Art Unmasked

27 OCTOBER 2022 - 10 NOVEMBER 2023
Turn and Face the Strange by Morgan Howell Install of Turn and Face the Strange
Turn and Face the Strange by Morgan Howell
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14. Morgan Howell

TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE

Carved Wood, Paint, Orange Mask on Working Turntable
45 x 37 x 25cm
This work is unique. 

This piece was conceived during the pandemic, a period of huge change in all of our lives. Just as Bowie sang about facing up to and accepting these changes and the passing of time, so the work speaks of living with our new reality, however different it may be.

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£9,000 - 11,000

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Art Unmasked (14/19)

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Known for his giant, hand-painted 3-D facsimiles of classic paper sleeve 45s Morgan Howell FRSA creates a one-off unique supersized painting of each single. The natural wear incurred by the treasured disc is duly rendered in paint, making for a desirable artwork and consciousness portal for vinyl junkie music heads everywhere. Howell's attention to detail is fastidious, down to the authentically distressed and creased canvas that doubles as up-scaled paper sleeves and the tiny imperfections round the edges of the labels of the 27” vinyl records. He additionally offers prints and also takes commissions as long as the song hasn’t already been painted. 

Howell’s original paintings are attracting a cult following among musicians and music industry moguls. Collectors include Lord Lloyd Webber, Neil Diamond, Ozzy Osbourne, Jude Law, Johnny Marr, Hans Zimmer and Edgar Wright. His painting of David Bowie’s 'The Jean Genie' sits proudly on the wall at Sony Music, 'Yesterday' by The Beatles was displayed at the iconic Capitol Building in L.A..

Examples of his work are a permanent feature at the BBC and at London’s Barbican. 

Howell’s passion has always been his art and, in 2005, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art.

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