For A C Evans art is a way of exploring the subversive potential of the bizarre and the grotesque – yet he describes his work as essentially realistic. 'Poetry', he says 'is Radar'.
Influenced by the dark-side of Romanticism, Decadence and Aestheticism, AC relishes the iconoclasm of Dada, the 'absolute non-conformism' of Surrealism, the insights of Existentialism, and the immediacy of Pop. He sees all these as points of departure none as a destination – we live in a world of tabloid impressionism, open realism and amplified hyper-culture; the heroism of our modern life, our subtopian materialism.
Born near Hampton Court in 1949, A C Evans lived in South London until 1963 when he moved to Essex and co-founded the post-underground (Fourth Wave) Neo-Surrealist Convulsionist Group in 1966. He moved back to London in 1973. His drawings, collages, reviews, essays, translations, poetry and stories have appeared in numerous small press magazines in the UK and abroad, and he is or was a regular contributor to Nox, Stride, Monomyth, The Supplement, Midnight Street, Inclement, Neon Highway, X-Peri, International Times and many other publications.