Ged Wells
Ged Wells is an artist, illustrator and one-time pro-skateboarder. He will be exhibiting a series of drawings and sculptures related to nomadic elephant folklore, alongside Badaude in the Port Eliot basement. He will also be creating a sculptural elephant swing at a location he has yet to reveal, somewhere within the festival grounds.
Ged first became well-known in the 1980s, while competing internationally in skateboarding, writing for skateboard magazine R.A.D and founding the Insane clothing brand, the before turning to art and illustration.
He has exhibited in London and Tokyo (exhibitions include Insane Birds, Bears of Paradise and Cats Lick Sinners) and recently produced work for the Skullduggerous show in aid of the Bhopal Medical appeal at the Pure Evil gallery in London. He designed the Idler magazine snail logo and one hundred of his illustrations can also be found in The Book of Idle Pleasures, published by Ebury Press in 2008.
