE EVIL SOLO SHOW and from the success of that, opened up his eponymous PURE EVIL GALLERY in a Dickensian old shop and basement in Shoreditch in the East End of London in 2007.
As an artist in the past 5 years PURE EVIL has exhibited worldwide in China, Russia, Mongolia, Brazil, USA and all over Europe, and as an ‘Accidental Gallerist’ He has produced over 50 different exhibitions with emerging and established artists at the Gallery and Internationally.
2. About Dundee Heritage Trust
Formed in 1985, Dundee Heritage Trust is a registered charity dedicated to the guardianship, preservation and portrayal of Dundee’s Heritage in ways that educate, inspire and enlighten current and future generations.
3. About the Heritage Lottery Fund
Using money raised through the National lottery, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) aims to make a lasting difference for heritage, people and communities across the UK and help build a resilient heritage economy. From museums, parks and historic places to archaeology, natural environment and cultural traditions, we invest in every part of our diverse heritage. HLF has supported more than 3,000 projects with an investment of over £582 million across Scotland. www.hlf.org.uk
4. About Historic Scotland
Historic Scotland is an executive agency of the Scottish Government charged with safeguarding the nation’s historic environment. The agency is fully accountable to Scottish Ministers and through them to the Scottish Parliament. For more information visit www.historic-scotland.gov.uk
For further information, images and interviews please contact: Anna Murray, Learning & Audiences Officer at Dundee Heritage Trust
T. 01382 309060 E. verdantlearning@dundeeheritage.co.uk
