STICKMAN THE HIGH NOTES TOUR

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Trevor Stickel AKA Stickman: (b 1974)

Somewhere in between glamour, decadence and filth are the liminal space I paint, I live for. It is the smokey blues bar where the ghosts of Stevie Ray Vaughn haunt the high tops and Jim Morrison leans on the jukebox. I paint a world ordered by the mysticism and chaos of rock & roll, a cosmos and a refuge from the structures and strictures of traditional painting where legends live out their power and rebellion infinitely in my expression. My medium is the mythology of icons and the realms of opulence and obscenity they inhabited that shaped the grit of rock & roll.

The Rock genre was created on rebellion and a fight for freedom of expression – as an artist, which is something I will always champion. The visceral need to express the romance in the juxtapositions of these worlds drives me to make visual the landscapes and lore of rock & roll once relegated to the record player – to capture the transcendental euphoria of stumbling out of the Roxy and the Troubadour at dawn next to the immortal legends.