Horace Panter - Cassette Editions
Reuben Colley Fine Arts
1st December 2014 - 17th January 2015
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'The first cassette I painted was for a commission for a Christmas card for Teenage Cancer Trust. It was a Sony C60 with ‘Christmas Party Tape’ written on it. It sold out. Looking through a box of old cassettes I found a tape from the second Specials album sessions from the long-demolished Horizon Studios in Coventry. I also had cassettes from various other sessions I recorded in Leamington Spa at John Rivers’ Woodbine Street Studio, where ‘Ghost Town’ was recorded. Once I decided to paint them, it quickly became apparent that there was a series here. The detritus of record making, the lowly studio cassette, becomes revered and gets the icon makeover. There were other studios, Wessex, where The Clash famously recorded London Calling, the Power Station in New York, where Chic reigned and David Bowie recorded Let’s Dance in 1983, unleashing Stevie Ray Vaughan onto the record-buying public. The list was not endless. Cassettes started around 1970 and were extinct by 1995 as far as recording studios were concerned. That left a quarter century of time within which to appropriate my subject matter.'
Horace Panter
Some of the original paintings to these editions are available to view by appointment. To enquire about availability and to make an appointment to view please email tim@colleyisongallery.co.uk
TO VIEW THE COMPLETE CASSETTE COLLECTION PLEASE CLICK HERE
TO VIEW THE CATALOGUE FEATURING THE C90 COLLECTION PLEASE CLICK ICON BELOW
'The first cassette I painted was for a commission for a Christmas card for Teenage Cancer Trust. It was a Sony C60 with ‘Christmas Party Tape’ written on it. It sold out. Looking through a box of old cassettes I found a tape from the second Specials album sessions from the long-demolished Horizon Studios in Coventry. I also had cassettes from various other sessions I recorded in Leamington Spa at John Rivers’ Woodbine Street Studio, where ‘Ghost Town’ was recorded. Once I decided to paint them, it quickly became apparent that there was a series here. The detritus of record making, the lowly studio cassette, becomes revered and gets the icon makeover. There were other studios, Wessex, where The Clash famously recorded London Calling, the Power Station in New York, where Chic reigned and David Bowie recorded Let’s Dance in 1983, unleashing Stevie Ray Vaughan onto the record-buying public. The list was not endless. Cassettes started around 1970 and were extinct by 1995 as far as recording studios were concerned. That left a quarter century of time within which to appropriate my subject matter.'
Horace Panter
Some of the original paintings to these editions are available to view by appointment. To enquire about availability and to make an appointment to view please email tim@colleyisongallery.co.uk
TO VIEW THE COMPLETE CASSETTE COLLECTION PLEASE CLICK HERE
TO VIEW THE CATALOGUE FEATURING THE C90 COLLECTION PLEASE CLICK ICON BELOW
