NEFERTITI by John Squire
Please see below for images of work featured in this exhibition
Perhaps the finest guitarist of his generation, John Squire left the music business in 2004 after an ICA retrospective of his iconic Stone Roses cover art and has since exhibited worldwide.
His work was recently chosen to celebrate 75 years of Penguin Books, reflecting widespread critical respect for its strong, clearly identifiable aesthetic.
Nefertiti marks a new departure for John. Having always refused to have music in his studio – ‘some bullshit about suspending time’ - he moved last winter to the warmth of his kitchen where no ban applied and put on Nefertiti by Miles Davis.
‘The pulse, fragmentation and repetition suggested shapes, processes - hard, geometric structures on heavyweight paper - dense clouds and horizons. Slowly forms emerged'.
In work born of this musical reengagement John creates a coded soundtrack in oil and ink, a visual translation of the spontaneity, depth and ambiguity of that album.
Nefertiti by John Squire will be the first of two major Edinburgh International Festival exhibitions being held this year at The Henderson Gallery in conjunction with the Edinburgh Art Festival.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Henderson Gallery Team
His work was recently chosen to celebrate 75 years of Penguin Books, reflecting widespread critical respect for its strong, clearly identifiable aesthetic.
Nefertiti marks a new departure for John. Having always refused to have music in his studio – ‘some bullshit about suspending time’ - he moved last winter to the warmth of his kitchen where no ban applied and put on Nefertiti by Miles Davis.
‘The pulse, fragmentation and repetition suggested shapes, processes - hard, geometric structures on heavyweight paper - dense clouds and horizons. Slowly forms emerged'.
In work born of this musical reengagement John creates a coded soundtrack in oil and ink, a visual translation of the spontaneity, depth and ambiguity of that album.
Nefertiti by John Squire will be the first of two major Edinburgh International Festival exhibitions being held this year at The Henderson Gallery in conjunction with the Edinburgh Art Festival.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Henderson Gallery Team
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