Sara Walking - Sparkly Top and Jeans

Artist Julian Opie (London, England, born 1958)

Date2003

Mediumcontinuous computer animation on 40” LCD screen

ClassificationsTime-Based Media

Dimensions94.9 x 60.4 x 20cm
Image Size: 87 x 52cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 2004 with assistance from the National Collecting Scheme for Scotland, the National Fund for Acquisitions and the National Art Collections Fund.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG014303

Keywords

About MeJulian Opie is an established artist with an international reputation. His work is known to a wide audience through his portraits of the rock band Blur. Opie's influences range from billboard signs to cartoons and his schematic figure drawings generally reduce people to types.

His new body of work employs a variety of media and technologies. Continuing to explore the figure, he has used computer technology and multiple drawings to create this hypnotic, constantly moving image locked into a plasma screen display. The figure of Sara, a professional model, is simplified to a pictogram and presented as a looped animation which represents her walking, endlessly and forever walking.

For more information on how this work was acquired see http://www.ncsscotland.org.uk/collections

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