We have been running a gallery for art works related to music for the last 7 years. Events so far have included Project D.A.R.K., Savage Pencil, Billy Childish, Mark Mothersbaugh and many more new and talented artists. New Savage Pencil due soon...

Previous Shows

Dee Lakhani - Dark Art Takes A Centre Stage

1 May - 1 July- Dee Lakhani - metal inspired drawings.

Richard Gallon - Music Legends

A celebration of unsung heroes in the world of popular music, in two parts. Firstly, paintings of compact cassette covers to relive the glory days when "Home Taping was Killing Music", and secondly recently taken photographs of Brazilian samba

The Phono Erotic History of Recorded Sound as We Know It

An extraordinary exhibition of bizarre artefacts, exquisite drawings and recently unearthed documentation, charting the fantastic history and remarkable audio endeavours of the Phono Erotic Record Label and founders Kirsten Reynolds and Ashley Davies.

A three part show: The Early Years - 6 November 2005 to 12 December 2005 The Dark Ages - 15 December 2005 to 28 Jan 2006 The Age of Digits - 29 January 2006 to 5 March 2006

Savage Pencil "Artfang"

More details about Savage Pencil's work can be accessed from his lovely website at http://www.savagepencil.com

1 Sept - 1 Nov

New work by Savage Pencil with a dark metal bent. To qoute Savage Pencil "Black Metal, Goat Worhsip, Semen, Blood And Ink".

FONO ONE: Exotica Sunday The show was For One Night Only. Exotica was the first in an ongoing series of events which re-interpret the art gallery for the 21st century. Utilising a space for For One Night Only, these one-off events have a collection of works tailored to that setting. Featuring a combination of sound, music and visuals, FONO is true multimedia art in a spontaneous setting. For more FONO, visit http://www.fono.org.uk

Neil Sparkes - Spirits known and unknown Paintings and drawings 1996 - 2005. "Sparkes' works draw from world cultures he has lived and worked with, researched and experienced. His visual art practice interacts and influenced his music and text and show a complete vision for his energy and combine new images, ideas and visual invention continuously in his work" Peter Smith, KIAD.

Daniel Goodwin- Young Marble Giants

Sketches drawing from the raw side of that punk/indie ambition examining the true nature of rock and roll...

Twinkle - Rock Icons

Using iconic photographs of such rock stars, such as Rod Stewart, Elvis, Mick Jagger, Johnny Cash, Jimi Henrix and Bob Dylan, Twinkle creates bold colourful canvases, which play with notions of pop art and her work has proved as popular with the icons she portrays as it has with the rest of us.

Nicky Deelely "Good Morning Corn Pleasant!" 23 August - 28 November 2004

Detailed acrylic and ink paintings, exploring facets of small towns, the characters that inhabit them and the scenarios that ensue...

Her wonderful website is at: http://www.squidbunny.net/

Neal Watkins - Strawberry Fields - Photographs

June - August 2004

It's forty years since The Beatles were first beamed into American homes and hearts on the Ed Sullivan show.
Neal Watkin's poignant pictures of Strawberry Fields in Central Park show how deep and long-lasting the American love affair with The Beatles has been.
Music has always been a large part of Neal's life from a very young age. Many artists have influenced his view of the world, The Beatles and John Lennon especially. Strawberry Fields is a place he can feel close to John & Yoko and their hope for world peace.
IMAGINE...

Jowe Head - Hand made prints and paintings

Dec 2003- March

Jowe (Stephen Bird), is was a performer with the Swell Maps and Television Personalities, and now with Angel Racing Food. His artwork has been used for record covers and he has also incorporated action painting into his bands' live performances.
Jowe's work is surreal and eccentic and often incorporates found objects into his pictures. This exhibition mostly features his grotesque figures, brightly painted 3-D heads getting up to mischievous acts!

There are a couple of sites who follow Jowe's happenings : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jowehead and www.televisionpersonalities.co.uk/jowe.htm

Mickey Hampshire - Oil Paintings

THE DETAIL PAINTINGS Intricate, horrifying and beautiful, these pictures are full of troubling images, reminiscent of themes explored by Giorgio DeChirico, Hieronymous Bosch, and Max Ernst. Surrealistic and sinister characters exist in a Medieval landscape realised with an unsettling feeling of the impossible yet familiar. THE ABSTRACTS Quite different, yet clearly by the same hand, these powerful and muscular pictures are almost a distilled-spirit version of the others. Three dimensional forms loom out of flat landscapes, dark figures resolve themselves in slabs of alternating vibrant and gloomy colour. Shapes only possible in dreams crawl onto the canvas. Mickey was a member of the legendary MILKSHAKES, the ultimate antidote to the 80s. Along with fellow Medway artist and band-mate BILLY CHILDISH, BRUCE BRAND & RUSS WILKINS. Today he plays in THE MASONICS a stripped-down trio that stick to old MILKSHAKES values.

Mark Mothersbaugh - Homefront Invasion!

4 August - 6 October 2003, show of prints from Mark's postcard art. Mark, formerly Devo frontman, has been producing his postcard art for the last 30 years. In his own words he feels "like a modern day caveman looking for a method of communication in a world of unutterable ideas and sensations". His work reflects his interest in international issues in a cartoon-like way, often putting a series of postcards together for a print to produce a storyboard. For more information about Mark Mothersbaugh look at www.mutato.com/gallerytour2003

Carolyn - Portraits of Blues and Rock Musicians

Detailed pencil sketches from classic photographs and atmospehric oils including artists suchs as Neil Young, Captain Beefheart, Iggy, Pink Floyd and Patti Smith more detail can be found on Carolyn's website at: www.musicart.fsnet.co.uk

EL MUNDO EXOTICO DE...Josh Collins

Josh returns to Intoxica for his third show of South Seas Souvenirs & Exotica Art. After a complete tropical refit of the shop the scene is perfectly set for his weird and wonderful take on the Tiki Scene. Keep up to date with their new exploits at www.wildweekend.com

Paloma Pop "Soul and decorative art, relationship, if there is any!"

With a pop art heart this lively Spanish artist knows how to capture your eyes and make you smile. Original paintings such as the Jazz, Funk and Soul series vividly capture the style, the music and the atmosphere of these musical genres. Visit her website palomapop.isgreat.tv/

Kingsley Davis "Black Keys"

A diary of iconic jazz musicians, created using silk screen printing. The portraits are based on sketched studies of such musicans as Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd, Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald amongst others, with use of text defining their unique contributions to the music. Visit his website:http://www.kingsleydavies.co.uk
or email him on: kingston.art@virign.net

Andy Ward "More musical people"

Andy Ward's second show with his own take on record sleeves of musicians he admires, and portraits of musicians. Also his dark humour is displayed in his cartoons and t-shirts. Great images, accessible in price (from £12.00) and content. His work has been published in the Independent, Straight no chaser, Ape and many others.
Or visit his web site: www.andyward.co.uk

Project Dark present "Play with me"

The first gallery event was by Project DARK, who produce an ongoing catalogue of vinyl and non-vinyl artifact 7 inch singles. This, their second show ran con-currently with their Hayward Gallery exhibition 'Sonic Boom', featuring a collection of collages on their theme of strange 7 inch items, this time in unusual sitiuations. For example The feeding of the 5,000 and Cooking with Mum.

Savage Pencil's Primers

Showing the original artwork from The Wire Primers section. For sale will be a limited number 25 of A3 screen prints of: Captain Beefheart/Sun Ra/James Brown/Karlheinz Stockhausen. A set of four will be £100.00 , induvidual ones will be £30.00 priority will be given to people ordering the set of four. Pictures now available!
Black & White images of some of these appreared as free postcards with the Wire. The prints are two colours: black with coloured highlights, and on hand made paper. If you wish to see the prints please e-mail us.

Naked Youth - Billy Childish

International cult figure Billy Childish is a most prolific poet, painter and song-writer. In a twenty year period Childish has published 30 collections of his poetry, recorded over 70 full-length independent LP's and produced over 1,000 paintings. We stock his records, so it seemed like a good idea to show his work! Check out his website at billychildish.com

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