Monday 16 March 2009

INKFETISH


Tom ‘Inkfetish’ Blackford was born in London 1981, where he currently lives and works as an illustrator/concept artist as well as exhibiting his paintings and mural work in gallery shows and related events throughout the London area and beyond.

After a couple of years of self publishing comics, his minor cult status increased after unleashing his twisted characters and worlds they inhabit onto the walls of the city and beyond via the medium of spraypaint, enabling him to realise his work on a much larger scale and giving the general public a portal into his world. Through learning how to paint with aerosol, he naturally progressed into canvas using techniques he’d learnt through graffiti and adopting them into the practice of rendering his paintings with acrylics. In doing so, his work has found It’s way into galleries across London exhibiting along side others within the ‘low brow’ fraternity. In September 2008 he was selected as part of a group of 200 artists from across the world to exhibit at the Pixar Animation studios in San Francisco as part of a show based on the iconic movie ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ by acclaimed Animator/Director Hayao Miyazaki. 
Clients include: Marvel, MTV (Europe), Nike, Ecko, Carhaart, Barbican, Vanity Fair (Italy), Manga Entertainment and EA Games amongst others.

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