Jamie Hewlett

British artist Jamie Hewlett is a prolific creative and polymath who defies easy categorisation and occupies a unique position in the cultural landscape. 

He first rose to prominence in the late 1980s with the anarchic first-of-its-kind comic strip Tank Girl, and is perhaps best known for co-creating the BRIT and Grammy-winning virtual band Gorillaz, an ever-evolving truly global phenomenon which has achieved international success in entirely new and unique ways. 

Hewlett’s career has seen him move effortlessly between the worlds of design, art and music, working at an unrelenting pace while constantly reinventing his artistic language, often capturing the zeitgeist with his pioneering, energetic work. 

This work has seen Hewlett reference and celebrate a variety of sources and inspiration, from hip hop to opera and zombie slasher movies to westerns, blending a multitude of global cultural influences in work which always adopts a punk-like sensibility. 

Hewlett was awarded the Jim Henson Creativity Honour in 2005 and Designer of the Year by London’s Design Museum in 2006.