John Godfrey

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<div class="ecom-shopify__page-content"><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">John Godfrey is an award-winning Canadian interdisciplinary artist who utilizes references from pop culture, advertising, and entertainment to playfully subvert, question, and repurpose the conflicting messages these present-day icons disseminate across generations. His multifaceted practice resides at the intersection between digital art, illustration and object-based works, imbued with irony and a wry sense of humour.</span></div>
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<div class="ecom-shopify__page-content"><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">By day, John is a prolific movie poster designer, having created over 150 official movie posters, including winning the jury award for movie poster design at the 2024 SXSW Film &amp; TV Festival. H</span>is work for film advertising has been recognized internationally, including two Entertainment Clio Awards, five Graphis awards, and a Golden Trailer Award. Godfrey’s artistic works have been licensed for limited-edition Collective Arts cans distributed to dozens of countries worldwide. Two limited edition releases of his works sold out in minutes at Brooklyn's pop culture-focused Bottleneck Gallery. Two of his large-scale digitally-printed murals were displayed at Jackson Square and the Hamilton Farmers Market, both in Hamilton, CA.</div>
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