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  • Twenty Six Portraits

    Julian Opie

     

    Hirofumi is the owner of a Tokyo-based fashion company. He asked if I would collaborate with his company to design some clothes. A group of designers from the firm...

  • China Post Interview

    Julian Opie

     

    I have around 35 artworks going, which are effectively focusing on the human figure. There are a few relating to landscapes, but most are centred on the human face...

  • Preface for Julian Opie Catalogue

    Sandy Nairne
    Essential Portraits
     

    What is the essence of a portrait? What is the absolute minimum by which a person can be represented? What are the...

  • Guardian Q&A

    Julian Opie

     

    HERE ARE MY ANSWERS.

    I do wonder about these "light" interviews. I have done a few and I'm not sure what purpose they serve." What is your...

  • Indianapolis Exhibition Text

    Julian Opie
    SIGNS, 2006

    In 2000 I was commissioned to make a work for a Munich based insurance company. I used a local company to produce two large glass wall panels back painted with...

  • This is Shahnoza

    Julian Opie

     

    I had arranged to meet Clare in a pub on Cambridge Circus. She turned up looking very glamorous in a shimmering black evening dress. We drank gin and tonics and I...

  • Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier III

    Impersonality and emotion in Julian Opie's People and Portraits
    Julie Labay

     

    Julian Opie's People and Portraits series ambivalently reconcile the...

  • This is Kiera

    Thomas Trummer
    GALERIE KROBATH WIMMER

     

    In the show, the model steps on to the catwalk to present herself in alluring poses in filmic movement, interrupted only by postures...

  • Tate Book

    Excerpts from Julian Opie (J.O.)
    Tate Gallery publication, 2004
    Text by Mary Horlock,
    Available Tate Publishing
    www.tate.org.uk/publishing
    ISBN 1-85437-470-2

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  • Graphics International

    Line art.

     

    Julian Opie finds more inspiration at HMV than in any art gallery - his artworks regularly appear as book jackets and CD covers. Angharad Lewis went to meet this...