Mason Storm

Mason Storm is the ‘enfant terrible’ of the urban art world, and an artist who’s work and raison d’être defies any solid definition.

 Having turned his back on a promising career in the law Mason draws his influences from those things around him, whether they inspire him mystify or anger him.

Mason is not afraid to ruffle feathers whether it’s the wider world or among his peers in the small orbit of the urban art community. Masons child suicide bomber sculpture (little terror) caused consternation around the world. However his threat to expose the iconic underground street artist Banksy brought Mason into direct confrontation with many in the street art community. Mason received death threats and praise in equal numbers. The subsequent unveiling of his Banksy portrait showed and artists with a monkeys head. The project was nothing more than a social experiment into human nature and the cult of celebrity. Whether the Monkey head was a nod to Darwin or whether it was statement saying he had made monkeys out of his critics is Masons alone to know!

“People have labelled me many things, an artist a showman, an ego maniac and some things I can’t repeat. Unfortunately many people have failed to look beyond the images and understand the message. My child suicide bomber was indeed created to shock, but to shock people into understanding the plight suffered by chid soldiers the world over who have to fight, kill and die alongside grown men. My portrait of a black man dressed in Klu Klux Klan robes (equal opportunities?) was created at the time the British National Party were gaining credibility as a political party in this country which I thought was absurd. The delicious irony was that if they wanted that credibility they would have to open their party up to people of all races which I found hilarious and my painting was my statement on that”...

Mason’s philosophy about his art and how it will be received is a straightforward simple one, unlike the man himself!

“If you love my art buy it and love it, if you hate my work, buy it and burn it!”

“If you like my work, fabulous, if you hate my work, tremendous, if you can take it or leave it, disaster