THE LIFE OF REILLY

Since graduating from the Royal College of Art, Reilly has become a key figure in the world of illustration. His highly individual style is at the forefront in using new technologies to push the boundaries of what can be achieved in illustration.

Reilly is one of the new breed of illustrators mixing the wild imagination of an artist with the obsessive skill of the apple-mac wizard. His work fuses international high glamour and street chic with motifs of urban culture and gritty images of Hackney, his home in East London. 

Combining dynamic rainbows swirls, repetitions of glossy lips and painstakingly observed come-hither eyes, then layering over tags, graffiti and found objects, as well as his own cartoon characters - this makes his work instantly recognisable in all its hypnotic variety.

His commercial work has been used on T-shirt prints, album covers, television & print adverts, animation and mobile phone picture downloads, as well limited-edition Coke bottles, magazines covers and portraits of Beyoncé, Missy Elliot and Diddy.

His client list reads like a who's who.

Fashion names include: JIMMY CHOO, CHLOÉ, JD SPORTS, MATTHEW WILLIAMSON, DEBENHAMS, TOMMY HILFIGER, MARKS & SPENCER, MISS SELFRIDGE, TED BAKER, FIRETRAP, SONETTI, SPEEDO, RICKARD SHAH, GAP and TOPMAN. 

Magazines include: COMPLEX, TIMEOUT, CHROMA, GRAFIK, AMERICAN COSMOPOLITAN, LOADED FASHION, RADAR, FOOD&WINE, THE FACE, SURFACE, VOGUE, SUEDE, MOVMNT, IDN and VOGUE PELLE.

Blue Chip Companies include: DIAGEO, MACYS, MICROSOFT, COCA-COLA, MINISTRY OF SOUND, HED KANDI, ADOBE, OLD NAVY, CHANDELIER, LEO BURNETT, CANDYSPACE, JOHN BROWN CITUS and INTEGER.

Books include: Clin d’ oei: Pao&Paws & Long Sea,  GRAFUCK, Digital Illustration: Rotovision,

Illustration Now 2: Taschen 

REILLY has just signed to Vision Licensing where selected clients will be able to work with REILLY images and there creator on a range of exclusive products.

Reilly is represented by Art Department in New York. Email: stephaniep@art-dept.com