{"id":11195,"date":"2012-03-30T03:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T02:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11195"},"modified":"2021-07-28T12:29:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:29:06","slug":"val-denham-album-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/03\/30\/val-denham-album-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Denham album covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Funeral In Berlin (1981) by Throbbing Gristle.<\/em><\/p>\n

British artist and musician Val Denham<\/a> was mentioned in yesterday’s post so I thought it worthwhile following up with a selection of the painter’s record sleeves. Denham’s art stood out for me when I first saw the cover of Throbbing Gristle’s Funeral In Berlin<\/em> album, and for its visceral immediacy this is still a big favourite. The early 1980s were the perfect time for Denham’s paintings to appear on record sleeves, the diminished area of CD packages providing a poor stage for work that’s this vivid and dramatic. Her associations with Throbbing Gristle extended to work with Marc Almond, a cover for the Some Bizzare compilation If You Can’t Please Yourself You Can’t, Please Your Soul<\/em> which featured ex-TG members Coil and Psychic TV, and further associations with Coil via allies Black Sun Productions. Many of these connections can be explored at Denham’s detailed website which has a great gallery section<\/a> showing work in a variety of media from the past thirty years. Her art is surreal, intense, often disturbing, and deeply personal in its exploration of shifting gender boundaries. Isn’t it time someone published a Val Denham book?<\/p>\n

Some cover samples follow. More can be seen at the artist’s website.<\/p>\n

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Untitled (1982) by Marc and The Mambas. Design by Huw Feather.
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Torment And Toreros (front, 1983) by Marc and The Mambas.<\/em> Design by Huw Feather.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Torment And Toreros (back, 1983) by Marc and The Mambas.<\/em> Design by Huw Feather.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Torment (12″ single, 1983) by Marc and the Mambas with The Venomettes.<\/em> Design by Huw Feather.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Black Heart (12″ single, 1983) by Marc and The Mambas.<\/em> Design by Huw Feather.<\/em><\/p>\n

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If You Can’t Please Yourself You Can’t, Please Your Soul (1985) by Various Artists. Design by Paul White and Phil Barnes.
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Visions Ov Anarcadia (2005) by draZen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Senmaida (2005) by Merzbow.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Once In A Full Moon (2006) by Black Sun Productions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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E Pee (2011) by Queen Lear.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The album covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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Funeral In Berlin (1981) by Throbbing Gristle. British artist and musician Val Denham was mentioned in yesterday’s post so I thought it worthwhile following up with a selection of the painter’s record sleeves. Denham’s art stood out for me when I first saw the cover of Throbbing Gristle’s Funeral In Berlin album, and for its … Continue reading “Val Denham album covers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,29,3,44],"tags":[2998,2272,3310,3559,1502,2016,1988,512,3554],"class_list":["post-11195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-electronica","category-music","category-painting","tag-black-sun-productions","tag-coil-group","tag-marc-almond","tag-marc-and-the-mambas","tag-merzbow","tag-paul-white","tag-psychic-tv","tag-throbbing-gristle","tag-val-denham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2Uz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}