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Inspired by the Rolling Stones. Rock n’ Roll survivors of the best Rock n Roll band in the world.‘It’s good to be here, it’s good to be anywhere’ A great Taoist philosophical quote from the Byron of Rock Keith Richards – This piece is a celebration of life and sticking around. www.stayingaliveneon.com  

Vladimir Lenin was enthusiastic about new mass communication technology like the radio and the gramophone and its capacity for educating Russia’s mostly illiterate peasant population. What would he have thought of the 12″? The artists have taken what would have been propaganda art in Lenin’s head , blinged it up with chrome electroplating and given it […]

Land of freedom, independence and generous portions. The artists wanted to encapsulate the concept of the cliche of ‘American Pie’ in a simple instantly gratifying image. Art as fast food.It is inspired by Britain -They love the British comic from Dundee the Beano and wanted the pie to look ‘messy and highly calorific but also […]

The artists’ first collaboration was at the inaugural exhibition of ‘Liverpool Love’ 2012 at the Museum of Liverpool. They put a neon frame around a Teletubbies inspired painting of the Beatles by Christian Furr; making it like a neo-shrine. This light is to celebrate the greatest band in history and the lyric ‘All You Need […]

‘My last visit to Liverpool, early summer, last year, was wonderful. It was a warm day, beautiful light over the Mersey and the streets were buzzing Optimism, passion and desire were all apparent and this is what I have sought in this painting’ About the artist Brendan Neiland is one of Britain’s foremost and contemporary […]

“Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are the maladies of physcians to cure, if they should be cured.  `Sins of the soul alone are shameful.” Oscar Wilde.  De Profundis 1879. ‘I have used this quotation from Wilde’s De Profundis, the 50 page epistle he wrote to ‘Bosie’ (Lord Alfred Douglas) from his cell in […]

Adrian Henri was born in Birkenhead in 1932. He studied Fine Art at King’s College, Newcastle under Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton. A former fairground worker, teacher and scenic artist, he settled in Liverpool in 1957 and taught at the Art College. He first came to prominence as a poet alongside Roger McGough and Brian […]

Who’s Who The figures, from left to right: William Burroughs; Mark Rushton (a friend and student of Adrian Henri’s at Manchester Art College); Stanley Dobbin (a printmaker from Manchester) and his wife Drena; a skeleton (no one in particular); Heather Holden (the love of Adrian Henri’s life in the early 1960s), Phillip Jones Griffiths with […]

‘I read in the news that overfishing is making our favourite takeaway extinct. I headed to my local chippy for a large cod and chips then rushed them off to pangolin foundry to be cast into bronze, a future reference of what we lost. Just imagine Great Britain without fish and chips.’ About the artist […]