The exhibition, which opens on 20th October at the Quantus Gallery in London’s East End, features 30 works created especially for this solo show, and follows the influences and contours of Opake’s personal journey through addiction.

With work described as storybook realism, combining graffiti with pop art and blurring the boundaries of traditional 19th century portrait photography with popular cartoon imagery, the London-based artist joins the lineage of other pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Claes Oldenburg.