ABOUT
Richard “French” Sayer is an Artist, Illustrator & Art Director.
Creating artwork, illustration, graphics, design & art direction for the Music industry, Advertising, Print, Fashion, Publishing and the Skateboard industry.
French exhibits continuously world wide in both group and solo exhibitions. Recently art directing a number of projects, brands and curating exhibitions.
Advertising:
- DDH Advertising
- Fingal Advertising
- M&C Saatchi
- AMV BBDO Advertising
- Wieden & Kennedy
Brands:
- Olympus Cameras
- Casio G-shock
- Scion
- Wannadoo Broadband
- The BBC
- ITV
Publishing / Print / Media:
- Turner Publishing (Adult Swim)
- The Guardian
- Dazed and Confused
- Laurence King Publishing
- Nylon Magazine
- Plan B Magazine
- Clark Magazine
- Tank Magazine
- Front Magazine
- Sidewalk Magazine
- Kingpin Magazine
Music / Record Labels:
- Bavarian Opera
- Ghostly Records
- Relapse Records
- Season of Mist Records
- Modular People Records
- Century Media Records
- Virgin Music
- Forest Records
- Crematorium Records
- Southern Records
- Blackest Rainbow Underground Records
Apparel:
- MAAP
- Aries
- Lazy Oaf
- …LOST
- Thrills
- Cotton On
- Silas
- Uniqlo
- Mishka
- Sixpack
- Carhartt
- Death Rites
- Volcom
- Paul Smith (New Bold)
- Beams
- Altamont Clothing
- 2k By Gingham
- Kr3w Denim
- Suburban Bliss
Footwear Brands:
- Vans Footwear
- Nike
- Adidas Originals
- Emerica Footwear
- Pointer Shoes
- Fallen Footwear
- Adio Footwear
Skateboarding:
- Bloodwizard
- Black Label
- Passport
- Santa Cruz
- Creature
- Cliché
- Real
- Jivaro Wheels
- Independent Truck Company
- Zero
- ELEMENT
- Antiz
- Heroin
- Foundation
- Witchcraft
He also runs & curates 101 a small gallery and creative space aiming
to support, promote and showcase emerging & established
artists from all over the world.
Person behind DUNGEON & “Witchcraft Hardware”
Art Director at Death Rites
Solo Exhibitions:
“Out Tö Lunch’ – New Image Art Gallery, West Hollywood, USA – December 2017
“Heatseeker” – Beach London Gallery, London, UK – September 2017
“Technical Ecstasy” – Ludlow Gallery, Orange, NSW, Australia – March 2017
“Fatal If Swallowed” – Beyond Gallery, Perth, Australia – November 2016
“Brainwave” – Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne, Australia – August 2016
“Knightmare” – China Heights Gallery, Sydney, Australia – April 2016
“French x Kr3w” – Empire Gallery, Long Beach, California, USA – January 2015
“Black Veil” – Mild Manners, True East, Melbourne, Australia – March 2014
“Means To An End” – China Heights Gallery, Sydney, Australia -February 2014
“Tokyo Art Book Fair” – Galeria De Muerte, Tokyo, Japan – October 2013
“VERITA VLTIMA VITAE” – Scion Installation, Los Angeles, USA – September 2012
“Let Us Prey” – Beach London Gallery, London, UK- May 2012
“French” – Ninelives Gallery, Brisbane Australia – January 2012 (print exhibition)
“Oath Of Armageddon” – Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne, Australia – January 2012
“At First Light” – Ninelives Gallery, Brisbane, Australia – August 2010 (joint show with Murdoch Stafford)
“Isolated Magic” – Chapter One Gallery, London – December 2009
“Blood Oath” – Archipeligo Gallery, Sheffield – October 2009
“The Initiation” – Cerasoli Gallery, LA, USA – September 2009 (joint show with Derek Albeck)
“Cursed Scrolls”- Mishka, Brooklyn, USA – July 2009
“Slaughter” – Metal Destroys W+K” – Wieden and Kennedy, Amsterdam, Netherlands – July 2009
“Humour of Initiation” – Vans / 5050 Gallery, Bristol – April 2009
“Made of Rats” – Force of Nature Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark – Feb 2009
“Funeral Fog” – Monster Children Gallery, Australia – December 2008
“Hand of Glory” – Nine Lives Gallery, Brisbane, Australia – November 2008
“Lord of Light” – Don’t Come Gallery, Melborne, Australia, – November 2008
“Desolate Delights” – Derek Albeck and French, Berdhouse Gallery, LA, USA – May 2008 (Joint Exhibition)
“High Priestess of the Woods” – Analogue, Edinburgh – January 2008
“French” – Projekts Gallery, Manchester – May 2007
“Funerality” – Monster Children Gallery, Sydney Australia – May 2007
“Conventional Weapons” – KCDC, Brooklyn, New York – February 2007 (Joint Exhibition with Fos)
Group Exhibitions:
“King Brown” – Form Gallery, Perth, Australia – March 2015
“Welcome to Black Canyon” – Conduit Arts, Melbourne, Australia – September 2014
“Scissors & Paper” – House of Van, London, UK – July 2014
“GSB 5 Years” – Steinslandberliner Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden – November 2013
“Diversions” – Giant Robot Gallery, Los Angeles, USA – March 2012
“Looking Sideways” – Vans Wangl Tangl Exhibition, Switzerland – March 2012
“Rolling Back the Years” – Huck Magazine, London – January 2012
“All the Colours of the Dark” – Awful Nice Gallery, St Louis, USA – March 2011
“Close to a World Below” – The Scion Gallery, Los Angeles, USA – October 2010 (Curator)
“Disorder Disorder” – The Penrith Regional Gallery, Australia – August 2010
“Skull Duggery” – Pure Evil Gallery, London, UK – March 2010
“Scion Installation 6” -Touring Exhibition, LA, Austin, Witchita, Minneapolis, Brooklyn – Jan 2010 – August 2010
“Metal” – Giant Robot Gallery. New York, – November 2009
“Scion Installation 5” – Touring Exhibition, Detroit, MI, Miami, FL, Phoenix, AZ, Minneapolis, MN, New York, NY, San Jose, CA, Philadelphia, PA, Portland, OR, Los Angeles, CA, USA – December 2008 – August 2009
“Take to the Woods” – Analogue, Edinburgh – December 2007
“We’re Rollin, They’re Hatin” – Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, USA – October 2007
“To the Masses” – Scion Installation, Los Angeles USA – August 2007
“Cherryvale Skateboards” – London – July 2007
“Sixteen X Twelve” – Monsterchildren Gallery, Sydney, Australia – November 2006
“A Thousand Things” – MU Gallery, Eindhoven, – July 2006
“The Rest Is Total Silence” – ATM Gallery, New York – July 2006
“Everyone knows this is Nowhere” – Galleri Loyal, Stockholm,– May 2005
“The Banjo Show” – 88B Gallery, London – April 2005
“Moving Units” – Kingsland Rd, London – August 2004
“Window Show” – Wren Gallery, Sydney, Australia – October – November 2003
“Sneaker Pimps”– Sydney, Tokyo, Berlin, L.A – November 2003 – September 2004
“Artist In Residence Commission” – Kinross Wolaroi School, Sydney, Australia – September 2003
“Exhibition 101” – Sydney, Australia – May 2003
“Skate Art” – Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe – June 2003
“A Surface In Between” – Arthouse, Hoxton, London – May 2003
“Side Effects of Urethane” – Jam Factory, London – November 2001
Education
BA Hons Fine Art, Staffordshire University, 2002