Tuesday 12 June 2012

Stuart Sutcliffe Poster - Barbizon Gallery 1990

I've just wobbled up a ladder and sorted through a tsunami of posters to find this.... it's the Stuart Sutcliffe poster that I got from his exhibition at the Barbizon Gallery in Glasgow as part of Mayfest in 1990.



What an image.  It shows Stuart in a conscientiously bohemian pose, in a decadently silver-lined studio with ornately rococco table groaning with alcohol.  It's a scene that's funkier and artier than Andy Warhol's Factory, and says 'Look at me - I'm light years away from my working class roots - I escaped!'.

Hope you like it!

2 comments:

  1. If he'd lived, Stuart would have been 72 today, 23 June 2012.

    http://instagr.am/p/MOOIh1t5e1/

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  2. Yes, and makes you wonder what else he could have done if he'd had an extra 51 years...

    Mind you, just think what he did achieve - a critically successful artist and a member of one of the most successful bands in history - not a bad haul at 21!

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