Sixties Graphics at the Victoria & Albert Museum

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Sixties Graphics at the Victoria & Albert Museum
Michael English and Nigel Waymouth UFO Mark II, 1967 Poster for UFO at 31 Tottenham Court Road, London. © V&A Images.



LONDON, ENGLAND.- This summer the V&A will celebrate the 1960s with a display of graphic material including posters, magazines, photographs, album covers and other printed ephemera such as badges from 1965-1972. Sixties Graphics will focus on the huge explosion of talent in London in the mid-sixties, the era of Swinging London. The display will chart the emergence of ‘counter-culture’ , the ‘underground press’ and the full flowering of Psychedelia.

On show will be key works by Peter Blake and many of the most celebrated posters by artists Nigel Waymouth and Michael English (who worked together as Hapshash and the Coloured Coat), Martin Sharp and others, together with iconic images of music heroes of the day, such as Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Also included will be graphics for ‘underground’ gatherings, together with colourful posters advertising the legendary music and light events at clubs such as UFO and Middle Earth.

Graphic work for now rare ephemeral publications such as Oz and International Times, will chart the revolutionary artistic and political ideas of the day, revealing the heady mix of idealism and visual experimentation that characterised the world of the underground press.

Many highlights of the exhibition come from the exceptional collection formed by Barry Miles, a key figure in the 1960s and founder of Indica Bookshop, the unofficial headquarters of the London alternative scene .

Sixties Graphics will also record the crucial part that the V&A’s own groundbreaking exhibitions, Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau (1963) and Aubrey Beardsley (1966) played in the Art Nouveau revival of the sixties – a rediscovery that exerted a powerful influence on many of the best designers of the rising generation, changing for ever our perceptions of the importance of graphics. Drawing upon the V&A’s magnificent graphic design collection, the display will document some of the most important artistic, cultural and social aspects of this vibrant era.










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