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Scottish born Colbert, who has worked across
music, fashion and design, says his large-scale oil paintings
interweave art history references with Internet and social media
images, such as emojis and like buttons, in bright cartoon-like
collages featuring his lobster alter-ego.
"People are consuming art a lot through phones and the computer
so I like the idea that those elements are reflected in my
paintings," he said at his at his studio in London, where his
latest show is running at the Saatchi Gallery.
His preoccupation with digital media has led Colbert to create a
virtual reality world to explore the boundaries of art.
"It's a language you can create and it can be free from the
realities that we, that exist in, in normal life and that's the
beauty of it, the potential freedom."
Colbert's work has won acclaim from the world of fashion and
music and has been shown in Japan and China, where the opening
of his exhibition drew 10,000 people.
"I had my image on skyscrapers, we took over every billboard in
every airport in China, we took over (Sina) Weibo, the homepage
of Weibo, my artwork and my head sort of popping up for one day,
which is insane."
(Reporting by Jayson Mansaray; Writing by Louise Heavens;
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