Funky Red Dog was trained at Epsom Art College in the early 1990's then studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London, where he specialized in Printmaking & Photomedia, and began to screenprint onto advertising boards from the  London Underground, and replace them on his travels on the Northern line.

In the late 1990's he painted backdrops & murals in the nightclubs and bars of London and "decorated" the telephone boxes of Soho with hoax call-girl cards, stickers, screenprinted subverted adverts and fly posters. He went on to Co-found the Phood Gallery in 2000, in a condemned building on the Camberwell road.