Art Gallery

Creating a mix of public murals, prints and sculpture, Jerkface has garnered an international reputation among critics and collectors as a trailblazing figure in the art world.

Jerkface murals now adorn cities around the world, and he has exhibited paintings in Hong Kong, New York, and beyond.

Inspiration continued

It was this lyrical interlude, rather than the mayhem enveloping it, that caught the eye of Peter Doig when he saw the movie. “The film is not worth watching,” Doig tells me dismissively in his east London studio and living space. “But I was so surprised by that scene.

The image stayed with Doig, and it would become a key motif in his later work, most notably in “White Canoe” (199091), a technical tour de force of dramatic abstraction, and more explicitly still in “Canoe Lake” (1997-98), in which it is turned into a menacing tableau of acidic greens.