Steve Coulter is 45renegade
Artist | Art Design & Rock Music Critic | Writer & Content Creator
West Sussex, United Kingdom
Visual Art
I create large-scale recreations of iconic ’70s and ’80s punk rock and new wave single sleeves and album covers, transforming these legendary designs into vibrant pop art pieces. Working at 600mm scale, these bold paintings function beautifully as standalone statement pieces or framed gallery works that adapt to any space. The scale and artistic approach make these works likely unique on a global level.
Writing Projects
Art Pop / Pop Art
My in-progress book explores the fascinating intersection between an art school education and rock music success. Currently featuring an introduction and fifteen draft chapters (available as blog posts), each chapter examines individual artists and traces their art school backgrounds or connections to specific art movements.
I welcome your erudite feedback on these artist studies as the project develops.
Art & Design Writing, Retrospective Reviews
I write in-depth reviews of historically and culturally significant single and album releases also notable events from music history. As my style develops combining music, cultural events and art genres it’s been recently described by a follower as ‘Mojo for the masses’. So if you enjoyed OG Seventies NME, Sounds and Q Magazine in the Nineties – or any other music publication please take a look. They’re signposted RETROSPECTIVE. I really enjoy the research and golden nuggets that are revealed.
Politics, Philosophy and Economics Articles
From a young age I’ve been interested in politics, economics and the heavyweight current-affairs television of the Seventies and Eighties like Panorama, World in Action, The Money Programme, and Weekend World, fronted by the likes of John Pilger, Michael Jay and Brian Walden. In recent years I’ve delved into “renegade economics”, from Levitt and Dubner’s Superfreakonomics to Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers and The Tipping Point. I now write long-form pieces on current affairs in the UK and, increasingly, the US, aiming for the tone and calibre of the Sunday Times magazine.
This website serves as the central hub for all my creative work and ongoing projects.
Shipping, Art and Writing Commissions: Please contact me. I regret that due to restrictive legislation I can no longer supply physical artwork to countries in the European Union including Northern Ireland.
Commissions or Say Hi
Mobile: +44 (0) 7407 038877 (+WhatsApp)
e-mail: steve@stevecoulter.co.uk
