Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Martin, whose artwork is used throughout The Beat Is The Law website and which can be purchased from our shop, has a main exhibition of his work entitled “Trust” in the Yorkshire Artspace running throughout October. The artwork for The Beat Is The Law will be on display at the launch party 9th October.
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Phil Wolstenholme, creator of one of the pieces of artwork for the film and brought to animated life in the MEDIA section’s The Listening Room , celebrated 20 years of creativity with a great retrospective at the Workstation over the summer, the exhibition, which included his art for The Beat Is The Law, was extended due to popular demand.
“The breadth of material on show may puzzle those expecting a single theme or some overarching theory on which to hang an opinion (or indeed a review). But at a time when so much visual art relies for validation on mission statements and other textual baggage, it’s pleasing to find work that displays confidence in versatility and pure visual pleasure.”
David Thompson – Eye Blog, 28th July 2009
Purchase a Wolstenholme limited edition signed print from the shop
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
“When Martin did the posters for the Leadmill, I would look out for them on the walls of our city. I was as interested in them, as much as the bands they were promoting. Sometimes more so. He made the often boring art of advertising a gig, into an event in itself.”
Richard Hawley.
When I interviewed Martin for the film last year it became apparent how important Martin has been in the development of the city’s music scene especially for his hard work setting up the Leadmill from scratch to his Leadmill posters that now can be seen to represent the changing times in music throughout the 80’s. I was very excited when Martin agreed to revisit that period and style to produce artwork for The Beat is The Law that summed up for him what the 80’s were all about. The result is very powerful and really does sum up an era beautifully. The artwork has also been incorporated into the website design.
>> Limited edition signed silkscreen prints are available from The Beat Is The Law shop <<
Martin recently went on a pilgrimage to America’s West Coast where he met for the first time the people that inspired him and his style of art and where he was also asked to produce commissioned artwork for well-known artists. He has also just published a fantastic book of his Leadmill posters.
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Nick Bax’s Human studios provided essential support with the project getting off the ground and the sponsorship event. We used part of their initial design for the first phase website.
“I was born in Huddersfield but moved to Rotherham when I was 9. I always thought of it as a satellite of Sheffield if you like. I grew up in Rotherham and then I left Rotherham asap – you wanted to get away. When I started to come up to Sheffield on a regular basis whan I was 13/14 with my friends, it was like going to New York for the day.
I was too young for punk, I was about 6 when punk happened. The first thing I was into was Ska or Madness. But bands like Cabaret Voltaire I guess were my first contact. I had heard things about them and would read about them in the paper locally, but my first contact was when they appeared on things like the Max Headroom show. At the time on Tv there weren’t many Music shows so anything that was on that was music related we would watch religiously, things like The Tube to the Chart Show. I remember seeing them on Max Headroom with the Sensoria video and that was incredible.”
Nick moved to London to work before coming back up North to Sheffield in 1990 when the Sheffield Bleep movement was taking over from the Madchester sound. He joined Ian Anderson’s Designers Republic and later became a director of the company. His most well-known designs are the Pulp albums including His n Hers and Different Class, but he also designed album covers for Warp artist Aphex Twin and for various Britpop bands including Supergrass.
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