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Waste Painting, by Peter Saville, 2001

Waste Painting

Peter Saville

2001

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

Dominant colour

Overview

Waste Painting is a 2001 by Peter Saville, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?
Peter Saville
When & what style?
2001
Where can I see it?
Victoria and Albert Museum

About this work

Peter Saville made *Waste Painting* in 2001. It’s a print, not a painting, and it looks like colorful waves moving across the page. The print is part of a fancy box set. Only 200 exist. It mixes art, photos, and fashion stuff from creative pros. This print shows Saville’s design skills. He did covers for New Order and Suede. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The story of this work

Overview

The print *Waste Painting #3* (2001) by Peter Saville, Paul Hetherington, and Howard Wakefield is an abstract composition resembling fluid waves of color, created through digital manipulation. It is one of 49 works included in a limited-edition box set published by SHOWstudio, which features contributions from various creative professionals. The portfolio, spanning art, photography, fashion, and ephemera, serves as a contemporary archive of image-making and multimedia practices. The print is signed, dated, and numbered by Saville.

Read the full account in the museum source.

About the artist

Artist

Peter Saville

Peter Saville’s print series Waste Painting covers blank canvases with splashes of color, a nod to the 1980s British art scene when he started.

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