Julian Opie

Julian Opie is a visual artist, and part of the new British Sculpture Movement. He works a lot in sculpture but what I'm interested to look at is his portraits.

Opie' creates a graphic portrait style using some sort of computer software. Because of this, he moves between the fields of contemporary art and commercial design. These portraits caught my attention because it was similar to what I've been trying to portray in my drawing project. The drawings are cold and detached. There is no emotion, just blank faces all made to look the same.

Although his portraits and not similar to mine in a formal way, the tone of his work is what I want my work to be. I want to create portraits which are completely detached of human emotion, something I feel would be fairly difficult to do, as human faces are full of emotion.

Graham Coxon

C-type colour print on paper laid on panel, 2000
34 1/8 in. x 29 7/8 in. (868 mm x 758 mm)