1. Oliver Brendan Jeffers was born on 1977 and is an Australian-born Northern Irish artist, illustrator and writer.
14 Facts About Oliver Jeffers
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Oliver Jeffers went to the integrated secondary school Hazelwood College, then graduated from the University of Ulster in 2001.
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Oliver Jeffers relocated back to Northern Ireland in the early 2020s after a spell living and working in Brooklyn.
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Oliver Jeffers is widely known for his picture books for children, published by HarperCollins UK and Penguin US.
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Oliver Jeffers's solo show Additional Information, studied the balance between form and content by drawing parallels between the arts and sciences, in which figurative oil paintings were over laid with mathematical equations.
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Oliver Jeffers is presented by Lazinc Gallery in London and is regularly exhibited.
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In 2007, Oliver Jeffers was the official World Book Day Illustrator.
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In 2008, Oliver Jeffers featured in The Times list of "The Best New Picture Book Illustrators".
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In 2012, Oliver Jeffers provided illustrations for the UK Kinder TV ad campaign.
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In 2013, Oliver Jeffers illustrated the vinyl cover for the U2 song "Ordinary Love".
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Oliver Jeffers co-directed the video for the U2 song "Ordinary Love".
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Two years later, Oliver Jeffers contributed video content to the band's Innocence + Experience Tour, creating the chalk drawings and collages for the "innocence" act of the show.
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In 2017, Oliver Jeffers wrote and illustrated Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, a children's book which topped the New York Times Bestseller list in its debut and won Time Magazine's 2017 Best Book of the Year award in the Young Adult and Children's Books category.
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Oliver Jeffers was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to the arts.