Posted on Mon, 13 Apr, 2015
Posted by Peter

Part of the love for vinyl is in the aesthetic of the sleeve, the design, the artwork.

Vinyl lover and artist Keith Haynes took his passion for music and art to the next level, and produces wonderful vinyl themed artwork:

“When growing up, vinyl albums and record sleeves were my idea of art, and designers like Jamie Reid, Barney Bubbles and John Maybury were my inspiration. In today’s world of digital, downloadable music I felt it timely to remind ourselves of the physical experience of beautiful, black vinyl”.

Keith Haynes graduated from the Harrow School of Art with BA Honours.

He joined the BBC where he worked as designer and director on some of the most important arts programmes of the past twenty years including Arena, The Late Show and Rock Family Trees.

In 1993 some of this work was included in an ICA exhibition on avant-garde film and television.

Keith is a massive vinyl collector and has a huge private collection, and will only cut vinyls that are either scratched/unplayable (often he needs to clean and polish them up to hide scratches), or are bootleg versions. For example, one of his most popular series, God Save The Queen (using the Sex Pistols single of the same name), he often uses a bootleg A&M vinyl, as the original and genuine versions are some of the most sought after and collectable records around fetching 5 figure sums. There are a number of bootleg versions of this piece, but it seems rather apt to use them with the ‘no rule’ ethic of the Pistols!

To find out more, or to purchase Keith’s work, head to The Drang Gallery

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