b.1982 in Darlington, UK. Lives and works in London.

Michael Pybys hijacks capitalist brands and icons as a means to create an instant ‘relationship’ with the audience. They may not know his work but everyone knows and has a relationship to brands and icons such as IKEA and Pikachu (love / hate or indifferent to them). Pybus processes this iconography through collage and painting (the scratchy dry brushing being his signature saturating the images that he’s appropriated) to create new meanings, reading and narratives. Through doing so Michael also lay claim to such imagery in a sense so that this generic iconography and branding becomes personally linked to himself which then goes full circle and becomes associated with a brand again, only this time it’s Michael Pybus’s  own brand as an artist.

Michael Pybus Pika IKEA toilet (blue), 2014 Oil on canvas 51 x 40cm
Michael Pybys, Pika (Hurt) 2015, Oil on canvas, 25 x 20cm
Michael Pybus, Not Going Anywhere 2014 Oil on canvas 25x20cm
Michael Pybus, I DON’T CARE! 2015 Oil on canvas 160 x 160 cm
Michael Pybus, Banana Selfie (Eat), 2014 Oil on canvas 62 x 47 cm
Michael Pybus, Banana Selfie (Roid) 2015 Oil on canvas 77x61cm
Michael Pybus, DOES ROBERT PATTINSON DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? 2015 Oil on canvas 100x70cm
Michael Pybus, Dinosaur Painting 2015 Oil on canvas 130x100cm
Michael Pybus, Dinosaur Painting 2015 Oil on canvas 130X100cm
Michael Pybus, Ariel RIOT 2015 Oil on Canvas 130 x 95cm
Michael Pybus - Hubcap Smiley - Evelyn Yard - Installation Shot
Michael Pybus - Hubcap Smiley - Evelyn Yard - Installation Shot