Joy Division & Peter Saville CBE, Unknown Pleasure, 2024
£1,200.00
| Dimensions | 170mm x 92mm x 92mm |
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| Material | Engraved stainless steel with gunmetal finish |
| Edition of | 9 + 4 Artist Proofs |
£1000 + VAT
This edition will only be available until Friday 13 December, 5pm
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This cocktail shaker has been engraved with a version of the iconic album cover artwork designed by Peter Saville for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures released by Factory Records in 1979. The design is taken from a visualisation of data from a pulsar (a highly magnetised rotating neutron star) published in the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy, which Joy Division guitarist Bernard Sumner came across in Manchester Central Library.
Accompanying the cocktail shaker, Peter Saville proposes the cocktail an “‘Unknown Pleasure’. The ingredients are to be decided by the barman at any given moment.”
Four Artist Proofs of Unknown Pleasure, 2024, have been produced, two for Peter Saville and his studio, one for Peter Hook and we are delighted that one will reside in the Joy Division archive.
Peter Saville (b.1955, Manchester, UK) exists in a territory of his own, his practice can be located somewhere between art and design – merging aspects of both, his unparalleled approach has resulted in a unique contribution to culture.
This hybrid position came into being partly through the unprecedented autonomy afforded to him aged 22 as co-founder and art director of the legendary independent UK label Factory Records. Unlike most ‘commercial artists’ of the time and indeed since, Saville was free to design without approval. Making his art in the context of mass production he accessed an audience through cult pop music, best exemplified in the series of record sleeves he created for Joy Division and New Order between 1979 and 1993.
His radical designs seemed to break all the rules, sometimes omitting information about artists or titles, or employing visual codes, fundamentally questioning modes of consumption and communication. He cites Factory’s idealism, rather than any commercial objective that allowed him, and other influential Factory artists to communicate ideas, aesthetics and ultimately values to a formative audience.
The influence his work has amassed today may be anchored in its consistent invitation to interpret and think critically about the significance of what you are seeing in the visual information presented, arguably extending the scope of literacy, commonly only associated with the interpretation of text rather than image.
His achievements were celebrated in The Peter Saville Show at the Design Museum in London in 2003. His first major show in a contemporary art museum was at the Migros Museum in Zurich in 2005 and he continues to exhibit internationally.
His first monograph was published by Frieze, 2003. Saville has honorary doctorates from Manchester Metropolitan University and University of the Arts London, is a Royal Designer for Industry and in 2020 he was the recipient of the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) bestowed in recognition of the positive impact of his work.
Saville’s work is included in the collections of MoMA, SFMOMA, The V&A Museum (London), The Government Art Collection (UK), Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims).
Joy Division were an English post-punk band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.
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40 Years of the Future: Editions
In collaboration with Ryan Gander OBE RA (Castlefield Gallery Artist Patron), to mark Castlefield Gallery’s 40 year anniversary, we are delighted to present a new collection of limited-edition artworks.
40 Years of the Future: Editions are a limited series of beautifully engraved cocktail shakers, created with a group of celebrated, award-winning artists, who at the invitation of Ryan Gander have donated their designs in support of Castlefield Gallery.
40 Years of the Future: Editions artists are:
Ryan Gander OBE RA, Joy Division and Peter Saville CBE, Bob and Roberta Smith OBE RA, Shezad Dawood, Lindsey Mendick, Simeon Barclay and Hannah Perry.
The new editions were first revealed at Soho House x Castlefield Gallery, 40 Years of the Future: Lates, an event that brought together, in conversation, artists Ryan Gander, Peter Saville, Shezad Dawood, Hannah Perry and Simeon Barclay. At the event Gander shared his love of cocktails and his reasons for proposing a series of cocktail shakers. This included thoughts on cocktails – from how the invention of and mixing of them is akin to a creative act, to how they are often used to mark a moment. We are pleased to share with you an exciting opportunity, to be some of the first to collect new art from this exclusive and extraordinary limited-edition series.
