Before embarking on a course in Fine Art in Amsterdam, Heimir Björgúlfsson studied sonology, an interdisciplinary field of research in electronic and computer music, in The Hague. He was an active member of experimental bands since the early 1990s, most recently in The Vacuum Boys, and also had his own record label. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he devotes himself to painting, photographic collage, sculpture and installation art. Based on his own pictures of everyday environments, with a bias towards the not-so-glamorous side of California, and drawing on his experience from a variety of milieus, he builds unexpected and virtually surrealistic combinations in his collages. An interest in ornithology in his early years lies behind the recurring appearance of birds in his works. In the paintings, the often exotic birds are depicted sharply, while the background varies between urban settings or abstract painterly fields with references ranging from graffiti and pop to informal painting. The birds also figure in his sculptures, assemblages that incorporate such disparate objects as beer bottles, golf clubs, vinyl records and books, combined with pigeon skeletons, bird skulls and stuffed birds. With these strange aviary creatures and poetic, puzzling titles, Björgúlfsson prompts us to look at our civilisation from a different angle.