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The Move and Pink Floyd at UFO

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

Psychedelic poster. Pink through orange to yellow rainbow lettering with gold on white ground. Image of an upside down woman with butterfly wings.

Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Poster
TitleThe Move and Pink Floyd at UFO (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Silkscreen screenprint
Paper
Screenprint
Brief description
Psychedelic poster by Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, otherwise known as Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, for The Move and Pink Floyd at UFO. Great Britain, 1967.
Physical description
Psychedelic poster. Pink through orange to yellow rainbow lettering with gold on white ground. Image of an upside down woman with butterfly wings.
Dimensions
  • Height: 752mm
  • Width: 495mm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Marks and inscriptions
  • 1007 [copyright] / UFO 1967 (Text in top left corner.)
  • THE MOVE / MAY / 26 / THEN / PINK FLOYD / JUNE.2 (Text on left hand side under woman's wing.)
  • UFO / 31TOT.CT RD / 10.30.DAWN (Text on right hand side under woman's wing.)
Gallery label
"Michael English (born 1942) and Nigel Waymouth (born 1941)
The Move. Poster promoting The Move and Pink Floyd at UFO, 26 May and 2nd June
1967
Screenprint
E.1708-1991

This is the first example of Hapshash using rainbow inking.
Richard Neville in 1970 wrote 'In London in 1967, every Friday night until dawn, shimmering flower children, splashed with Day-Glo, spotted with marcasite, clad in diaphanous revamped negligées, tarted-up Grenadier Guards jackets, in tat and glitter from the markets of Asia and the stalls of Portobello Road, in everything as long as it was beautiful, tripped inside a monstrous basement or queued outside, bedazzling the passing traffic. It was UFO...'"

Text by Julia Bigham
Subjects depicted
Psychedelic Art
Music
Musicians
Bands
Groups
Psychedelic
Pink
The Move
Bibliographic reference
Christoph Grunberg, ed. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era London: Tate, 2005. 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ISBN: 1854375954.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1708-1991

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Record createdNovember 15, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129217/the-move-and-pink-floyd-poster-english-michael/
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