The Drawings and Paintings of a Reclusive Man-Boy

About

Listen04 is a painter and drawer currently living and working in the UK. Obsessive and intensely private he spends up to 12 hours a day in the small room in which he works and over recent years has amassed a prolific body of over 3,000 drawings and paintings in pencil, felt tips, acrylic and watercolour. His pictures have been exhibited in group shows in the UK, Holland, Denmark and America, belong in both national and international collections and have been featured in a wide variety of blogs, magazines and books including a self published paperback entitled ‘Stop. Look. Listen — Some drawings by Listen04'. This exhibition is a collection of over 40 key works in pencil, felt tips and watercolour created over the last 3 years. Difficult to categorise, Listen04's work is a surreal blend of naà ¯ve imagery, amusing wordplay and a childlike outlook on the world which can be both humorous and disturbing. Popular culture and ideas are re-arranged in a way that highlights and embraces their absurdist nature whilst at the same time undermining them through the use of humour.