Julian Opie
| Born in 1958, Julian Opie emerged as an influential figure in British Art of the 1980s after creating a series of painted metal sculptures. He is known to engage with new technologies to expand his art style and is known to work with one idea across many forms of media from print, canvas, metal and vinyl. Opie works with photography and then digital alteration to create art made up of basic black outlines and simplified areas of colour. His graphic portraits and computer aided design work has enabled him to easily transition between the worlds of contemporary art and commercial art, having produced an album cover in 2000 for the pop band Blur and an LED projection for U2’s Vertigo tour in 2006. Many of his works are displayed in the National Portrait Gallery, The Tate and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. |