ARTWORK DEPICTING LEGENDARY ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES TO BE UNVEILED

A trio of new artworks created by pop artist Morgan Howell FRSA, to mark 3 legendary Isle Of Wight Festival performances, are to be unveiled at this year’s event. The artist has produced 2 spectacular new silkscreen editions depicting David Bowie’s Rebel Rebel and The Rolling Stones single Brown Sugar. Bowie opened his memorable set – his last ever on UK soil – with the song at the festival in 2004, while The Stones performed their track on the Isle Of Wight 3 years later. Singer Mick Jagger also duetted with Amy Winehouse during his band’s headline performance with Amy also playing a solo set that year, which included her classic Back To Black. Morgan’s original painting of that song will also be shown to the public for the first time with a total of 20 pieces at the festival exhibition from 20th-23rd June 2024. The artwork, which contains a real piece of giant white vinyl in a distressed black canvas sleeve, was previously only seen privately at the recent global premiere of Amy’s biopic of the same name where it was admired by Amy’s father Mitch, the film’s director Sam Taylor-Johnson and soundtrack composers Nick Cave and Bad Seed Warren Ellis. The silkscreens feature up to 12 colours with a satin varnish and measure 1m square. They were printed by world-leading printmakers and publishers Coriander Studio, who work with the Godfather of Pop Art Sir Peter Blake and Damien Hirst. Morgan decided to release the silkscreens due to public demand for certain of his sold out original supersize paintings and artist’s editions. The Stones and Bowie artworks are the first in a series of releases marking classic singles. Both are printed on lush Saunders Waterford 425gsm paper but production numbers are strictly capped at 50. Morgan personally oversaw the production of the silkscreens at Coriander Studio’s famous HQ in South West London. He says:

“This is my third consecutive exhibition at the Isle Of Wight Festival and I wanted to mark it by producing works depicting three artists who played some of the most memorable shows here. “Amy, The Stones and Bowie are three of my favourite performers so it seemed apt to bring them to the island once more. My supersize paintings and editions of songs like Rebel Rebel and Brown Sugar sold out long ago and I wanted to make such titles available to more people as there was such demand. “This is also the first time fans outside of the world film premiere will be able to see Back To Black up close. I’d like to thank the festival’s mastermind John Giddings for asking me to the island once again.”

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