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Rolling Stone gathers canvas
The art of Ronnie Wood is to come to Belfast
A portrait of music legend John Lennon by rock veteran Ronnie Wood is to go on display in Belfast.
The piece is one of a number in an exhibition of the Rolling Stone's artwork unveiled on Tuesday.
The touring exhibition, at the Tom Caldwell Gallery on Lisburn Road, has already been to New York and Hong Kong.
Best known as a guitarist, the rocker was born into a family of enthusiastic artists. The exhibition opens to the public on Wednesday.
As well as the former Beatle, who he knew when they both lived in New York, Jack Nicholson, Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison feature in the tour.
During the war, before the musician was born, the Wood family saw out air raids in a bomb shelter in the garden of their home in London.
His brothers, Art and Ted, would fill the hours by drawing, with their dad Arthur teaching them.
Ronnie Wood followed his brothers to art school and his first job was as a signwriter.
"I draw people whenever I can, in the studio, in the control room - when I get a bit of time I just do a quick sketch," the 57-year-old said.
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| February 17th, 2005 10:27 AM |
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check this link to see the paintings in the exhibit
http://www.tomcaldwellgallery.com |
| February 17th, 2005 10:28 AM |
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Man about town: Getting satisfaction from art of a Stone
Ian Hill
17 February 2005
When legendary rock guitarist Ronnie Wood told his fellow Rolling Stones that he was going back to his first love, namely painting, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman told him 'to leave it out and just play the guitar'.
For as any one of your elders and betters who remembers the 1960s will tell you, the standard route to fame in those days was to join a skiffle group (ask your dad), act the lig around an art college, then form a rock group. Ronnie's college was Ealing Art.
But he didn't take his mates' advice, and some of the fruits of his efforts, many of them long run prints which have been printed not by the artist, but for the artist, under his supervision, are on display in south Belfast's Tom Caldwell Galleries. This 'coup' is much to the satisfaction of their proprietor Chris Caldwell, a musician himself. But Ronnie, sadly, hadn't made it for the launch.
Mind you it seemed that, despite several red dots indicating works sold, this city's art establishment wasn't there in force either.
Major local painters were, in general, noticeable by their absence during Man About Town's visit. And of those amongst the Caldwell regulars who did show for the opening night, a number - including Goldsmith College of Art graduate Zarah Hunt and beautician Lena Gillespie - were much too young to know much about the Stones. Zarah's mum Pat, confessed she'd always preferred The Beatles. The Stones were considered 'bad boys' where she came from.
Art photographer Victor Sloan, just back from showing his own work alongside that of Micky Donnelly and John Byrne in Berlin, was certainly able to roll back the years. So too was photo-journalist Marty Nangle who could reel off the names of many a Stones' hit. His companion, Deirdre Seaby of the neighbouring clothes shop Déja Vu however, could manage just one: "I Can't Get No Satisfaction".
South African-born art entrepreneur Jonathan Poole and his publicist Martin Hunt of Tartan Silk PR were by contrast glowing with satisfaction.
Jonathan tours a stable of artist-rockers, managing the artworks of John Lennon, members of Bon Jovi's band and of Dire Straits, plus jazz trumpeter supreme Miles Davis.
Flashing his appropriately tartan, appropriately silk, jacket Martin confided that their next show with Chris Caldwell will be an exhibition of 'previously unpublished, un-retouched photographs of Marilyn Monroe, showing even the downy hairs on her skin'.
But there's only one way to check whether or not you can't get no satisfaction from Ronnie's images of the other Stones, plus the likes of Alex Higgins, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and Eric Clapton. It's to look in on 429 Lisburn Road before March 5. Or, of course, you could first click on www.tomcaldwellgallery.com.
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