Born in Scotland and living and working in London, Colbert is often referred to as the “godson of Andy Warhol”. He has created a global following for his cartoon lobster persona and his masterful hyper pop history paintings. His work powerfully explores the patterns of contemporary digital culture and its relationship to a deeper art historical dialogue.

Through appropriation and reinterpretation, Colbert’s lobster rewrites art history on its own terms. Iconic pop motifs and art historical references reoccur such as van Gogh’s famous sunflowers, Duchamp’s urinal, as well as Warhol’s and Murakami’s flowers. With each art historical guise, the Lobster is reborn into a different time and setting. In THE MYTH OF THE LOBSTER PLANET Colbert merges these historical references with the surreal apocalyptic vision of his retro-future lobster world, wherein the lobster species battles over the future of the planet.

- Philip Colbert Studio