Ian mccausland biography
Ian McCausland
Australian visual artist (–)
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Ian McCausland (31 March – 9 August ) was an Australian artist best known for his music posters.
Career
Ian McCausland began his visual arts career in after winning a competition in Go-Set, an Australian music magazine.[1] After Go-Set closed in , Philip Frazer took several of their creative team to a new political publication called The Digger, including McCausland as Art Director.[1]
Following the closure of The Digger, McCausland worked for Planet, a weekly music newspaper which was started by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans.[1] The newspaper ran for two years until ,[2] but its founders formed Mushroom Records and McCausland joined them as the label's Art Director and designed their logo.[3][1] His first work was The Great Australian Rock Festival, Sunbury , a triple LP recording of the Sunbury Pop Festival.[1] He went on to design album covers for Skyhooks, Daddy Cool, Chain, and Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, and the tour poster for The Rolling Stones Australian tour.[1]
Although McCausland designed artwork for The Rolling Stones' album Goat's Head Soup the artwork was lost in the mail.[4] A commission for their next album was rejected, with the band instead going with Andy Warhol.[1] McCausland also created the title design for the Australian film Dogs in Space.[5]
McCausland died in August [6] His work was previously featured in Ed Nimmervoll’s book Under the Covers,[7] and has been featured in exhibitions of music posters.[3][8]
References
- ^ abcdefg"Meet McCosmic!". I Like Your Old Stuff. Retrieved 19 September
- ^Nichols, David (). Dig&#;: Australian rock and pop music, . Portland, OR. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
- ^ abEdgar, Ray (14 November ). "Shape: Designs for life". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 September
- ^"The artist who found himself rolling in cash". The Age. 23 February Retrieved 19 September
- ^"Ian McCausland". BFI. Archived from the original on 9 February Retrieved 9 February
- ^Gallagher, Alex (10 August ). "Australian visual artist Ian McCausland, who illustrated for the Rolling Stones and Skyhooks, has died". NME. Retrieved 19 September
- ^Nimmervoll, Ed (). Under the covers&#;: the music graphics of Ian McCausland, Graeme Webber & Steve Malpass. Performing Arts Museum. Melbourne, Australia: Electronic Pictures. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
- ^Murfett, Patrick Donovan, Andrew (13 October ). "Sticky Carpet". The Age. Retrieved 19 September : CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)