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A MONTH OF SUNDAYS Opens at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum on Saturday 15th December 2007
An artist whose patrons include Noel Gallagher of Oasis and guitarist Jamie Cook of The Arctic Monkeys has been wowing visitors to 20-21 Visual Arts Centre with his amazingly vibrant and humorous images.
McKee’s inspiration comes from what he calls the ‘Golden Age’ of working class life in the late 1960s and early 1970s and shows normal working class people ‘doing what they do’. The exhibition called ‘A Month of Sundays’ features paintings that hark back to a time before shell suits and plasma screen TVs, Playstations and mobile phones. Through his perceptive humour, Pete portrays a wistfully nostalgic world of workingmen’s clubs, run down seaside towns and lost youth. These captivating paintings are both amusing and poignant. They convey a sense of pathos and melancholy, the loneliness of old seaside towns in winter and cafes with grey net curtains. ‘When you’re a child the seaside is a magical place full of noise and fun, but when you get older they just smell of hotdogs. The seaside town comes into its own out of season. Then, the food stalls have closed, the masses have all gone home and all that’s left is you, the wind and the odd tea room’. Recently Pete’s work was exhibited in The Gibson Guitartown charity appeal which involved some of rock’s biggest names including Rod Stewart, New Order, Ozzy Osbourne and Cliff Richards – who all had a 10ft replica guitar hand painted in the theme of their choice by an artist of their choice. Noel Gallagher chose Pete… Pete was making tea in the kitchen when the call from Noel Gallagher came. Pete had sent the multi-millionaire musician an example of his work and Noel was phoning up to say how much he like it and how good it would look on the wall of his new house.
During their conversation, Pete mentioned that if ever the Oasis star needed any artwork for album covers or publicity, he was the man to do it. Five minutes later, Gallagher rang back and asked if Pete would paint a similar picture on a 10ft model guitar for the Gibson Guitartown charity appeal. Pete’s work was shown alongside some of the UK’s leading artists such as Sir Peter Blake who created the Sergeant Pepper album cover, Quentin Blake, the artist famous for illustrating Roald Dahl’s books and Gerald Scarfe, the artist renowned for his caricatures of political figures. The ‘A Month of Sundays’ exhibition runs until 16th February 2008. For further information contact: Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum |
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