Peter Harris’s ‘Higher Powers’ exhibition with Live performance by Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Adrian Sherwood at Tabernacle, Powis Square, Notting Hill, London W12 2AY
Exhibition runs until Thursday 8 October ‘Higher Powers’ is an innovative collaboration between Musician Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Producer andMixologist Adrian Sherwood, and Artist Peter Harris.
This unique event will consist of a live performance with interactive VJ, film screening and art exhibition. Legendary Jamaican musician and reggae Pioneer Lee Scratch Perry hardly needs an introduction.
Grammy-award winning Perry reigned supreme over the Golden Age of 70’s reggae, writing and performing some of the most seminal albums of the seventies, such as ‘Super Ape’ and ‘Roast Fish, Collie Weed and
Corn Bread’.
Peter Harris is an Artist and Filmmaker who has collaborated with iconic musicians such as Siouxsie Sioux, The Stranglers and David Bowie. Adrian Sherwood is co-founder of Carib Gems and Pressure Sounds, and his most well-known label is On-U Sound Records where he worked with Prince Far I.
Sherwood began working with Perry in 1986, and together they produced the classic album “Time Boom X De Devil Dead”.
The ‘Higher Powers’ interactive art and music event will take place at iconic West London venue the Tabernacle, which played a pivotal role in the 60’s underground, 70’s punk and reggae crossover, the growth
of Notting Hill carnival and revival of ‘Cool Britannia’.
Perry will perform songs that relate to themes from Harris’s film ‘Higher Powers’. A ‘VJ’ will respond with live visual interpretations of Perry’s songs, created by Harris and animator Llyr Williams using video collage and special effects. Perry will be supported on stage by Sherwood, who will provide a live mix as Perry completes a large painting with Peter Harris.
As well as the live event, this will also be the first opportunity to see new paintings by Harris and Perry, alongside a series of drawings produced by the Artist and Musician. The incredible collection of drawings were created in 2007, when Harris spent time in Perry’s artistic hideaway in the mountains outside Zurich, a kind of European version of his infamous ‘Black Ark’ studio in Jamaica. Together they made some truly visionary artworks, based on Harris’s drawings around themes central to the ‘Higher Powers’ film such as; destiny, fate, luck and doubt. In an explosive collaboration between Artist and Musician, Perry lent his own visionary input to Harris’s graphic, accomplished pen and pencil drawings. The result is a series of one-off artworks produced in a similar way to the automatic drawings of the Surrealists, with a hint of Primitivism, the magic of Voodoo, and the spirit of urban graffiti Artists. Limited edition prints will be available, signed by Perry himself.
Ticket price: £20 Tickets available from seetickets.com or ticketline.com
Websites:
www.leescratchperry-peterharris-art.com
www.peterharrisart.co.uk
