Peter Wilkins – Rock & Roll

Sep 9—Oct 1, 2016
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  • Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    42 × 42″
    2016

  • The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 42" x 42", 2016

  • The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 36" x 36", 2016

  • David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 36" x 36", 2016

  • Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 28" x 28", 2016

  • Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 28" x 28", 2016

  • The Doors- Waiting for the Sun

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 28" x 28", 2016

  • Elvis Presley- Elvis Presley

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 28" x 28", 2016

  • The Killers - Hot Fuss

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    28 × 28″
    2015

  • Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    28 × 28″
    2015

  • Moby - Play

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 28" x 28", 2016

  • U2 - Achtung Baby

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    28 × 28″
    2016

  • Tragically Hip - Road Apples

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" x 14", 2013

  • Arcade Fire - Suburbs

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" x 14", 2014

  • Joni Mitchell - Blue

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2014

  • Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2014

  • Neil Young - Harvest

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" x 14", 2014

  • Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" x 14", 2014

  • Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" x 14", 2015

  • Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • Blur - Parklife

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • Brian Eno - Another Green World

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • Coldplay - Yellow

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" x 14", 2015

  • David Bowie - Low

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" x 14", 2015

  • Kaiser Chiefs - Employment

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • Marianne Faithfull - Broken English

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • Pink Floyd - Animals

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" x 14", 2015

  • PJ Harvey - Stories from the City

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" x 14", 2015

  • Queen - A Day at the Races

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" x 14", 2015

  • The Libertines - Up the Bracket

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • Human League - Dare

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" x 14", 2015

  • Happy Mondays - Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" × 14"
    2015

  • Jon Hopkins - Immunity

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14" × 14",
    2015

  • Massive Attack - Blue Lines

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • New Order - Power, Corruption, Lies

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14” x 14”, 2015

  • Pulp - This is Hardcore

    C Print on mounted plexiglass, 14” x 14”, 2015

  • Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • Public Image Ltd. - First Issue

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015


Inspired by a range of classic rock and roll album covers, from Elvis Presley’s ‘Elvis Presley’ (the first rock ‘n’ roll record to be number one) to the Beatles and the Stones and on to The Tragically Hip, this collection of new work acknowledges the power of music and the importance of its imagery. These new artworks endeavour to capture the colour and pictorial elements of original albums. The elements are then digitally re-mixed and abstractly represented as circular artworks, celebrating the form of the record and creating a new emblematic aesthetic of the original album cover.

At first glance the works are punchy, eye catching experiments in colour, then upon reflection reveal an undercurrent of recognition of the album and the memories of it’s music.

All works are C-prints, face mounted on plexi-glass.

Peter Wilkins is a multimedia artist based in Clarke’s Beach, Newfoundland. Wilkins’ various bodies of work have been exhibited in public and private galleries across Canada and internationally, including Canada House, (London, UK) and the 2013 Venice Biennale. His portrait and landscape artworks are held in public and private collections around the world, including the National Portrait Gallery of Canada.

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