Alan Fears is a British artist who was shortlisted in both 2018 and 2020 for the John Moores Painting Prize, a biennial award for the best contemporary painting. His work was featured on the cover of the 2019 summer issue of the literary and art magazine The Paris Review and the cover for the band Two Door Cinema Club’s 2022 album ‘Keep on Smiling’.

‘A naive artist, a graphic artist, a pop artist.…I am a slice of each. My style is simple and direct. The theme in most of my art revolves around reminding myself, and everybody else, how great and stupid humans can be and therefore how great and stupid life can be.’