We remember the Joy Division frontman’s style, which rejected the artifice of rock and roll for the realities of everyday life
This is a Giclee print of an original pencil sketch of Musician Ian Curtis. It is A4 in size.
suicidewatch: Ian Curtis
Ian Curtis and Bernard Sumner
Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was an English musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the post-punk band Joy Division. Joy Division released their debut album, …
Russell MacEwan was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from the late 1950s to the early 1970s before passing away in 2008. Actually, that is not the Russell MacEwan we’re interested in today. That Russell MacEwan is a Scottish artist who is neither a politician nor dead and has produced a great deal of high-quality work of sci-fi subjects as well as portraits of postpunk and experimental music heroes. MacEwan is an extraordinarily skilled draftsman, as you can see for yourself, who is currently Professor Emeritus at the City of Glasgow College. Virtually all of his output is black-and white, and he works in oils, charcoal, and pencils—his pencil drawings often resemble sketches that on other days might get “filled out” to form a painting, but he just leaves it as is for the viewer to contemplate. The artist has mentioned that Joy Division is his favorite musical subject as well as the band he’d most like to be compared to, but he also has an abiding interest in the world of Coil, particularly How to Destroy Angels, the band’s first release from 1984. We’ve selected a few of the images of Curtis (whatever...
An evening of music and conversation to remember the Joy Division frontman.
18 December 1979: Les Bains Douches, Paris
Singer Ian Curtis , of English post-punk band Joy Division, in Manchester, 6th January 1979.
