Jazz at the Roundhouse: A benefit concert for the Rent Surcharge

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Artist/Maker	Osiris (publishers) McInnerney, Michael (artist) Dudley Edwards (artist)
Place of origin	England (made)

Psychedelic poster. Dark blue through light blue and silver. Red Chinese dragon and blue human figure wind round each other ending in hand holding globes of various sizes. Designed to promote a benefit concert for the Rent Surcharge: Paddy O'Connor legal costs fund: organised by the North St Pancras Labour Party, October 15th, 1967.

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Categories	Prints Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Jazz at the Roundhouse: A benefit concert for the Rent Surcharge (popular title)
Materials and techniques	Silkscreen Paper Silkscreen Printing
Brief description	Psychedelic poster by Michael McInnerney and Dudley Edwards entitled 'Jazz at the Roundhouse'. Great Britain, ca. 1960s.
Physical description	Psychedelic poster. Dark blue through light blue and silver. Red Chinese dragon and blue human figure wind round each other ending in hand holding globes of various sizes. Designed to promote a benefit concert for the Rent Surcharge: Paddy O'Connor legal costs fund: organised by the North St Pancras Labour Party, October 15th, 1967.
Gallery label	Michael McInnerney (born 1944) and Dudley Edwards (born 1944) Jazz at the Roundhouse. A benefit concert for the Rent Surcharge: Paddy O'Connor legal costs fund: organised by the North St Pancras Labour Party, October 15 1967 Published by Osiris Visions Ltd. Screenprint. E.1719-1991 Following their introduction to the Indian avatar Meher Baba (1894-1969), both artists wished to convey his spiritual message of Love and Truth through their work and therefore formed a partnership. Their work became more mystical and eastern iconography and pattern was increasingly used. This is particularly evident in this image with the snake scales and repeating pattern and the Hindu-inspired demon mask and seated figures. McInnerney describes the poster: "This has very little to do with jazz, the subject was secondary to the spiritual message. The two entwined snake forms depict a struggle between good, represented by music with a pan like figure in blue, and evil, the form of a demon head in red. The symbolic idea rises up the poster from the hand, at the bottom of the snake forms, which holds a world, highlighting the cosmic struggle of opposites". Text by Julia Bigham.
Subjects depicted	Psychedelic Concert
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	OA 121
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1719-1991

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Record created	November 17, 2006
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129270/jazz-at-the-roundhouse-a-poster-mcinnerney-michael/

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