PDot 'C3PO' Ghost Available
Artist: PDot
Title: C3PO Ghost
Medium: Framed Foil on Foam Board
Size: 40 x 40 cm
Edition: UNIQUE
Prices: €200
PDot is a British mixed-media artist who turns urban debris into luminous contemporary relics. Born in 1981 and raised in the post-industrial landscape of northern England, he grew up skateboarding past crumbling mills and collecting rusted bottle tops, an archive of discarded metal that now forms the backbone of his practice. Working from a former textile warehouse in Leeds, he layers aerosol, screen-print and resin over sheets of reclaimed steel, tin and lead, building surfaces that shimmer like oil slicks caught in sunrise.
His imagery merges hard-edge abstraction with fragments of pop culture: torn sweet wrappers, vintage toy adverts and cryptic slogans float amid geometric shards of chrome and cobalt. The process is both additive and reductive; he sands, scratches and torches the metal to expose raw oxidisation, then seals the decay under high-gloss resin so rust becomes jewel-like. Each piece is titled after forgotten brands or playground rhymes, nudging viewers toward half-remembered childhoods while confronting the throwaway culture that fuels climate anxiety.
Commercial clients including Dr. Martens and Red Bull have commissioned large-scale walls, yet PDot balances paid work with grassroots projects, teaching local teenagers to turn scrap into statement pieces for community gardens. Recent exhibitions at Sunny Bank Mills and The Art House Wakefield sold out, with collectors praising the way his work “makes entropy beautiful.”
Whether welding a three-metre shard of factory roof into a wall relief or hand-painting a limited vinyl toy, PDot approaches every surface with the same goal: transform what society discards into objects worth preservation, proving that beauty can bloom anywhere corrosion and creativity collide.
