TEMPER
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Two layers of Gel Coat are painted into the mould tool – a specially designed material is blended to create the exact colour of vinyl giving the authentic look and feel of records for the frames.
Now, as the one of themost successful graffiti artists in the country, he has paved theway for a younger generation to take art off the street and into the galleries, having elevated it into a recognised art form that has progressed from the traditional stereotype of a hooded youth vandalising neighbourhoods with senseless abandon, towork that holds its place in a gallery on artisticmerit. “If you put a knife in someone’s hand, one personmight want to chop up onions with it, the other might want to attack you. There is not onementality for all” says Temper, who sees his difficult formative years as the key to his later success. “I spent 11 years doing illegal graffiti but I was the first one to takemy kind of work into a commercial gallery and I turned thewhole lot upside down.” Taking direct inspiration for this unique piece of art from the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band albumcover, hewill please his followers having drawn up amontage of previous characters fromhis other ‘cover:versions’ characters as well as newones specially created from themusical inspiration of his youth - Punk, Ska and Rock, all crowded into themonochrome background. Using his illustrative skills alongside a free-hand ‘traditional’ graffiti style, the detailed figurativework shows a characteristic dexterity and attention to detail. In Peter Blake’s original version the bandwas depicted posing in front of a tableau of celebrities and historical figures fromMarlene Dietrich to Oscar Wilde. In Temper’s version he replaces the ‘Fab Four’ with his signature B-boy characters, completewith an urban attitude, in a similar colour palette to The Beatles original cover. In the same way that the original Sgt Pepper albumwas considered as a template for the cultural typography of the 1960’s, so this dynamic and brave interpretation by Temper revitalises this iconic album cover to make it instantly relevant and modern. Made out of photocopy cut-outs, illustration, sketches, tissue paper, glue, poster paint, marker pens, and even the humble pencil, it was a risky move, but Temper succeeds in creating something truly different, with a graceful nod to the original’s unique place in rock history and album iconography.
2 3kg of resin with filler is spread over the painted area, and again left to dry.
A layer of fibreglass is inserted into the frame to give strength. 3
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