Mr. Doodle

British born 1994

Mr. Doodle is a British street artist known for his busy, light-hearted doodles that spread across walls, rooms, and even his own custom-doodled attire. Fast emerging on the international art market, Mr. Doodle collaborates with well-known brands including Fendi, Converse, Puma, Samsung, and MTV.

Sam Cox, known by his pseudonym Mr. Doodle, was born in Kent in 1994. From a young age he developed a passion for drawing, doodling all over schoolbooks, bedroom walls, furniture, and, later, the walls of local restaurants and schools. The artist has developed these childhood scribbles into a signature art form.

Cox completed a BA in Illustration at the University of West England in Bristol in 2015. It was at Bristol that Cox's persona as Mr. Doodle fully emerged. In 2014 the artist started coming to classes dressed in hand-doodled attire, earning him the nickname that has become his artworld moniker.

Mr. Doodle's art is characterised by a tightly packed and visually overwhelming arrangements of letters, forms, symbols, and recurring characters, drawn with thick black lines on white backgrounds. The artist describes these improvised compositions, which can be spread across canvases, objects, walls, and even whole rooms, as 'a growing drawing virus'.

In 2016 Mr. Doodle's first major solo exhibition 'Attention Seeker' saw London's Hoxton Gallery covered in a continuous doodle mural. Drawing influence from everyday phenomena such as cartoons, cereal boxes, and video games, as well as a retinue of imagined characters from Doodleland, the artist decorated walls, columns and the floor of the gallery with dense imagery. He also drew over a grand dining set with accompanying tableware and a floral centre piece.

Mr. Doodle has referred to his style, which packs overwhelming visual stimuli into infinite compositions, as "Graffiti Spaghetti". The simple imagery itself has broad appeal, with the artist stating: "My intention has always been to create a universal doodle language that can relate to and attract people from all over the world."