ACHOF Breaking News Update – New Print Show Featuring The Works of Legendary Pop Artist Sir Peter Blake Opens Friday June 21st at Enter Gallery in Brighton, U.K.

Sir Peter Blake stands outside his Art Bus rolling gallery – appearing on June 21 at the Enter Gallery

Posted June 19, 2024 by Mike Goldstein

Whenever fans of music and music-related art are asked to pick a rock-era album cover “top 10”, there are albums that are always appearing at or near the top of these lists, with one seminal work of art – the cover collage designed by a team of talented people led by pop art superstar Peter Blake (now Sir Peter Blake) that’s found on the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP – being inevitably in the Top 3. Of course, Blake’s work is also found on other well-known album packages for The Who (Face Dances), Eric Clapton (24 Nights); Oasis (Stop The Clocks), Sweet Child for Pentangle and the soul-stirring collage for Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?, the Live Aid-related famine relief fund-raising record, but art collectors from around the world have also long-appreciated the designer’s portfolio of work outside the music business, so this new retrospective print collection that will be on display in the gallery (through the 2^nd of July) will be what is perhaps the most extensive presentation of Blake’s work to date, featuring many of the iconic works that earned him the moniker ‘The Godfather of Pop Art’.

ACHOF Breaking News Update – New Exhibition and Sale Announcement

Posted by Mike Goldstein April 5, 2024

Some things just can’t wait until next month…So, there’s going to be a new exhibition and sale of the works of the late artist and trend-setting graphic designer Jamie Reid, who died last August at the age of 76. The show will be staged at the Enter Gallery in Brighton, U.K., and will be launched at a private viewing event at the Gallery on Thursday the 25th of April, with gallerist and curator John Marchant of the John Marchant Gallery – who is also Director of The Arcova Trust – partnering with the gallery to curate the show and also speak to opening night attendees about Reid’s amazing and impactful life and career.

The exhibition, which runs for one week through the 2^nd of May, will be called Jamie Reid, A Lifetime of Radical Gestures and will be built around a collection of work from the artist’s “Rogue Materials” series, which he made between 1972 and 2021. Enhancing the viewing will be the display of fifty photographs that chronicle the life of the late design iconoclast, who is perhaps best-known for his work for one of the U.K. music scene’s most influential music/style acts, that being the Sex Pistols. In fact, Reid’s final artwork was an homage to his single cover for the band’s “Anarchy in the U.K.” that features a torn Union Jack flag (held together with safety pins) and the new silkscreen print was approved by Reid and his foundation – the Arcova Trust – before his death in 2023 and is being released in two new limited editions – one of 200 26.4” x 39.4” prints and a larger-sized edition of 76 39.4 x 59” prints, with the number 76 of course a reference to the year (1976) that the Pistols unleashed their single.  This print release is done in cooperation with Sex Pistols Residuals and Bravado.

Jamie Reid Anarchy in the UK (2024) photo credit: The Arcova Trust & Enter Gallery