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ABOUT OLIVER CARTWRIGHT (b. 1984) is a British artist based in Seoul, Korea. He specialises in high concept hand drawn illustration using ballpoint pens. Oliver has been professionally designing since May 2009. Since then, he has lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan and currently works as lead artist, for a popular snowboarding company in the heart of Seoul. His artistic influences include Umberto Boccioni, Shinji Hashimoto (Animator), Delta (Boris Tellegen), Geof Darrow and Aaron Turner. Oliver's work is also influenced by the aesthetics of car design and architecture.
REPRESENTATION Jen DiSisto
REVIEWS "Oliver's work ethic and knowledge is one you rarely come by. He is easy to communicate with, understood my vision with little explanation needed, and added immense detail and depth to our project by using his creative talent. It has been an honor and pleasure to work with him and I am certain that he will be part of my future projects to come." Eduardo Burillo CEO/Chair, Burillo Azcarraga Group
"There are not many artists out there these days capable of creating such beautiful, elegant and unique visual art. Oliver is definitively one of them."
"Beyond Oliver’s strong work ethic and reverence for color he is armed with the unique ability to translate sounds to an image. This is definitely a trait that sets his work apart from others."
"Oliver has a refreshing, manically artful drawing style." Oliver Reichenstein, Information Architects
"He has a super unique style boasting robotic and machine like images with great detail and a rapid fire approach to everything he does. I found myself revisiting his work more and more and wondered how he was so productive with completely refined finished products in these short periods of time between his updates to me. No explanation aside from the man is truly on his grind, extremely talented, and contageously inspiring to say the least."
SELECTED CLIENTS AND PUBLICATIONS Burillo Azcarraga Group, Alqur Studios, LLC, Audi Japan, Warner Bros. Japan, Information Architects, Robert Miles, Kvelertak, Yak Ballz, Mental Architects, Robert Koch, Fat Jon, Zen Freeman, Thavius Beck, Glen Porter, Dday One, DJ Vadim, CYNE, Spirits Of The Dead, Colin Steele, Kawakami Kohei, Definitive Jux, Dazed & Confused, IdN, Haute Living, C-Heads, Costo, Reiss, Project Save Our Surf
EXHIBITIONS Dyaporama, Tokyo, Japan |