Harry Pye

Who is Harry Pye?

Harry Pye is an artist, writer and event organiser. In March 2007 Jessica Lack of The Guardian described him as, "the master of lo fi British art". Harry William Pye was born in London in 1973. He completed a foundation course at Camberwell School of Art in 1991. He then studied printmaking at Winchester School of Art from 1992 to 1995. In his second year he stopped painting and printmaking and began making films. His first films were interviews with artist and tutor Bruce McLean. He has interviewed many other artists such as Humphrey Ocean, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Wolfgang Tillmans and Keith Tyson for various publications including The Face Turps Banana and Untitled. He has also edited and published numerous art based fanzines of his own, most notably, "Harry Pye's FRANK Magazine" which ran from 1995 to 2000. Since 2005 Pye has written a column about the London art scene for the timeless Estonian newspaper, Epifanio as well as being the editor of The Rebel magazine.