Shane MacGowan Art For Sale

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Shane MacGowan's art has been described by the art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, as possessing a ‘demented, wild, fascinating, scabrous kind of energy’ who also describes the artist as the ‘Jackson Pollock of the Biro’. 

Executed in a variety of media, the works on paper predominantly feature coloured felt tip and biro, these highly idiosyncratic and sometimes disturbing drawings are scrawled and scribbled onto sheets of paper torn from foolscap jotter pads, hotel stationery and aeroplane sick bags, and were created largely whilst he toured the world with his band, The Pogues.

Some of the drawings directly refer to Pogues songs, such as Hell’s Ditch, the name of the band’s 1990 best-selling album. New York City Sky (1987) brings to mind the poetic Christmas ballad, Fairytale of New York, and Thai Boxers and Thai Teenybop (1990), the band’s single, Summer in Siam. Anger is an Energy (1986), a refrain from the PiL song, Rise, appears to ape the circular marks made by a Spirograph, albeit in a more irregular fashion. Another, Bono Drinking Guinness (2017) is a portrait of the lead singer of the band U2, a long-time friend of MacGowan, and Grace (19XX), a rendering of the model and singer, Grace Jones.

Our selection of Shane MacGowan original artworks for sale can be viewed in person at Andipa or via live video call or via our online private viewing room. Our approachable and friendly team are happy to discuss any matter of buying original Shane MacGowan art. Contact Andipa via sales@andipa.com or on +44 (0)20 7581 1244 or via the enquire button below.