Jasper Goodall

Goodall is primarily a graphic design born in 1973 in Birmingham, England. He works in a variety of ways and encompasses areas of music, fashion, publishing, editorial and advertising plus many more. His art style is fairly unique and perhaps was even at the forefront of the reinvention of illustration by mixing it with photography, which creates shiny precise quality in his work. However it has been mostly His iconic work for Face magazine that has made him more iconic over the years. His style of work questions the line between fantasy and reality which the combination of illustration and photography highlights.

The image above named ‘Birth of Erebus’ was originally made for the band muse, of which didn’t use it in the end but used it as an inspiration for their final album and single covers. Goodall talks about the work by saying that muse’s album at the time was about the stars and solar system, and he made the link between stars and greek gods, of which Erebus was the son of chaos. The piece above uses a lot of negative black space and coloured planets and shapes to signify the dark chaos and the centre figure being ghostlike to represent a mystical being like a god, and a horse to represent an elegance and power.

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Artist & Photographer

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