We sell limited edition archival quality art prints and posters featuring the artwork of HERSOID.
HERSOID is a British born painter, printmaker and designer who has lived in London, Sao Paulo, Thailand, Shanghai and Sheffield, and is now resident in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . His predominantly figurative work explores the way in which codes, signs and visual narrative can illuminate the existential conundrum of the modern individual and express the struggle to find a voice in a complex digital society.
HERSOID studied a foundation course at the Kent Institute of Art and Design and Illustration at Kingston University, London before taking his skills into the world of graphic design, for a prominent London Ad Agency. His first art exhibition in 2000 – an installation of ‘live paintings’ in London’s Shoreditch, reflected this relationship between image and text.
In 2001 HERSOID moved to Brazil and spent 4 years living in Sao Paulo. There he was able to focus on his painting, and developing initiatives, workshops and collaborative projects with young and disadvantaged people from the favelas around the city. This was a theme he continued to explore when he moved to Thailand in 2006, working with displaced Burmese migrants who had found refuge in neighbouring Thailand.
In 2007 he moved to Shanghai, and after a series of self-initiated projects with cultural tribes such as professional Chinese skateboarders and banned local Punk bands, joined forces with the Island6 art collective – an international group of multidisciplinary artists based in the city who explored the clash of cultures and economies that was the new ‘Open-for-business China’.
On his return to England in 2010 he moved to the East Midlands, near Sheffield, and carried out a variety of projects, residencies and collaborations in such diverse environments as a disused chocolate factory, a low end shopping mall and the empty shells of condemned buildings habited by Urban-exploration gangs.
He moved to Malaysia in August 2021, and established a studio where he focuses on drawing and painting as a stimulus for his collections of prints, 1/1 NFTs and unique paintings.