INTERVIEW
IN YOUR FACE: Opie’s self- 2014, shows his typically clear, communicative use of line.
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Julian Opie has been making art since he was 12. While his friends were misbehaving after school, he was in his bedroom in 1970s Oxford, working on one project after another, revising and remaking. That is where and when, he says, his driving need to go back to things began. He was always figuring out how to make a piece better than he had the day before. “I’ve been doing that ever since,” he says.