What's a Zero Gradient anyway???

Currently based out of Middlesbrough, England - Zero is an artist and noise maker with a passion for exploring and experimenting with art and its materials. Best known for his Graffiti/Street Art imagery, Zero's career has seen him grow from the streets of the UK to the walls of galleries and homes across the World.

Zero's work develops from an inner city, working class, salt of the earth upbringing in a place where the strong industrial heritages of the past were dying off and being replaced with posh flats and swanky wine bars. A place where people looked out for one another and gathered in pubs to purchase knock-off DVD’s and meat that had fell out the back of a lorry. It was a Britt Pop, lad culture, Binge drinking society apparently full of opportunities but only 4 channels to watch tele on.

``My work exploits practice and form to create work that is not predetermined by its outcome, but rather through the process in which it is created. Destruction, abstraction and re-imagining drives this process and, as a result, the finished work can be seen more as a product of its production then the piece itself. I don't believe that I create the work, rather that I assist with its own creation. A sound, a shape, a colour or a brush stroke — whether intentional or not — can dramatically alter the direction in which my work develops. It is this uncertainty, this chance encounter, that drives me and the work which I facilitate. Through this I aim to find the beauty within the discarded, draw attention to the unnoticed, and find creation though the destructed. I do not see any of my work as being pieces, but rather site specific installations, with every piece not truly being complete until it is in place, and it is from there — with the interaction it makes within its environment — that it becomes
complete.``