Gary Cartlidge is a digital artist associated with the crypto art movement known as TrashArt, working under the recurring persona The Janitor. Since discovering NFT platforms in 2018, he has produced self-aware digital art, building a body of work that entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Crypto Art.
Before turning to art, he had a background in extreme sports. As a teenager he applied to show work at Walsall Art Gallery in England and was rejected, a setback that led him to set art aside for a conventional job. He later returned to university to study Visual Communications, a hybrid graphic design and illustration degree, and in 2018 began making digital art for sale on the platform KnownOrigin. He has lived on the Isle of Man since relocating from the United Kingdom.
