Brian Eno is a British musician, composer, record producer and visual artist known as one of the main innovators of ambient music and generative painting. He attended Ipswich Art School and Winchester College of Art in the 1960s, where he was introduced to Minimalism and the principles of conceptual painting, in addition to sound sculpture.

He joined Roxy Music as synthesiser player in 1971. Leaving in 1973 to record a number of solo albums and coining the term ‘ambient music’ to describe his work. He collaborated with artists such as David Bowie and David Byrne.

As a visual artist he has been exhibiting regularly since the late 1970s. His work is dedicated almost exclusively to the possibilities of the medium of light. In 2009, Eno was given the very rare invitation to exhibit on the iconic sails of the Sydney Opera House in Australia, achieved by using powerful projectors to throw the light across Circular Quay.

Eno has previously exhibited at Biennale de Lyon, Serpentine Gallery and The Barbican Centre, London.

“ I’ve been trying to slow music down so it became more like painting, and to animate paintings so that they became more like music…in the hope that the two would fuse in the middle. „

—Brian Eno