Mr Doodle
Covered a whole house, inside and out, in black-and-white doodles, and then wrote about what it cost him.
Mr Doodle is Sam Cox, born in Kent in 1994, who developed at school a compulsive all-over drawing style — dense, cartoonish, interlocking figures and objects in black line on white — and turned it into a career while still at university in Kent. Videos of him filling rooms, shopfronts and eventually an entire Tenterden house over two years brought an enormous online following and a market that ran hottest in Asia. In 2020 he experienced a severe psychotic episode and was sectioned; he and his wife have since spoken publicly about it, and the episode is now part of how the work is read.
This market moved very fast in 2020 and 2021 and has been volatile since, which makes date of acquisition and documentation more than usually relevant. The output divides into unique acrylic-and-marker works on canvas, editions of prints and sculpture, and a large volume of collaborative product and merchandise, and the last of these is often mistaken for the second. Certificates and original packaging matter. The drawings are made in permanent marker on primed grounds, and the black lines are vulnerable to abrasion and to light-driven shift over time.
If you own a work by Mr Doodle
Send photographs and whatever paperwork came with it. The first question is what the work actually is — edition or unique, when, and in what condition — because everything else follows from the answer. A valuation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
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