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An Exhibition of Pop Art
by
Horace Panter
Catalogue 2 – Cassettes
Cassettes
C30
“The ubiquitous audio cassette is an artefect that evokes memory. Transient, disposable
and portable, it has long since been replaced by new technologies to become an integral
part of my, and probably your, youth. This series is called C30 because it denotes the
smaller size of the painting.”
John Peel – August 1981
Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm
Original SOLD
(Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed)
In The City – The Jam
Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm
Original Available
(Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed)
Madness – One Step Beyond – Final Mixes
Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm
Original SOLD
(Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed)
Motown Chartbusters Volume 3
Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm
Original Available
(Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed)
Prince Far - I
Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm
Original Available
(Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed)
Northern Soul
Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm
Original Available
(Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed)
Stereotype / Jet Set
Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm
Original Available
(Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed)
Cassettes
C30
Blank Expression
“These cassettes can be personalised ... what would you write on them?”
Blank Expression - AGFA
Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm
Original Available
(Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £250 unframed)
Blank Expression - TDK
Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm
Original Available
(Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £250 unframed)
Cassettes
C90
“The increase in scale gives a new dimension to a mundane object, thereby elevating its
status to monolithic.”
Enjoy Yourself
Original Acrylic on Panel 92 x 61 cm
Original Available
(Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £500 unframed)
Chic – Good Times
Original Acrylic on Panel 92 x 61 cm
Original Available
(Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £500 unframed)
Top 40
Original Acrylic on Panel 92 x 61 cm
Original Available
(Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £500 unframed)
HORACE PANTER - BIOGRAPHY
Born in Croydon in 1953, Horace graduated with a degree in Fine Art from Coventry’s ‘Lanchester Polytechnic’
in 1975. It was there that he met Jerry Dammers and together they formed The Specials, a band that went on
to become one of the most defining British bands of the 1980s. He travelled the world (and its art galleries) as
a musician and then, from 1998-2008, was the ‘Head of Art’ in a secondary school. It was in 2008, when The
Specials reformed, that he found he had the time to explore his own art practice.
Horace’s first solo exhibition was in 2009 at London’s Strand Gallery and he has since exhibited throughout
the UK, including at the AAF London, The London Art Fair, The Groucho Club and The London Print Fair
at The Royal Academy as well as in galleries in Birmingham, Bath, Manchester, Aberdeen, Bournemouth,
Bristol and Liverpool. He has also worked on collaborations with a number of companies, including Fred
Perry, Club Wembley, Sheaffer Inc., Teenage Cancer Trust, Amy Winehouse Foundation, Screaming
Records DK and Stone Foundation (the latter two involved designing record labels and album covers).
Much of Horace’s figurative work is based on traditional forms of iconography infused with a Pop Art
sensibility, with influences ranging from Peter Blake, Kenneth Noland, Wayne Thiebaud and Joseph Cornell as
well as the naive style of Henri Rousseau. He is interested in how iconography has always served a purpose
for religious or political propaganda in which art reflects an ideology and is used as a tool to reinforce the
prevailing rhetoric of absolutist regimes. His aim in creating contemporary iconography is to question the
narrative of the icon by reproducing and questioning its status and authority in a post-modern setting. In this,
he follows the Pop Art mantra of ‘elevating the mundane’; his icons are often of people who are ‘unseen’. His
more recent paintings and collages, pay tribute to his favourite musicians, owing more to the influence of Peter
Blake, Andy Warhol or Kurt Schwitters, with an emphasis on the visual narrative of the subject presented in
fragmented pieces but expressing a cohesive history, as can be seen in his ‘Chicago Blues’ series. In his
cassette series, the artefact is celebrated along with the cultural/historical context of seminal albums and the
recording studios in which they were made.
It could be argued that his paintings are autobiographical inasmuch as they emerge from experiences, places
and people that he has met on his travels as well as from his love of music; from his childlike images of robots
to his more reflective portrait of Amy Winehouse, each work could represent a part of his kaleidoscopic and
colourful sense of the world.
Reuben Colley Fine Arts
50 & 52 St Mary's Row, Moseley, Birmingham. B13 8JG
Tel : 0121 449 3744
Email : enquiries@reubencolleyfinearts.co.uk
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