Muse 'Absolution' by Storm Thorgerson

 

I’m a great fan of Storm’s work and have been keen to get more examples onto the walls of Hypergallery.

 

In case you aren’t familiar with him or his prodigious output of music related art, you can read the Wikipedia entry here.

 

Three years ago Storm suffered a stroke and his recovery from that life threatening illness has been remarkable. Considering that a stroke affects the brain, it certainly doesn’t seem to have affected his creativity or his artistic temperament!

 

So it was with interest that I read that Muse have been voted best British band at the annual NME Awards last night. These awards are one of the few to be exclusively voted for by the public and the band beat favourites Oasis and Arctic Monkeys to the winning post.

 

Storm created the covers for Muse’s 2003 ‘Absolution’ album, 2004 ‘Butterflies And Hurricanes’ single and 2006 ‘Black Holes and Revelations’ album. They are all great pieces of work and typical of his art. In Storm’s words:  “we give performances... not unlike the musicians for whom we work, be they on the stage or in the studio, up to and including various computer drop ins and repairs. But ours are visual - they are done for the camera, otherwise no one would ever see them.”

 

Apart from the twelve Pink Floyd album covers we did with Storm and his involvement in the Led Zeppelin covers, I have now published nine other pieces on the Hypergallery site, including ‘Absolution’.

 

I’m sure that ‘Black Holes and Revelations’ will find its way onto fine art paper at some point in the future, we must just be patient.