Vaughan Oliver At The Stanley Picker Gallery

(Foto del artista realizada por Michelle Turriani)

Vaughan Oliver needs no introduction to 4AD fans. Over the last 25 years, he has built up a unique body of work, creating seductive and extremely influential graphic designs for 4AD and for other clients too.

His work combines word and image into a distinctive visual vocabulary which has accompanied and enhanced the careers of 4AD artists like The Pixies and The Cocteau Twins; more recently, his work has appeared on releases by Scott Walker and TV on the Radio, amongst many others. His designs form part of the Victoria & Albert Museum collection and have been exhibited in Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Athens.

A new exhibition at the Stanley Picker Gallery in Kingston - entitled Slightly off the Ground - presents a personal selection of Vaughan's iconic music posters, covering the entire period for his earliest work with 4AD to the present day. It appears in a specially devised gallery installation, which hints at the street setting where many of the posters would have been first encountered, and which was designed by Vaughan together with his long term collaborator Chris Bigg. The music that inspired the designs will be playing in the gallery throughout the exhibition.

The exhibition runs until March 3rd. You can find out more at the Stanley Picker Gallery website.