Artists

Jon Burgerman has built a strong reputation through his unique and colourful artworks of swooping, intertwining lines and hyper-emotional characters. Working across a variety of media that includes drawing, painting, print, animation, large scale murals and toy design, his art retains a hand-made, hand-drawn quality. A sense of British self-deprecation, dry humour and modern-day anxiety imbues his work along with an enthusiasm for salads.

He has exhibited internationally since 2001 and has work in the permanent collections of The Victoria and Albert Museum and The Science Museum in London. He regularly gives lectures at Universities and presented his work at the prestigious Pictoplasma Character Design Conference (Berlin, 2006) where he also ran a ‘doodling’ workshop for the entire audience. In 2008 he was invited to appear as a guest on the popular BBC children’s TV show Blue Peter. He made a special piece of work live on air to celebrate the shows 50th birthday.

Burgerman has received two D&AD Silver award nominations and has worked on many commercial projects for high profile organisations which includes: The BBC, Cadbury, Pepsi, CocaCola, Sony, Kidrobot, The Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper (Australia), MTV, Levis, 55DSL, Gortex, Crown Creative Inc. (Japan), NookArt, Snickers, Miss Sixty, Size? and Rip Curl. He has also designed a special sick bag for Virgin Atlantic flights.

"Jon Burgerman makes vibrant, neo primitive scrawls of shapes and colour. He's pushed his monster-like characters into compositions where cartoon-like forms are crammed on top of each until they create a screaming mass of energy. Intensely prolific, he has pushed the character obsession of the late 90s into a far more interesting and strong direction. Think Walt Disney at an Incan monument on mescaline." -- Francesca Gavin, author of Street Renegades, Visual Arts Editor Dazed & Confused

"Jon Burgerman's images seem to have each been created in one burst of creative energy, his pen never leaving the paper once it has made contact until the image is complete. The result is that his drawings have a fresh immediacy that make them as fun as they are visually impactful. He refers to his work rather modestly as 'doodles' but really what he's doing is creating his own distinctive artwork at every available opportunity - whether it's on a pad of Post-Its just for fun, or on a larger scale in a variety of mediums for an enviable list of clients ranging from The Science Museum to Sky, Pepsi, Sony and Kidrobot." -- Gavin Lucas, Creative Review