Peter Blake Pop Art Badges
Edition of 2000 (only a few hundred left of this popular edition). Each badge set comes boxed with a hand signed and numbered card by the Artist.
Limited edition Peter Blake Pop Art Badges designed exclusively for Pallant House Gallery. The designs of these four badges will be familiar to anyone interested in the Pop Art of Peter Blake. Blake has used badges in his work for more than 40 years, the most famous example being ‘Self Portrait with Badges’ held by Tate. Despite this he has, until now, never designed his own badges and he relished the opportunity of doing so.
Pallant House Gallery has an extensive collection of pop-art examples as part of it's Permanent Collection including The Beatles 1962, Roxy Roxy and Girls with their Hero by Sir Peter Blake. Further details about Pallant House and its collection of pop-art can be found at the Gallery's Website.
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Artists Biography
Sir Peter Blake was born in 1932 in Dartford, Kent. He studied at the Royal College of Art (1953-56), where his contemporaries included Frank Auerbach and Bridget Riley. He taught at the Royal College from 1964 to 1976, and has also taught at St Martin’s School of Art.
During the 1960s Blake became well known as a British pop artists, famous for his 1967 album cover for the Beatles’ 'Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band'. His paintings, which frequently used collage, included imagery from music posters and advertisements and often had a nostalgic element. He has also produced sculpture, engraving and prints, as well as commercial art including graphics and album covers.
In the early 1970s Blake used watercolour to illustrate Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and in 1975 was a founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists alongside artists such as Graham Ovendon. He was made a Royal Academician in 1981. He had a major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1983 and was also made a CBE the same year. He was knighted in 2002. More recently, Tate Liverpool put on another up to date restrospective of Blakes painting and 2D work in 2007.
