Shane MacGowan is perplexed and surprised by the positive reaction to his first London show. “I was overwhelmed by everything,” he said Observer.
His name is synonymous with living life to the fullest, but this month, the famed former frontman of The Pogues revealed a hidden talent for painting. Now 64, he learned that his Knightsbridge Gallery had sold almost all of the works on display and extended the exhibition.
MacGowan may be new to the art world, but when it comes to celebrating gallery openings, the singer is back home. “I laughed there [in London], but the simplest things, such as a decent breakfast, were hard to come by. I met a lot of people after a long time. The night on the town with Kate Moss ended uncharacteristically late, despite MacGowan’s wheelchair and frail health. He doesn’t usually like being told he’s good at things, but he’s starting to like the idea that his art is good.
Back in his apartment in Ireland, MacGowan speaks candidly about the violence that surrounded him during his childhood and its place in his art. His visual influences include Caravaggio and the Impressionist school, he says, but he considers himself “a realist who doesn’t paint very well.” “I am a really primitive artist. MacGowan is also delighted to be nearing completion of an album with Irish band Cronin.
According to Clark, the drawings sold at breakneck speed in the first few days of his show at the Andipa Gallery, including one by Grace Jones that Moss purchased. she says “And a band called Fontaine DC bought Shane’s portrait of Bono so strong, almost aggressive, that they became an all-Irish band.” Visitors to the show will notice that many images are already gone. “We don’t do any printing, so only one person can have a piece. Shane doesn’t like repeating the same thing.”
Clark says the discipline in her husband’s studio is non-existent. “He doesn’t have a studio, he doesn’t have a discipline. He works mostly with watercolors and acrylics and inks, but he finds like my lipstick. He also uses materials. Like his mood.” to, it varies.
The couple suddenly have supply problems. Most of his paintings were painted by MacGowan during his travels in his 80’s and are now priced from £2,000 to £28,000 for him, but are running out of stock.
“At that time, he was painting everywhere,” Clark says. “Restaurant menus, hotel room service his cards, receipts and bank statements. Not even the walls have ever been on canvas.”
Born in Kent on Christmas Day 1957, MacGowan is best known as an unruly elf who duets badly on Fairytale of New York. He’s now a reluctant, but seasonal fixture, like Mariah Carey in a “sexy Santa” suit. However, he is also recognized as a great songwriter and author of his versions of powerful covers of traditional Irish ballads. With The Pogues he produced five seminal albums, threw drunken riots and established himself as a legend in the music industry. “But I’m not a mythical creature,” he says. “I am very human. I am a primate. Person of.”
He says MacGowan began drawing when he was a toddler and started drinking soon after. His early sketches concerned the game of hurling, a lively Irish sport that has been compared to hockey. It’s just a martial art. ”
The singer believes he had a wonderful childhood “despite the violence”. was. Back in Dublin, his father took care of their coats. They wore her dusters knuckles and didn’t like a fair fight. ‘ His father and his pregnant mother, after marrying at Tipperary, came to England and went to Kent, where his father’s sister, an aunt, ‘stood for us’.
A brief stint at London’s hallowed Westminster School, where Clark says he was bullied, was followed by a period of confinement for mental health problems. Most recently, MacGowan got into what she describes as a depressive “tailspin” after her fall in which he got stuck. Shortly after, her mother’s sudden death followed. He didn’t want to talk or meet people. It went on for years. ”
A slow return to making music with Cronin, a family band from Mullingar, restored his interest in life. The drawings that Clark suggests are further evidence of his constant need to express himself artistically. When you let your creativity shine, it becomes an unstoppable force. ”
Many of the paintings are violent, as MacGowan’s friend Johnny Depp points out in an expensive book that accompanies the show and is sold on the musician’s website. Others are sexually explicit in innocent, streetwise ways. I have.
Religious motifs are embedded in his mind, says MacGowan. He feels no need to confess his sin. ”
He may have once impulsively painted, but it’s music that’s haunting him now. Drawing is more difficult. I am now in the late stages of recording an album with a new band and we have great chemistry. ”
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