This rare original collage Pop Art featuring Wildcat William Blanchard from The Who is a stunning piece of music memorabilia for fans of the punk/new wave genre. The artwork, originating from the United Kingdom, is autographed by the artist himself, adding a unique touch to this collectible item. Perfect for music enthusiasts looking to add a special piece of British music history to their collection.
Wildcat Will (real name William Blanchard) was born in Dorset in 1964 . Following secondary education, he briefly went to art school for a year in the mid-80s, lasting a year before dropping out to move to London to play drums for various musical acts.
Abandoning his art path for rock ‘n’ roll, he worked with a number of bands as a drummer, including Shakespeare’s Sister, where he met his long-term partner Siobhan Fahey. He stayed in the music industry for nearly two decades and continued to build his musical credentials, working with artists such as Beth Orton and Death in Vegas.
William Blanchard, or Wildcat Will as he is known, creates work of simplicity and ambiguity. An antidote to the buttoned-up, ’shiny facade’ of the corporation that the artist and art world has become.
The influences on Blanchard’s work are easily identifiable in the POP Art movement, from Paolozzi, Jasper Johns, Indiana, Rauschenberg, Peter Blake, Hamilton, Tilson, Peter Philips, Wesselmann, Oldenburg to Bermann, Cornell and Schwitters. The fact that they are so abundant in the artists work does not diminish or detract from it but instead highlights its brash influence and his appropriation. Taken as commercial reference to again comment and produce subjective sentiments on modern living.