Beejoir

Beejoir (born 1979) is a contemporary artist, curator and co-founder of Souled Out Studios UK and Japan with Jon Michael Vogel. Born in England, Beejoir is now permanently based in Asia.[1]

Artwork

With a body of works spanning fine painting, stencils and spray paint, print and sculpture; Beejoir creates satirical pieces commenting on vice, popular culture, super brands and consumerism. Popular works include the LV Child, A Pill a Day, Money Trap and Immodium[2][3][4]

With a background rooted in Graffiti, Beejoirs conceptual works generated international attention when in 2007, auction sales at Bonhams and Phillips secured his place in the interested circles of Contemporary Art[5]

Financial Times editor Rachel Spence described Beejoirs work as 'irreverent' in response to his 2013 installation 'Saatchi and Saatchi', an old-fashioned Punch and Judy theatre on display at Londons Moniker Arts Fair[6]

Beejoir has exhibited worldwide, with 3 shows in Tokyo Japan,[7][8] USA London and Asia having curated is as many countries through independent projects and Souled Out Studios with his arsenal of artists including Mau Mau, Alexface and Bon.

Other projects

Featured in the 2007 Documentary Bomb it 2 by Director Jon Reiss[9] Marketed as going "where no graffiti documentary had gone before",[10] Bomb it 2 followed Graffiti artists from Australia, Asia and the middle East in a follow up on the groundbreaking documentary Bomb it.

Executive Producer of the Documentary Dirty White Gold. based on 300,000 Indian farmers who killed themselves to escape debt, Dirty White gold was a feature-length production calling for transparency and reform in the fashion idustries[11]

Featured in numerous publications for his contribution to the arts including Beyond the Street: The 100 leading figures in Urban Art.[12]

Beejoir is currently preparing for a solo exhibition in Bangkok Thailand titled NRCSSM due to open December 2015.

References

  1. ↑ "Beejoir". www.beejoir.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
  2. ↑ youtube.com/devicesupport, 2015-04-17, retrieved 2015-05-23
  3. ↑ "Biography of Beejoir – BLOUIN ARTINFO, The Premier Global Online Destination for Art and Culture | BLOUIN ARTINFO". www.blouinartinfo.com. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
  4. ↑ "Beejoir Auction Results – Beejoir on artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
  5. ↑ "Bonhams : Beejoir (b. 1979) Immodium 3". www.bonhams.com. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
  6. ↑ Spence, Rachel (October 18, 2013). "A mature kind of mischief". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
  7. ↑ "Beejoir/Mau Mau (Exhibition) | MOSA". mosa.tokyo. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
  8. ↑ "Where's Mau Mau? Beejoir (Be sure) to meet him at Stall Baggage, Tokyo!". Retrieved 2015-05-23.
  9. ↑ "Beejoir". IMDb. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
  10. ↑ Bomb It 2, 6 Aug 2013, retrieved 2015-05-23
  11. ↑ Fernandez, Belen. "Dirty white gold". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
  12. ↑ "Beyond the Street". Gestalten. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
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