Still life, abstracts and ultra-violence from the brilliant Sam D'Orazio

Date
18 March 2013

Illustrator Sam D’Orazio is to gouache what Robert Crumb is to pen and ink; a surreal, perverse creator of strange landscapes populated by grotesque versions of ourselves, all swollen-bodied and mentally unhinged. His characters represent some of the darkest and most confusing aspects of our day-to-day lives, haphazardly coming to terms with the situations they find themselves in; sometimes with unpredictably violent results.

But that’s not all Sam’s capable of producing, he’s also got a classical streak running through his work. He’s honed his compositional skill producing a multitude of traditional still lifes and advocates the use of abstraction within commercial illustration – a rare breed in today’s largely figurative landscape. We love Sam’s work, both for its surreal insightfulness and the way he sums up his practice: “Each thing I make is like some kind of shitty curry, and I’ve made it with all of these spices thrown in, and sometimes the cap falls off on one of the shakers.”

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Sam D’Orazio: Personal Piece

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Sam D’Orazio: Drawing on paper

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Sam D’Orazio: Whatever

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Sam D’Orazio: Personal Piece

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Sam D’Orazio: Plansponsor Magazine

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Sam D’Orazio: Quiet Water Spiller

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Sam D’Orazio: Future self-portrait / Bonnie Prince Billy / Balding Adrian Brody

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Sam D’Orazio: Plansponsor Magazine

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Sam D’Orazio: Personal Piece

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Sam D’Orazio: Sketchbook

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About the Author

James Cartwright

James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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