Conrad Hart is a UK-based artist, often dubbed “The Skullptor”, known for his skull sculptures that fuse subculture with fine art.
His work reimagines pop culture icons beyond their narrative loop — what happens when these tortured figures, trapped in endless cycles of conflict, are finally granted a brutal kind of closure.
With a gritty aesthetic and handcrafted finishes, Conrad creates post-pop relics that feel like trophies from another world — relics of the fallen, frozen in time.
“I’m a self-taught sculptor working from my studio in the UK. My main signature pieces begin in clay — shaped by hand, slowly refined, and built up with attention to form and surface. Once complete, I create matrix molds using silicone and fiberglass, a method that allows me to capture the fine detail of the sculpt while also producing robust, high-quality casts.
The final form is cast in resin, then hand finished using a combination of techniques: spray paint, airbrush, dry-brushing, washes, and weathering. I treat each stage with the same intent as the sculpt itself — to give the work a sense of age, story, and presence.
My influences come from pop culture, video games, comics, and mythology — but also from silence, decay, and the idea of memento mori. There’s a kind of irony in that, because the characters I sculpt never permanently die. They fight the same enemies, relive the same arcs, forever. My work offers them something else: an ending.
These sculptures are not celebrations of victory — they are trophies of defeat. Pop icons, skullified and still. Brutal closure in physical form.”