The Bard of Salford - Gallery Edition Print

The Bard of Salford: Portrait of John Cooper Clarke* This is an updated edition from an earlier series of portraits.The original artwork has been digitally enhanced with displacement effects and over-painted using new media experimental brushes. Released as a small edition of only 10 for each colour. • Type: Fine-Art Print • Medium: Giclée • Materials: 100% Cotton Fine Art Paper • Paper Type: Hahnemühle German Etching • Paper Size: approx 23.4" x 26.5" • Image Size: approx 20 inches square • Gallery Edition of only 10 • This artwork is sold unframed • Hand-signed by the artist (in pencil)* • Includes Certificate of Authenticity *Dr John Cooper Clarke is as vital now as he was in the 70s; His biting, satirical, political and very funny verse, delivered in a unique rapid-fire performance style, resonated with the punk movement. JCC toured with all the seminal bands; The Sex Pistols, The Clash & Buzzcocks, and in the USA with Elvis Costello. He began to draw large crowds in his own right. Joy Division were proud to frequently support JCC and New Order later opened for him on their first Australian tour. In 1978 JCC signed a major album deal with CBS Records. His records with the Invisible Girls, produced by Martin Hannett, are acknowledged as masterpieces. The unique fusions of JCC’s poems and The Invisible Girls’ highly original music, created influential records still name checked by people as diverse as Alex Turner, Plan B, Jarvis Cocker and Steve Coogan. He also released a massive collection of his poetry and words “Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt”, which became the bestselling poetry book of the1980s, and is reprinted every few years. A figurehead for the movement and all that it encompassed. He found himself as one of the leading voices of punk and youth culture of the late 70s. He became known as the “Punk Poet” or “The Bard of Salford” . Live, he was performing to thousands across the UK. Crowds gathered with open eyes and ears gazing up at his distinctive, and now iconic, visual appearance (tall and thin with a mess of black hair, black sunglasses, drainpipe trousers and Cuban-heeled boots) transfixed as he worked through a catalogue of work taken from his four studio albums and numerous singles. () Clarke's recording of "Evidently Chickentown" from his album Snap, Crackle & Bop was also featured prominently in the closing scene of The Sopranos episode Stage 5. Artist: Stewart aka Czar Catstick & The Emperor's New Clothes Collective