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

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    42 × 42″
    2016

  • The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    36 × 36″
    2016

  • David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    36 × 36″
    2016

  • Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    28 × 28″
    2016

  • Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    28 × 28″
    2016

  • The Doors- Waiting for the Sun

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    28 × 28″
    2016

  • Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    28 × 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

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    28 × 28″
    2016

  • U2 - Achtung Baby

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    28 × 28″
    2016

  • Tragically Hip - Road Apples

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2013

  • Arcade Fire - Suburbs

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 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

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2014

  • Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2014

  • Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 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

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • David Bowie - Low

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 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

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • PJ Harvey - Stories from the City

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • Queen - A Day at the Races

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 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

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • Happy Mondays - Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14″
    2015

  • Jon Hopkins - Immunity

    Peter Wilkins

    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

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 14”
    2015

  • Pulp - This is Hardcore

    Peter Wilkins

    C Print on mounted plexiglass
    14 × 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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