Kid Acne is a multidisciplinary artist and emcee. He has maintained a dynamic career spanning almost 30 years, since emerging as a self-taught, prominent street artist as a teenager. He spent his formative years painting graffiti, self-publishing fanzines, and making experimental hip-hop—all of which are rooted in his working-class background in the East Midlands and continue to inform his current practice.

Through the visual arts medium, he creates paintings, illustrations, and screen-printed editions, characterized by bold typography and recurring motifs, often taking inspiration from traditional folklore and mythology. He also makes large-scale public art pieces, both self-directed and commissioned, blending fantasy tropes with contemporary socio-political commentary and rendered in a deceptively simple and inimitable style.

And he still has acne.