
Artist: Phlegm + Sweet Toof
Title: Toof Harvest
Medium: Hand Painted Copperplate Etching HPM
Size: 47.5 x 25.5 cm
Edition: 90
Price: £350

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Phlegm is a highly acclaimed, anonymous Welsh-born artist known for his distinctive, intricate, monochrome illustrative style that first emerged in the mid-2000s from the UK's urban art scene. Originally a prolific comic book illustrator, he successfully translated his detailed, surreal, and often dystopian imagery from paper to large-scale public murals and gallery spaces worldwide. His signature style is instantly recognizable, featuring dense, fantastical worlds populated by bizarre, mechanical, and organic figures, often towering narratives that intertwine and overlap across entire building facades. Phlegm's work consistently explores complex themes of industrialization, mythology, environmental decay, and philosophical narratives about the human condition and creation itself.
The artist prefers to create immersive, site-specific installations, utilizing the existing architecture to inform the composition, making each piece a unique dialogue between his imagination and the urban landscape. His pieces, almost exclusively black and white, reject the vibrant color palette typical of many street artists, forcing the viewer to focus instead on the overwhelming detail, line work, and narrative depth. He operates with a high degree of anonymity, allowing his elaborate, sprawling works to speak for themselves. Phlegm has exhibited in major cities globally, including London, New York, Toronto, and Sydney, establishing himself not just as a street artist, but as a significant force in contemporary fine art, celebrated for his technical precision and imaginative scope. His practice continually blurs the lines between street art, fine art, and sequential illustration.