Peter Wilkins – Rock & Roll
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Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? -
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers -
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed -
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust -
Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill -
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds -
The Doors- Waiting for the Sun -
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley -
The Killers - Hot Fuss -
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell -
Moby - Play -
U2 - Achtung Baby -
Tragically Hip - Road Apples -
Arcade Fire - Suburbs -
Joni Mitchell - Blue -
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene -
Neil Young - Harvest -
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights -
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black -
Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever -
Blur - Parklife -
Brian Eno - Another Green World -
Coldplay - Yellow -
David Bowie - Low -
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment -
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love -
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English -
Pink Floyd - Animals -
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City -
Queen - A Day at the Races -
The Libertines - Up the Bracket -
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead -
Human League - Dare -
Happy Mondays - Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches -
Jon Hopkins - Immunity -
Massive Attack - Blue Lines -
New Order - Power, Corruption, Lies -
Pulp - This is Hardcore -
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking -
Public Image Ltd. - First Issue
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.