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UFO coming

Poster
1967 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (artist)
Osiris (publishers)
English, Michael (artist)
Weymouth, Nigel (artist)
Place of origin
London (made)

Poster in purple, yellow and gold. Psychedelic images of butterflies, flowers and human forms.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleUFO coming (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Silkscreen
Paper
Silkscreen
Screen Printing
Brief description
Psychedelic poster entitled 'UFO coming' by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (Michael English and Nigel Waymouth), published by Osiris Agency Ltd. London, 1967.
Physical description
Poster in purple, yellow and gold. Psychedelic images of butterflies, flowers and human forms.
Marks and inscriptions
  • UFO COMING (Text at top of poster.)
  • June 16 Crazy World / of Arthur Brown / Soft Machine / June 23 Liverpool Love / Festival (Text at bottom of poster.)
Gallery label
"Michael English (born 1942) and Nigel Waymouth (born 1941)
UFO Coming. Poster promoting the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Soft Machine on June 16 and Liverpool Love Festival on June 23
1967
Published by Osiris Agency Ltd.
Screenprint
E.1704-1991

Both the sexual references and the Unidentified Flying Objects in space suggested in the title are absorbed into the overall design with its amorphous shapes and carefully drawn details. The birth signs of the artists, Virgo and Cancer, are represented in the lower corners of the image.
The Liverpool event was brought to London by the poet Adrian Henri and included music and poetry."

Text by Julia Bigham
Subjects depicted
Psychedelic Art
Posters
Bands
Music
Psychedelic
Concerts
Space
Spaceships
Aliens
Waves
Flowers
Soft Machine
Arthur Brown
Bibliographic reference
Christoph Grunberg, ed. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era London: Tate, 2005. 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ISBN: 1854375954.
Other number
OA104
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1704-1991

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Record createdNovember 13, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129162/ufo-coming-poster-english-michael/
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