Sohrab Crews was born in London in 1978, and completed a BA at Chelsea College of Arts in 2001. His painting, sculpture and drawing practice manifests the recurrent themes of order and control, structure, colour and expressive intensity, notably through his ongoing experimentation with a wide range of ideas, mediums and techniques. From 1997-2021 Crews resided in London; he currently lives in Bath. Crews has held nine solo exhibitions, including Fragments Aligned, Selected Works 2003-2025, Roseberry Road Studios, Bath, 2025, which included his new video projected work Four Letter Words Niagara, comprising of 100 individual animated four-letter-word columns.
In 2001 I began the ongoing series of Extra Life monochrome drawings. These partly planned, partly improvised compositions aim to find a certain originality and invention in combining drawing and words. Through the organic process of drawing I sequenced capitalised four letter words into columns each containing sixteen words, built around contemporary themes. These numerous themes, or big ideas include: apocalypse, art, autobiography, consumption, death, hype, and war. This resilient primeval rhinoceros, is like us, overloaded by content, consumed and infected by the absurdities normalised by our fractured age of speed and greed.
