Jon Burgerman is a young artist who studied fine art at Nottingham Trent University. He starting off his work against all the big-money corporations and mocking them in his work, but he later went on to work for all those companies he had mocked.
He started his career by drawing the CD cover for a friend, which gave him enough recognition to be approached by other companies who found him through his website. He has since done work for Sony, Pepsi, and created his own app for the iPhone.
After this he wanted to concentrate more on his own work rather than commercial jobs, so he started working with other artists and doing exhibitions all over the world. I found it interesting that for most exhibitions he said that he goes to the gallery a week before opening with no work, and creates it all on the walls and in canvases in the gallery.
A few more things I learnt from the talk with Jon Burgerman:
His favorite colour is yellow.
Creating a website is the best promotion you can do, get a website.
Enjoy what you do.
He is critical of his own work, so don't dwell on it when you first do it, reflect on it a few months or a year later so you can say 'it's not that bad actually'.
He got most famous for drawing on walls, so has now marketed his own wallpaper that you can colour in.
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ReplyDeleteThis is much better now you have added the research images of the guest speakers we have had at the college as it fits with the assignment paper criteria.
Also you could add some video work that is on youtube and embed this into your site. Also there is a video of the talk that he gave that could also be added into you work.
Steve