Dotmasters

Even though Leon has used a name or two over the last ten years, somehow he has always been know as C6. He has been spitting works, pranks and events out at the public for the last 11 years under several names such as C6, the Media Whores, and more recently as The Dotmasters.

The obsession with stencils started in 1997 with the "State of the nation" a street gallery in downtown Minneapolis, a series of works shown both in the gallery and on the street discovered with the aid of a free map. During the next few years writing C6, he created a stir in Shoreditch and Soho with the "New Media New Arse" campaigns, stencils targeting the growing territories of Internet powered hype, which drew comment from The BBC and featured in Tristan Manco's first book "Stencil Art".

Since those first Cultural bombing missions his work has been focused on site specific stencils such as "on the fly" where tube trains were covered in stencil flies as it crawled along the central line in 2004. In recent times as The Dotmasters, half toned masterpieces are stencilled on the fronts of galleries world wide, poking fun at the sensibilities of the art world and the notions of vandalism. Impromptu galleries have popped up in borrowed or squatted venues that have seen a mix of spray paint, music, technology and lots of free ephemera & of course intoxicants.

His work is always produced with an irreverent disregard for medium and wish for mischievous confrontation.

“There is no right place for art. It’s often more valid in your street than it is in a white cube. There is NO subculture ONLY subversion.”