120×100cm
Original decayed Decollage artwork of Ian Curtis using appropriated street posters and mixed media.
Made from appropriated street posters, print fragments, spray paint, marker and halftone portrait work.
The background is made up from different Manchester band posters ripped up to create the iconic Unknown Pleasures album cover. The surface has been worked forward and back - layered, torn, rebuilt - so the history sits in the texture.
Ian Curtis had a presence that didn’t need volume.
Stillness, intensity, truth - no performance, just reality.
His work and his voice didn’t ask to be understood, they demanded it.
The dripping crown marks that status - not celebrity, but influence.
In graffiti culture, a crown is earned through respect. Curtis earned his.
Look closely and you’ll find references to Joy Division, Factory Records, Manchester, and the weight behind the image.
Some details reveal themselves quickly. Others surface slowly as you live with the piece.
This artwork is no longer available.
It remains in the archive as part of the record of figures who changed the emotional language of music, permanently.
120×100cm
Original decayed Decollage artwork of Ian Curtis using appropriated street posters and mixed media.
Made from appropriated street posters, print fragments, spray paint, marker and halftone portrait work.
The background is made up from different Manchester band posters ripped up to create the iconic Unknown Pleasures album cover. The surface has been worked forward and back - layered, torn, rebuilt - so the history sits in the texture.
Ian Curtis had a presence that didn’t need volume.
Stillness, intensity, truth - no performance, just reality.
His work and his voice didn’t ask to be understood, they demanded it.
The dripping crown marks that status - not celebrity, but influence.
In graffiti culture, a crown is earned through respect. Curtis earned his.
Look closely and you’ll find references to Joy Division, Factory Records, Manchester, and the weight behind the image.
Some details reveal themselves quickly. Others surface slowly as you live with the piece.
This artwork is no longer available.
It remains in the archive as part of the record of figures who changed the emotional language of music, permanently.
