Doodle no choice but to relentlessly make new work to trade for cash and supplies that would eventually allow him to build a new spaceship and reassert his rightful claim on the slice of the Paper Galaxy he’d transformed into Doodle Land. Scribble, exiled the artist back to Earth, where all of his creations had been wiped out by the Anti-Doodle Squad’s Eraser Laser. The two sides made a truce contingent on the artist blasting off to Doodle Land, part of a galaxy made of blank paper, where he could draw to his heart’s content.Īll was well until Mr. Doodle ran afoul of the fun-hating Anti-Doodle Squad by literally covering the entire planet in his imagery. Cox has developed a whimsical origin story that would fit snugly into an illustrated children’s book or animated Netflix series: Born with a compulsion to draw, Mr. When he returned to the finished show in his matching attire, Cox blended easily into his doodled environment, making for a perfect Instagram moment.Īll this plays into an ongoing world-building exercise. There, he drew a continuous mural across adjoining walls, up and down columns, onto adjacent flooring, and over a grand dining set complete with plates and a floral centerpiece.
The artist established the template in his first commercial solo exhibition, “ Attention Seeker ,” at London’s Hoxton Gallery in 2016. One fateful day, he waltzed into class “ fully dressed up in my hand-doodled attire,” at which point the instructor gave him the nickname that now gets auction paddles waving around the world.Īlthough Cox has contended that, on a personal level, he feels more himself in his Doodle gear than he would in typical clothes, his custom outfits play a more important role, literally merging the character with the rest of his artwork. In an email, Cox told Artnet News that he created his alter ego in December 2014, when he was still an ambitious but somewhat unassuming student in the illustration program at the University of West England in Bristol. Doodle finds Cox draped in clothing covered in his own signature imagery-the intricately interwoven pandemonium of cartoon creatures the artist sometimes refers to as “graffiti spaghetti.” (Imagine if Keith Haring adapted the Where’s Waldo? books, and you’ll start to get the picture.) For starters, any public appearance by Mr.
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