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Artist Exhibitions:
MAJOR ONE-MAN SHOWS
1986 - Matrix Gallery, London
1989 - Dentsu Ad Gallery,
Tokyo
1989 - Parco Gallery, Tokyo
1989 - Parco Gallery,
Kichijoji
1990 - Parco Gallery, Gifu +
Kumamoto
1990 - "Topsy Turvey Land"
Show, Gallery Maya, Tokyo
1991 - "Denizens" Show,
Roppongi Art Forum, Tokyo
1998 - "Potboiler" Show, Space
Yui, Tokyo
2000 - Gallery Pax, ...
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Artist Statement for John Shelley
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As an illustrator my work has crossed bridges spanning Eastern and Western cultures, between children's publishing and commercial illustration, two very different genres.
Though I maintain a singular vision I tend to approach the diverse markets in unique ways, with distinctly differing techniques. A good illustrator has the chameleon's ability to respond to the requirements of the media, a poster in the street is generally viewed in a completely different way to a children's picture book, they appeal to different parts of the brain.
I've often felt that commercial illustration comes from the head, it's designed to leap out, grab viewers and hold them with it's graphic cleverness, it's visual sophistication or charm. It reaches out to seize it's audience. Publishing work on the other hand is more the realm of the heart, perhaps more feminine in that it gently charms the reader into the intimacy of a private world. It entices the viewer in. Of course often the greatest illustrations work on both levels.
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