Juri Markkula grew up in Finland, and moved to Sweden for a year of preparational art school, before being admitted to The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, for a Master Programme In Fine Arts from 1997-2002. His work is industrial, technological and physically demanding in its creation, creating works which present multi-faceted viewpoints for the collector.

Works such as Green to Lilac, which change colour according to the perspective of the viewer, demonstrate the artist’s keenness to present and offer multiple angles and perspectives to the viewer, inviting them to observe their own world of colour and substance within his creations.

Juri Markkula’s huge project for Stockholm’s MTR is an enticing draw to the Stockholm City Train Station. A vast project made up of seemingly infinite glass tiled mosaics, Juri made the initial sketches in 2012, and finished painting the last pieces in 2017. The scale of this project is such that it is both monumental and humane, walls which reflect light as if the outside has been brought inside, and the industrial has been tamed.