mock the system
This is my visual megaphone. Loud, sarcastic, and dripping with disdain for political theatre. Here, art becomes protest. Some pieces tackle real-world events head-on, others play in the symbolic sandbox of peace signs, Guy Fawkes masks, and anarchic iconography. Expect graffiti-flavoured satire, subversive characters, and comic-strip chaos that’d probably get spiked in a Sunday paper. It’s anti-establishment, anti-spin, anti-bullshit and occasionally, accidentally profound. From local farce to global fiasco, nothing and no one is safe.
Drawn during the 2024 uk elections. Red or blue, the war pigs are always waging war for breakfast
The two faced clown
The Iron Lady
War child, holding a peace flower.
FREE PALESTINE watermelon.
Palestinian flag, with a peace flower growing from the rubble
Drawn over on Christmas morning of 2023, feeling very fortunate Sleven had a roof over my head and their was no mass bombing on his doorstep . Below is the writing from this post on his instagram. No manger for baby Jesus today. Just a a pile of rubble, body parts and streets turned to rivers of red. Whatever you’re doing today, whether with loved ones or on your own, please take a moment to put some love and positive energy into the universe for all the people that are being killed n tortured, both physically and mentally, right now. Not just in Palestine but everywhere else on the planet as well. In hope that one day we evolve past the fear n greed that the few use to oppress n control the many. Without hope, without faith, without unity, without love, we have no future! Be kind to one and other and show love people, it’s goes a long way and spreads like wildfire if coming from an honest place. We can be better! Peace n love peoples, have a blessed day Xx
This was drawn after finding out about the D528 bombs that were being dropped on Palestine. These bombs contain white phosphorus, when impact is reached, explode a dense white smoke into a large area that has the ability to reach temperatures of 800 degrees celsius, which is efficient enough to melt metal. If it comes in contact with human skin, just 10% exposure is enough to be fatal. This led sleven to thinking about how this was such a malicious sadistic way for kids to be dying, well just anyone to be dying, regardless of whether someone has supposedly done something wrong or not or seen as a lessor human to them. It seems to be the case that, if you're dropping bombs like this on people, you're the lessor human. The choice of character on here is baby Herman, from Who framed Rogger Rabbit but with a change in skin tone. The use of this character is to give familiarity to a western audience, in hope that they may feel more drawn to feeling some kind of emotion towards, possible help or spread the word of what's going on in this all out extermination.
This was drawn in 2023 after finding out about the Messenia boat disaster. With around 750 people on the boat trying to escape the countries they were coming from. A total of 646 were believed to be dead or lost at sea during the drawing of this. All these humans are presented here, in stick people form below the capsized boat, in the bloody sea. Sleven's heart was torn with pain over this, by the lack of respect that was given in legacy media and also the lack of coverage it was given and also the lack of consideration n care given by the Greek coast guards whom cold handedly dealt with the situation in their waters. This became even more frustratingly painful to witness as only a few days later, 5 wealthy plonkers died in a some sketchy submarine they'd built. Yet the mass legacy media coverage was going crazy over this and how it was such a tragedy. Double standards right there for ya!
As Above So Below painting on canvas
As Above So Below. This phrase originates from the emerald tablets, which were often attributed to practicing alchemist Hermes Trismegistus. It means that there is a distinct correspondence between what goes on in the physical realm, and what occurs in the metaphysical realms. Over the centuries, it's taken on certain meanings, often similar in meaning, in practices such as witch craft, given meaning in cultural mythologies such as the Greeks and Egyptians and also used as subject matter in film, music and the arts. Slevens' take on this in this specific image, is of political stagnation. How no matter which political body you vote for, they're both going to give you the same out come, just sun with a different thread of the shit cloth because they're two sides of the same coin! Blue & Red have been chosen as the main colours, as they represent the two main colours often utilised in representing a political party. Demons with pitchforks showcase the devilishly backhanded tactics often used by these political bests. All packaged in a political style voting poster.
Political demon with "The devil wears khakis" Goose lyric written above it, from an apolitical hip-hop track called Guy Fawkes.
Off with his head! Drawn during the Coronation of ol’ Charlie sausages fingers. Using pictures of sausages in the flag and bacon in his face. God save us all!
Created during the queens jubilee, in 2022/23 maybe, whenever her last jubilee was before she kicked it. It's a take on the sex pistols God Save The Queen record cover. But this has a lengthy bit of text on the newspaper cuttings, that read " GOD Save THE PUBLIC cos this outdated, vile, villainous, tax wasting, peado supporting, country invading, blood shedding, money & jewel thieving wench, ain't doing shit for us! With 'Stolen Jewles" scrawled across her crown, "Blood Diamonds" scrawled across her necklace and the obligatory school child diss of a nazi insignia on her forehead.
Drawn when this bumbling reptilian bigot puppet came into power
Happy New Fear! New year, New Fear! Drawn on new years day of 2020. Back when Borris the muppet had just started running a muck as prime minister.
Off with her head! Drawn during another one of her jubilees or maybe one of her birthdays, either way, still humorous! Can you tell Sleven has a lack of respect for the royal scamily!
Be The Change You Want To See. This was created for an online illustration battle, that took place during lockdown. The theme for the battle was "Change". This is about breaking free from that drone mind state and becoming the change you want to see in the world. Here the drone of pupa in suits represent how the masses can often get stuck in a pupa like state, they're at that stage before birthing into their true form and away from the flock but they stay stuck in a chrysalis of mind numbing stagnation, carrying on within a cyclical routine. The suits, ties, uniformed formation and shackles, hint at the 9 to 5 life and its conformity to routine that people often get enslaved too. Adding more context to what it is to be stuck in that state before breaking through and becoming the change you want to see. The enlightened being, centre front, has broken free from this enslavement of conformity and drone like stagnation, and embraced the change within. Because of this he's grown his brightly coloured butterfly wings. Butterflies are symbolically know for their meaning of transformation, hope, resilience, love, guidance, patience, renewal, freedom and inner peace. These are all the fundamental schematics of change. His third eye has become wide open to what he was chained to. His shackles broken free by the growth of flowers that have grown from the concrete beneath his feet and clutching a journal and spray can. These are all other forms of symbolism that represent change.
It’s Tory wetting season! Drawn when the Tory covid era was in full effect and these three dumb plums were up to more mischief than the fantastic Mr Foxes plotting on Boggis, Bunce and Bean.
Here, have a flower my fellow anarchist friend and may your day be fruitful with unquenchable change and love!
Resist, Revolt, Evolve! The meaning behind this slogan is of a political, social and even spiritual nature. In order to evolve past the broken, corrupt system we live in politically or the broken, materialistic, selfish system we live in socially or the numbing, negative thought nagging repetition of the ego we deal with on personally. We have to first say no! and resist that system. Secondly we have to revolt against it until change comes about. And thirdly is when we evolve from embracing what we've just had to go through to get to that point of change. Having the molotov n Guy Fawkes mask, adds to the rebellious message behind this slogan, whilst the heart and eyeball donate towards the more social & spiritual side of the slogan.
Resist Revolt Evolved. Painted for an exhibition a few years back and sold at said exhibition
Digital mock of the resist, revolt, evolve canvas
Pigs in tit helmets
Guy Fawkes/v for vendetta wall concept
Burn Down Babylon
Illustration of Guy Fawkes
Piece painted on an old graffiti board that was chopped into pieces from the bear pit tunnels in Bristol for an exhibition at the PRSC, back around 2020 I believe. All the boards were painted by different artists , that kept the original back ground and added their own piece on to it and then hung next to each other to create one giant piece. Keeping in theme with the bear pit mascot, I went with a bear and Guy Fawkes mask to represent the anarchic souls of the bear pit and prsc.