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* Mavericks - Lever Gallery, London, 2018. <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/dec/12/frankie-eurythmics-tina-turner-peter-ashworths-80s-pop-mavericks-in-pictures The Guiardian: Art & Design, "Frankie! Eurythmics! Tina Turner! Peter Ashworth's 80s pop mavericks - in pictures"]</ref> <ref>[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/news-in-pictures-thursday-december13-2018-x520mcmf0 The Times: New in Pictures, "Tina Turner and Bryan Ferry feature in an exhibition of Eighties pop photography at Lever Gallery in London"]</ref> <ref>[https://levergallery.com/blogs/whats-on/peter-ashworth-mavericks The Lever Gallery]</ref> <ref>[https://www.artrabbit.com/events/peter-ashworth-mavericks Mavericks: The Lever Gallery: Art Rabbit]</ref>
* Mavericks - Lever Gallery, London, 2018. <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/dec/12/frankie-eurythmics-tina-turner-peter-ashworths-80s-pop-mavericks-in-pictures The Guardian: Art & Design, "Frankie! Eurythmics! Tina Turner! Peter Ashworth's 80s pop mavericks - in pictures"]</ref> <ref>[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/news-in-pictures-thursday-december13-2018-x520mcmf0 The Times: New in Pictures, "Tina Turner and Bryan Ferry feature in an exhibition of Eighties pop photography at Lever Gallery in London"]</ref> <ref>[https://levergallery.com/blogs/whats-on/peter-ashworth-mavericks The Lever Gallery]</ref> <ref>[https://www.artrabbit.com/events/peter-ashworth-mavericks Mavericks: The Lever Gallery: Art Rabbit]</ref>


*Mavericks Photographic Show - The Gallery, Liverpool, 2018 <ref>[http://thegalleryliverpool.com/event/peter-ashworth-mavericks/ The Gallery Liverpool]</ref> <ref>[http://www.getintothis.co.uk/2018/06/peter-ashworth-mavericks-gallery-stanhope-st-liverpool/ The Gallery, Liverpool: Mavericks]</ref>
*Mavericks Photographic Show - The Gallery, Liverpool, 2018 <ref>[http://thegalleryliverpool.com/event/peter-ashworth-mavericks/ The Gallery Liverpool]</ref> <ref>[http://www.getintothis.co.uk/2018/06/peter-ashworth-mavericks-gallery-stanhope-st-liverpool/ The Gallery, Liverpool: Mavericks]</ref>

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Peter Ashworth
Self-portrait 2011
Self-portrait 2011
Background information
Birth namePeter Ashworth
GenresPhotography
Occupation(s)Photographer
Musician
Years active1979–present
WebsiteOfficial website


Peter Ashworth is an English photographer. Ashworth initially specialized in music photography, between 1979 and 2000. In the 1980s, he worked with many UK artists including The Smiths,[1] Depeche Mode,[2] Eurythmics,[3] Soft Cell,[4], Jimmy Page[5] [6] and The Associates.

He has also performed as a musician with various bands, including Marc and the Mambas (with Marc Almond), The Gadgets, and The The. In 1980, Ashworth—using his Triash pseudonym—was briefly a member of the band The The with Matt Johnson.[7] In 1982–1983, he played drums as a member of Marc and the Mambas.

He now works predominantly in fashion and style/culture photography,[8][9] working with fashion designers such as Stephen Jones, Basso & Brooke and Atsuko Kudo. He is known in part for his photography of fetish subjects,[10] [11] for creating sets and shooting on location using lighting techniques that explore the textures and cut of his subjects.[citation needed]

Ashworth’s work is featured in The National Portrait Gallery permanent collection archive, consisting of twelve images: Adam and the Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier; Annie Lennox - Eurythmics: Touch & Face to Face portrait; Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome; Soft Cell - Bedsitter & Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret; Associates - Sulk; Erasure - phone-booth; David Sylvian - portrait; Julian Cope - Saint Julian (album); Visage - debut sleeve; Steve Strange - portrait.[12]

Photography

Music

Ashworth’s work came to prominence in the 1980s when he worked with pop bands such as Soft Cell, Eurythmics and The Associates; rock artists such as The Clash, The Ramones,[13] The Cult, Tina Turner, Julian Cope and The The; post-punk band PIL with John Lydon; 80s-era New Romantic performers Visage and Steve Strange; and established artists such as Bryan Ferry.[14] [15]

Ashworth’s images have been used on album and single covers of the artists he has photographed, including Adam & The Ants’ Kings Of The Wild Frontier,[16] The Associates’ Sulk,[17] Soft Cell’s Non-stop Erotic Cabaret,[18] Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s Welcome to the Pleasuredome,[19] Visage’s debut album Visage[20] and Eurythmics Touch.[21]

Unusually for a rock photographer, Ashworth worked mostly with the large, square format Hassalblad cameras because, as he reasoned, ‘album covers are square’.[22]

Fashion

Through his initial work with musicians and designers in the eighties, Ashworth came into contact with fashion designers and moved into the area of fashion photography, working with designers such as British milliner Stephen Jones OBE, [23] [24] [25] [26] (both Ashworth and Jones working together with Visage and Steve Strange) [27]) - Jones using Ashworth’s portrait on his first business card in 1979.[28] [29]

Ashworth has also worked and with British fetish designers Murray & Vern, Basso & Brooke, and Atsuko Kudo.

Ashworth’s photographic work with the avant-garde performance artist and fashion model Leigh Bowery was featured in a 2012 celebration of Bowery’s life entitled Xtravaganza: Staging Leigh Bowery[30] [31] that was held at the Kunsthalle Wien museum in Vienna, Austria.

Musician

In 1980, Ashworth - using the pseudonym Triash - as briefly a member of the band The The with Matt Johnson, appearing on the single ‘Controversial Subject’ as drummer and vocalist.[32] In 1982–1983, he played drums as a member of Marc and the Mambas, appearing on their debut album Untitled and photographing the album’s cover[33]; and again as band percussionist and album photographer for their follow-up album, Torment and Toreros[34]

Ashworth was also drummer in The The’s Matt Johnson’s side project The Gadgets[35], who produced one album in 1983, The Blue Album.

Other

The ubiquity of Ashworth’s photographic work with music artists in the eighties led to him being mentioned in Mari Wilson’s UK Top 10 hit song[36] ‘Just What I Always Wanted’ [37] [38] (The lyrics also namecheck the song's writer, Teddy Johns, though 'Teddy' is often misheard as 'Tenney')[39]

“I've got a mink from Paris, a ring from Rome
A whole new wardrobe in my home
A tune from Teddy, an Ashworth snap
These are the landmarks on my map
I've got just what I always wanted”

Exhibitions

Solo

  • Mavericks Photographic Show - The Gallery, Liverpool, 2018 [44] [45]

Contributor

  • Street Style: From Sidewalk to Catwalk - V&A, London
  • Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones - V&A, London
  • The House of Annie Lennox - V&A, London
  • Otherness - Louis Vuitton Gallery, Paris

Books

Contributor

Selected album, EP and single cover photography

References

  1. ^ Rolling Stone magazine
  2. ^ Depeche Mode: All Music: credits
  3. ^ Sutherland, Bryony; Lucy Ellis (2002). Annie Lennox: The Biography. Omnibus Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-7119-9192-7.
  4. ^ Almond, Marc (2000). Tainted Life (Illustrated, revised ed.). Pan Books. ISBN 9780330372015.
  5. ^ Page, Jimmy (2014). Jimmy Page (Illustrated ed.). Genesis Publications. ISBN 9781905662326.
  6. ^ Jimmy Page: All Music: credits
  7. ^ Larkin, Colin (1995). The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music. Vol. 3 (2nd revised ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2190. ISBN 354063293X.
  8. ^ Davies, Hywel (2009). British Fashion Designers (Illustrated ed.). Berlin: Laurence King Publishing. p. 208. ISBN 9781856696333.
  9. ^ Steele, Valerie (2013). A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk (Illustrated ed.). Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300196702.
  10. ^ Colihouse: Fetish: Peter Ashworth
  11. ^ Steele, Valerie (1997). Fetish: fashion, sex and power (Illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195115796.
  12. ^ National Portrait Gallery: Permanant Collection: Peter Ashworth
  13. ^ Ramones single cover: Discogs
  14. ^ Liverpool Echo feature: "This one man photographed ALL these famous album covers": Bryan Ferry
  15. ^ Mavericks: Bryan Ferry
  16. ^ [1]
  17. ^ [2]
  18. ^ [3]
  19. ^ [4]
  20. ^ [5]
  21. ^ [6]
  22. ^ Peter Ashworth interview
  23. ^ Stephen Jones website
  24. ^ Google Books: Hats: Stephen Jones: Peter Ashworth
  25. ^ Stephen Jones CV: 1979
  26. ^ The National: How to Buy a Hat
  27. ^ NPG: Peter Ashowrth/Stephen Jones/Visage/Steve Strange
  28. ^ Shaper Of The 8os: Stephen Jones card/Peter Ashworth credit
  29. ^ Liverpool Echo: Peter Ashworth: Stephen Jones shop card
  30. ^ Leigh Bowery: Xtravaganza:(see ‘Featuring‘ for Ashworth credit)
  31. ^ Art Map: Leigh Bowery: Xtravaganza
  32. ^ Controversial Subject: credits
  33. ^ Marc & The Mambas: Untitled: credits
  34. ^ Torment and Toreros: credits
  35. ^ The Gadgets: The Blue Album: Discogs
  36. ^ Official Charts: Mari Wilson
  37. ^ Lyric Genius: Just What I Always Wanted
  38. ^ Peter Ashworth/Mari Wilson
  39. ^ Apple iTunes: Mari Wilson: biograpahy
  40. ^ The Guardian: Art & Design, "Frankie! Eurythmics! Tina Turner! Peter Ashworth's 80s pop mavericks - in pictures"
  41. ^ The Times: New in Pictures, "Tina Turner and Bryan Ferry feature in an exhibition of Eighties pop photography at Lever Gallery in London"
  42. ^ The Lever Gallery
  43. ^ Mavericks: The Lever Gallery: Art Rabbit
  44. ^ The Gallery Liverpool
  45. ^ The Gallery, Liverpool: Mavericks
  46. ^ Amazon: ‘Fetish: Masterpieces of Erotic Fantasy Photography’
  47. ^ National Portrait Gallery: Peter Ashworth: Adam & The Ants
  48. ^ National Portrait Gallery: Peter Ashworth: Visage
  49. ^ National Portrait Gallery: Peter Ashworth: Soft Cell
  50. ^ National Portrait Gallery: Peter Ashworth: Soft Cell
  51. ^ Liverpool Echo feature: "This one man photographed ALL these famous album covers"
  52. ^ National Portrait Gallery: Peter Ashworth: Eurythmics
  53. ^ Liverpool Echo feature: "This one man photographed ALL these famous album covers"
  54. ^ Google Play: Vermin In Ermine: credits
  55. ^ Vermin In Ermine: Discogs: credits
  56. ^ Liverpool Echo feature: "This one man photographed ALL these famous album covers"
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