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Jody has a way of combining words and images that is unique. He puts together classical drawing skills with wit and a crazy wisdom. His ideas and images are like tattoos for the mind - once you've seen them, you don't forget them. A constant innovator in materials and typographic presentation, Jody is always working on new ideas and approaches to his artwork. Lately he has done a crazy animated Hip-Hop video about Owls, the cover for the 'Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix' album for band Phoenix, a signature shoe, a shopfront covered in mirrored smoke, backdrops and cartoon T-shirts for band Turboweekend, a zine for Apartamento magazine about orange juice, a book of 700 of his own drawings right back to 2001 for Swiss publisher Nieves, illustrations for the New York Times, designs for his own fashion label in Japan - 'Black Humours', watercolours of C3P0 and R2D2 for an official Star Wars art show in Tokyo, pro-democracy posters for a Copenhagen organisation, an animated pop video with thousands of dancing stick figures for band Pollyn, T-shirts for Stussy USA and developed a new approach to making hand-made typography using jewel-like, flowing watercolour. He also finds time to adjust and needlessly clean and polish his racing bicycles, look fruitlessly for extra large size hats and fantasise about living in the English countryside again.
Selected Shows
Outpost Street Art Show, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia, 2011
Art Park Friends, Byron Bay, Australia, 2011
I Feel Orange, Rebel Dining Rooms, London, 2011
Terrain dur Bike Polo, Rouen, France, 2011
100 Euro Show, Weiden & Kennedy, Amsterdam, 2011
Eye Tunes, KOP, Netherlands, 2011
Black Masters Book Launch, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
Eugene et Pauline, Paris, France, 2010
Anti Design Festival, London, 2010
Motto Bookfair, Berlin, Germany, 2010
X-Felt - Democracy Show, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
Track Bike Shop, Wall Paintings, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
Wunderbaum Skateboard Art Show, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
The Urn Show, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
Smoke & Mirrors, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
Zine Soup, Book Launch, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
Danish Design Week, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
Hummel Wall, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
Trailer Park Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
Zine Age Riot, Byron Bay, Australia, 2009
Print Club - Secret Blisters, London, 2009
Sweet Talks, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009
Word Head Solo Show, Force of Nature Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009
We Stride Worldwide, Concrete Hermit, London, 2009
Ship of Fools Show, Netherlands, 2009
Eco Labs Climate Change Roadshow, UK, 2009
60 Years of Human Rights Declaration Show, London, 2009
Pictures on Walls, Christmas Market Show, London, 2008
Sea Surfboards XMASEA Show, Byron Bay, Australia, 2008
Concrete Hermit Gallery Group Show, London, 2008
Teen Shalt Not Kill Teen, London, 2008
Joyful Bewilderment, Rough Trade East, London, 2008
Asthma Attack, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, UK, 2008
Nieves Library at Centre Culturel Suisse, Switzerland, 2008
May 68 Poster Project, Los Angeles, USA, 2008
Here and Now Show, Jaguar Shoes, London, 2008
Outpost Gallery, Members Show, Norwich, UK, 2008
Happy Wheels 2008, Rouen, France, 2008
Whitechapel Gallery - Cape Farewell Group Show, London, 2007
If You Could, Exposure Gallery, London, 2007
La Foret - Beck Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2007
Santa's Ghetto, Group Show and Shop, London, 2006
Soma Gallery - Group Show, Soma Gallery, Bristol, 2006
Embryo Boy - Book Launch, Cide Skate Gallery, London, 2006
Clash Of The Titans, Group Show, Hedquarters, Brighton,2006
Zarjaz! 2000AD Magazine Artwork Show, Seven Dials, London,2006
Matsuri's Live Arts Festival V, Group Show, 93 Feet East, London, 2005
Graffiti Meets Windows Live Painting by video link-up, Osaka, Japan, 2005
Beetroot Travelling Disco Live Painting, England, 2005
'Gas Shop', Group Show, Tokyo, 2004
The V-Show, Group Show, St. Luke's Agency, London, 2004
Customised Record Covers, Group Show, Tokyo, Japan, 2004
Save Or Delete Greenpeace, Group Show, London, 2004
Cide Skate Shop, Solo Show, Waterloo, London, 2003
