A NEW exhibition will be opening at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery on Friday, June 25, presenting a new body of work by contemporary British artist, Julian Opie.

Opie has created new sculptures, LED animations, light box paintings and film that focus on people, buildings and animals.

The works create their own landscape, a walk-through environment like a computer game, or a journey through a city.

Some of the images are animated and others animate as visitors wander around or through them.

The exhibition features 14 works, including eight metal sculptures.

Opie, who is holding his first solo exhibition in a London public gallery in four years, is recognisable for his distinctive and refined drawing style, distilling the visual information for our everyday reality to a universal language of symbols and signs.

Like Sir John Soane, the architect and designer of Pitzhanger, Opie reflects a wide range of diverse influences and art historical references within his work.

The exhibition incorporates works outside, both in front of the Manor and in Walpole Park as well.

Julian Opie said: "Pitzhanger Gallery immediately struck me as a beautiful and unique space.

"The grand house faces a standard busy contemporary London high street and backs onto a large public park with a pond and long vista.

"I have tried to straddle these experiences and use all the possibilities provided.

"There will be buildings, people and animals to wander past, laid out as statues and paintings in a museum.

"It's the first time I have shown in London for a long while and I wanted to exhibit a varied group of works that makes a compact and coherent story but uses a full range of the things I have been working on in recent years."

Clare Gough, Director of Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, said: "Julian's striking and playful installations and graphic artworks at Pitzhanger brings a fresh perspective to Soane's architecture in dialogue with its surrounding parkland in Ealing.

"I am delighted that this exhibition, for the first time, includes installations outside Pitzhanger in the surrounding grounds of Walpole Park: we hope these engage and draw in new visitors."

The exhibition will run from June 25 until October 24.

Tickets cost £7, with Ealing residents receiving a concession price of £4.50.

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