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Edek Thompson

West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Edek is a community artist, who paints the apocalypse one dog, pigeon or crow at a time. Creating fun and disturbing images of a future ravaged by climate change, he imagines a world full of mutations and strange adaptations, where duck feet will aid survival in a new lifetime underwater. His work is a future mythology, a way to remember and document the things around us for when they are no longer there.

Sustainability and accessibility are key factors in Edek’s work and inform his material choices. He uses found and donated materials, household emulsions rescued from landfill, boards from building sites and vinyl from sign shop bins, along with the stuff people usually have lying around at home like pens, pencils and crayons. Using these materials and working from reference photos that he has taken himself, Edek hopes his creations can help to spread a little joy and optimism at the end of the world.  

Edek’s work started as a way of working through his own anxieties around climate change, but soon developed into a deeper exploration of his own mental health and wellbeing, an acknowledgement of isolation due to chronic pain, a meditation on grief and loss, and a question of how we can engage with, build, and maintain supportive, nurturing communities. 

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Artwork

  1. Am Balloon

    Edek Thompson

    Am Balloon

    £50

  2. Behind This Mask I Remember Which Walls to Walk On

    Edek Thompson

    Behind This Mask I Remember Which Walls to Walk On

    £250

  3. Community Or Destruction

    Edek Thompson

    Community Or Destruction

    £3,500

  4. Flame Lord Icon for a World on Fire

    Edek Thompson

    Flame Lord Icon for a World on Fire

    £60

  5. Mighty Horse

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse

    £50

  6. Mighty Horse

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse

    £50

  7. Mighty Horse

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse

    £50

  8. Mighty Horse

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse

    £50

  9. Mighty Horse

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse

    £50

  10. Mighty Horse

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse

    £50

  11. Mighty Horse A Shared Smile

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse A Shared Smile

    £50

  12. Mighty Horse Am Exotic

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Am Exotic

    £40

  13. Mighty Horse Biff

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Biff

    £40

  14. Mighty Horse Bref

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Bref

    £50

  15. Mighty Horse Crud

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Crud

    £50

  16. Mighty Horse Duck Life

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Duck Life

    £50

  17. Mighty Horse Fire Horse

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Fire Horse

    £60

  18. Mighty Horse Fire Horse

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Fire Horse

    £50

  19. Mighty Horse Flame Back

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Flame Back

    £50

  20. Mighty Horse Flame Lord

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Flame Lord

    £50

  21. Mighty Horse Flame Lord

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Flame Lord
    Sold

    £50

  22. Mighty Horse Flame Lord

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Flame Lord

    £50

  23. Mighty Horse Fren?

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Fren?

    £50

  24. Mighty Horse Lovely Rage

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Lovely Rage

    £50

  25. Mighty Horse Mid Rage

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Mid Rage

    £50

  26. Mighty Horse Mourning

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Mourning

    £50

  27. Mighty Horse Oh No

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Oh No

    £40

  28. Mighty Horse Oof Delicet

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Oof Delicet

    £50

  29. Mighty Horse Rainy Blues

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Rainy Blues

    £50

  30. Mighty Horse Screems

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Screems

    £50

  31. Mighty Horse Skids

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Skids

    £50

  32. Mighty Horse Smol Strongth

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Smol Strongth

    £50

  33. Mighty Horse Smoof

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Smoof

    £50

  34. Mighty Horse Splish Splash

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Splish Splash

    £50

  35. Mighty Horse Sprog

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Sprog

    £50

  36. Mighty Horse Standard Rage

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Standard Rage

    £50

  37. Mighty Horse Strongth

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Strongth

    £50

  38. Mighty Horse Wind Horse

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Wind Horse

    £50

  39. Mighty Horse Yellow Arms

    Edek Thompson

    Mighty Horse Yellow Arms

    £50

  40. Preparations For a Lifetime Underwater

    Edek Thompson

    Preparations For a Lifetime Underwater

    £995

  41. Sometimes I Imagine We Only Had One Planet That We All Had to Share and I Do a Little LOL

    Edek Thompson

    Sometimes I Imagine We Only Had One Planet That We All Had to Share and I Do a Little LOL

    £995

  42. Strongth Box 2

    Edek Thompson

    Strongth Box 2

    £195

  43. The Icon for the Liturgy of the Descent from Peak Humanity

    Edek Thompson

    The Icon for the Liturgy of the Descent from Peak Humanity

    £60

  44. The Icon of Screems

    Edek Thompson

    The Icon of Screems

    £50

  45. The Icon of Small Victimless Crimes

    Edek Thompson

    The Icon of Small Victimless Crimes

    £60

  46. The Icon of Smiling at Strangers

    Edek Thompson

    The Icon of Smiling at Strangers

    £50

  47. The Icon of the Dark

    Edek Thompson

    The Icon of the Dark

    £50

  48. The Well-Intentioned Empty Words After Death

    Edek Thompson

    The Well-Intentioned Empty Words After Death

    £2,500

  49. Which Line at the Foodbank at the End of the World?

    Edek Thompson

    Which Line at the Foodbank at the End of the World?

    £995

  50. Woof. Tblisi Street Floof

    Edek Thompson

    Woof. Tblisi Street Floof

    £60