The Horror! The Horror! The illustrations of Faris Badwan
A delve into the sketchbooks of The Horrors frontman.
While band The Horrors may be best known for post-Robert Smith barnets, impossibly skinny trousers and sounding-more-than-a-bit-like Simple Minds, it turns out frontman Faris Badwan is also pretty nifty at illustration.
The Sidcup-born beanpole studied at St. Martins College of Art, and has since created artwork for bands including Hatcham Social and The Charlatans, as well as The Horrors themselves.
Next week a show at London’s Strand Gallery will present a series of his sketches and doodlings, with the Creatures in Colour: Sketchbooks from Faris Badwan exhibition.
As well as his enormously detailed ink drawings, the show will also present a number of newer watercolour works, all taken from his trusty sketchbooks, large-scale reworkings of the pages and previously unseen acrylic pieces.
Badwan says, ‘I draw all the time and as a result the books end up documenting everything. Aside from the visual diary aspect Proud Gallery will be exhibiting new unseen paintings and drawings more focused around colour and technique.
‘There were ideas in the last exhibition that I wanted to develop and expand upon, and a lot of the mark-making in the new work is more expressive and intense.’
Creatures in Colour: Sketchbooks from Faris Badwan runs from 18 – 30 September at The Stand Gallery, 32 John Adam Street WC2N
https://proudonline.co.uk/search.aspx?searchTerms=faris+badwan,hi,i double check the website, some of artwork title name you post may be wrong. “Indian Chief” is “Indian Reservation”,”Sun City” is “American Dreaming” 🙂