Following a sell out solo show in 2014, Roy’s People is back this spring with a new body of work ‘Little Heroes’.

Little Heroes is packed with Roy’s People whimsical humour, with couples sheltering under bottle caps and figures attempting to rescue a friend in Killer Heels. Typical to Roy’s People work, the new work features romance, chivalry and super heroes.

We are Heroes features some of the best known superheroes, Superman, Batman, Thor, The Hulk, Spiderman and Catwoman; each figure appears as a shadow behind a miniature figure, signaling the sudden revelation of our inner hero.

Roy’s People firmly believes that “we are all heroes’ to some extent. The little people are a complete mix of young and old, and their shadows represent which superhero they are. “At some point in our lives we have all wanted to be superheroes or have a super power.”

Roy’s People will also release three new works from his signature Butterfly collection. Curious Duke Gallery will be taken over by little people this April as superhero shadows are cast over East London.

Refraction of identity carries over into Roy’s People’s social media collection. Featuring recognisable logos from social media networks, Little People serve as vigilantes to shoot down the little blue bird of Twitter and ‘f’ of Facebook. The growing number of social media related suicides have grown drastically with the rise of the ‘cyber bullies’, something that Roy’s People recognises as a problem of modern time.

Roy’s People explains this shift in interest in his practice, “Instagram, Facebook and Twitter basically rule our lives, on it everyday, these works are about taking them down and not having our lives ruled by a little blue bird. This series of work gives us back the power we can so easily feel that we have lost.”