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Psychedelic poster for two shows at the Roundhouse UFO

Poster
1967 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Osiris (publishers)
Martin Sharp (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

Psychedelic poster by promoting two shows at the Roundhouse UFO.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Psychedelia
Object type
Poster
TitlePsychedelic poster for two shows at the Roundhouse UFO (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Silkscreen print
Paper
Screen Printing
Silkscreen
Brief description
Psychedelic poster by Martin Sharp promoting two shows at the Roundhouse UFO, Dantalians Chariot with Zoot Money and the Social Deviants and the Exploding Galaxy on 22nd September, and Jeff Beck, Ten Years After, Mark Boyle's Sensual Laboratory, and Countess Veronica on 29th September. London, 1967.
Physical description
Psychedelic poster by promoting two shows at the Roundhouse UFO.
Dimensions
  • Height: 764mm
  • Width: 511mm
Gallery label
"Martin Sharp (born 1942)
Roundhouse UFO. Poster for Dantalians Chariot with Zoot Money and the Social Deviants and the Exploding Galaxy on 22 September, and Jeff Beck, Ten Years After, Mark Boyle's Sensual Laboratory, and Countess Veronica on 29th September
1967
Published Osiris Agency Ltd.
Screenprint
E.1718-1991

The highly talented Australian artist, Martin Sharp, worked mainly for the underground magazine Oz. This is his only poster for UFO but it is an extraordinary visual depiction of the power of music, in particular rock and rhythm and blues.
The Exploding Galaxy, founded by the kinetic artist David Medalla, was described in IT in October of that year as 'a kinetic confluence of transmedia creators: it exists as continuous contracting and expanding clusters of quaquaversal events. Dancers, poets, musicians, painters, these are the Exploding Galaxy...It is committed to the sensory activation of man's inner and outer environment'. Among the musicians it worked with were Arthur Brown, Graham Bond and the Soft Machine."

Text by Julia Bigham
Subjects depicted
Psychedelic Art
Music
Concerts
Psychedelia
Jeff Beck
Ten Years After
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1718-1991

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Record createdMarch 2, 2009
Record URL
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