1 Martin Sharp (1942-2013) Australia. Jimi Hendrix (circa 1971) synthetic polymer paint on film between two sheets of perspex 101x115.cm
2 Linda Eastman (1941-98) USA. Jimi Hendrix live in Central Park, New York, 1963 black and white photograph
3 Dominic Joyce (b. ) UK acrylic paint on canvas, 84.1cmx59.4cm
4 Jackson Pollock ‘drip painting’ in his studio (1950s) photo by Hans Namuth.
A Joyce Morgan, smh.com.au (June 2012)
The image of Jimi Hendrix, his guitar exploding with red-hot energy, is propped on an easel in Martin Sharp's cluttered dining room. Assessing it across the table, Sharp is revisiting his celebrated work, whose riot of colour and exuberance defined the 1960s. The artist wants to fix the mistake he made when he portrayed the left-handed guitarist as right-handed."I didn't know whether he was right-handed or left-handed," Sharp says.It has bothered him for years that the image he traced from a photograph by Linda Eastman (later McCartney), and splattered with paint like Jackson Pollock, has never been printed how he envisioned it. Like many of his early works, he created it on the floor of The Pheasantry, the mansion in London's hip Chelsea that he shared with a cast of artistic, bohemian figures, including Eric Clapton, and which provided the creative, collective milieu in which he has continued to live….