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Although well known as an English poet, who burst onto the popular scene around the 1960s and 1970s, Adrian Henri was also an artist whose work was exhibited at galleries both during his lifetime and after his death. He was fortunate to study art at Kings College, Newcastle under such noted tutors as Lawrence Gowring, Roger de Gray and Richard Hamilton. It was the mid 1950s and a new generation of “pop painters” was emerging and Adrian joined them enthusiastically, producing work that sometimes had a darkly surrealistic tone, while other pieces were of the amusing variety. As a self-confessed atheist living in a staunchly Catholic area of Liverpool he produced paintings that were designed to deliberately shock people.
Adrian’s roots could be traced back to Mauritius – his grandfather was from there. He was born in 1932, in Birkenhead, but the family moved when he was only 6 to Rhyl in North Wales. He enjoyed a grammar school education before going to Art College in the north east. He chose to return to the Liverpool area after that though as it was the only place he really w
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Adrian Henri
British poet and painter
Adrian Henri (10 April 1932 – 20 December 2000) was a British poet and painter[1] best remembered as the founder of poetry-rock group the Liverpool Scene and as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound, along with Brian Patten and Roger McGough. The trio of Liverpool poets came to prominence in that city's Merseybeatzeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s. He was described by Edward Lucie-Smith in British Poetry since 1945 as the "theoretician" of the three. His characterisation of popular culture in verse helped to widen the audience for poetry among 1960s British youth. He was influenced by the French Symbolist school of poetry and surrealist art.
Life and career
Adrian Henri's grandfather was a seaman from Mauritius who settled in Birkenhead, Cheshire, where Henri was born. In 1938, at the age of six, he moved to Rhyl.[2] He studied art at King's College (now Newcastle University) and for a short time taught art at Preston Catholic College before going on to lecture in art at bo
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About some Liverpools Scene Members: Adrian Henri
1st interview with Adrian Henri, 2nd interview with Adrian Henri, Poems, Paintings
Adrian Henri was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire in 1932.
He studied at Durham University where, in 1955, he received a degree in Fine Arts.
A poet and an artist, he made an important contribution to the dynamic artistic life of Liverpool in the 1960s. He was one of the Liverpool poets, with Brian Patten and Roger McGough. In 1963 he was one of the founding members (with McGough, John Gorman and Mike McCartney) of the musical group that became the Scaffold, which went on to record many singles, several of which were hits.
In 1967, he founded the poetry/rock group Liverpool Scene and, in 1973, he was a founding member of the Grimms which presented a mixture of poetry and songs, recording several albums.
Publications of his poetry include Tonight at Noon (1968) and City (1969). He is also a successful artist and was, from 1972-81, president of the Liverpool Academy of Arts.
He has exhibited paintings both nationally and internationally; his fi
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