KEV Munday is a 28-year-old professional artist based in Basingstoke.
He has exhibited his art all over the world, producing for brands including Walt Disney, Graham & Brown and Monster Energy and has appeared in press such as Elle Decor, The Evening Standard, Design Milk and The Independent.
Last year, he hosted his first London solo exhibition.
Kev has also been involved in setting up and running the Concrete Sketchbook Art Gallery in Festival Place (previously called All Our Own Work) where he showcases his work alongside other local, national and international artists.
The gallery has been running for just under a year and moves into a different unit in the centre every couple of months with a different exhibition.
Brought up in Old Basing, he attended The Costello School, in Crossborough Hill, and Queen Mary’s College, in Cliddesden Road.
Kev works out of a studio at Proteus Creation Space, in Basingstoke, and currently lives in Chineham.
1. Who was your childhood hero and why? Jim Flora, an artist who was big in album cover art in the 1940s/50s. I’ve been trying to create something as good as him ever since I saw his work at college.
2. What is your most precious possession and why is it important to you? My studio, I would be lost without it.
3. What was the first record/ CD you bought? Tubthumping by Chumbawamba.
4. What is the radio/television show you hate to miss? I’m not too fussed about radio or TV. I watch some comedy but that’s about it.
5. What is your favourite film? Monsters Inc.
6. What is your pet hate? BMW drivers.
7. What are you reading at the moment? The Bin Diaries by Slam Daniels.
8. If you were choosing a last meal, what would it be? Pizza.
9. If you could meet anyone from history, who would it be? Keith Haring – my favourite artist.
10. If you had a time machine where would it take you? North America in the 19th century, go and carve some totem poles with the Haida people.
11. If you were stranded on a desert island what luxury would you choose to have with you? A crate of spray paint, it would be the most colourful island in the world by the time they found me.
12. What sports team do you support? None.
13. What was your first job? A paper round, every day before school.
14. If you could take over someone’s job for the day, whose job would you choose? My old paper round – riding a bike is the only thing I enjoy doing more than my job.
15. What worries you the most? The general public.
16. What is your proudest moment? The day I quit my real job to paint for a living, almost five years ago.
17. What would you like your epitaph to be? It would have to be visual. I want to paint my coffin and tombstone.
18. What’s your guilty pleasure? Gangsta rap.
19. What one thing could change society for the better? People thinking for themselves.
20. What three words best describe you? Creative, ambitious, introverted.
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