ben edge folkore creeper
THE FOLKLORE CREEPER.

Underground collaborates with Ben Edge a predominately figurative artist interested in folklore and storytelling, whose paintings and film work depict the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.

Underground regards Folklore as an intrinsic part of subculture and the collaboration is the opportunity to help demonstrate that. Working together with Ben we have created some unique pieces.

We asked Ben to talk us through his motivation for the collaboration.

“As a teenager working in Carnaby Street I used to sell Underground Creeper shoes in a Mod shop that I used to work in, On my lunch breaks I would sit on the steps of Blake House where the original child hood home of William Blake once stood, where he had his first vision of God at the age of four, and now twenty years on I am still an avid wearer of creepers, I visited the grave of William Blake and uploaded a photo of myself on Instagram standing at his graveside in a pair of Underground creepers, little did I now that Underground would see the photo and approach me as they were interested in creating a folklore inspired creeper. This was a full circle moment, having spent the last decade documenting and painting the Folkloric traditions of Britain, whilst wearing a pair of creepers throughout, you could say that this collaboration was a moment of serendipity, and a dream come true.

Throughout my teen years and twenties I played in punk bands, and then transitioned into a full time artist at the age of thirty, and it was around that time that I stumbled on a Druid ceremony taking place on Tower Hill, In which I noticed a line of figures with white hooded cloaks walking in procession in the distance, an experience that became the spring board for a life changing journey across Britain and where I found myself and my voice as an artist, and became fixated on the living breathing folk culture that is thriving in the UK today, and just like with the creeper shoe Itself, that started out as a military shoe for sandy conditions that later got picked up by the Teddy Boys, then the Punks, and now by me, the Creeper is a living breathing folkloric piece of UK culture that is constantly changing, evolving and mongrelising itself with the creativity of new generations and ideas, so what could be more ideal than the coming together of British Folklore and this iconic shoe steeped in its own unique folklore and mythology.

So here I present to you the FOLKLORE CREEPER ”
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ORIGINAL CREEPER – SINGLE SOLE – WULFRUN – FOLKLORE CREEPER– CHALK HORSE

£250.00

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ORIGINAL CREEPER – SINGLE SOLE – WULFRUN – FOLKLORE CREEPER– ACTIVIST

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