Refer to NGV website: "Julian Opie’s work for NGV Triennial connects the clean visual language of modern life with the fundamentals of art history. It is a work influenced by classical portraiture, Egyptian hieroglyphs and Japanese woodblock prints, as well as public signage, information boards and traffic signs. Commissioned by the City of Melbourne and the NGV to create a new permanent installation in the public sphere out front of the gallery, Opie is adorning more than 20 LED screens with a variety of animated birds – depicted one per screen in the artist’s unique style. The birds, unperturbed by the passing traffic, appear to be grazing on the nature strips that separate the lanes of St Kilda Road. In addition to this work being an extension of Opie’s own NGV Garden project of 2018, the installation is also connected to the NGV’s Collection of ancient Egyptian art. Julian Opie says: ‘By turning their surrounding nature of people and animals into a readable and common language, the Egyptians created a vocabulary out of life, a way of reading the world and of recognising both our engagement in the world but also our distance from it; the interpretive nature of being.’

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