The Gorillaz Art Book Podcast

From Renoir to Marvel, Grandmas and Heavy Metal, in this episode Kate talks to Vanessa about her process and her influences. They discuss why Vanessa resonates with Noodle and delve into what lies in the shadows of her gritty, noir sequential artwork. 

“New but old, familiar and alien, foreign but personal” is how Jared Cody Wolf describes the feel of his work. The artist whose seven-page spread follows Hewlett’s own work. Jared tells of his highly sensory process and his desires to move to a South American fishing village. 

Picasso said “Good artists borrow but great artists steal”. Here, Ruff Mercy enlightens Kate on how his life-long love for hip-hop impacted his approach to sampling other artists’ work. They talk about music as the greatest inspiration, the risks of imitation and how he came to create his unique marriage of drawing with live footage

Kate talks with Holly Warburton about her depiction of Cyborg Noodle’s epic journey from the depths of an underwater world to the surface. Holly talks of the role of animation in her illustrations and the art of painting digitally. 

The Gorillaz Art Book Podcast hosted by Art curator Kate Bryan celebrates the new Gorillaz Art Book, going behind the scenes with some of the artists featured. As well as never before seen work by Gorillaz co-founder Jamie Hewlett, the book brings together a global lineup of artists who have all created their own interpretations of the iconic Gorillaz band members. She’ll be talking to a few of the artists that have contributed work to this illustrious new book, as well as a rare in-depth interview with Hewlett himself.