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Bowie - Earthly Messenger, Aylesbury
Photographs taken in Market Square, Aylesbury, in 2018, a few weeks after the unveiling of Andrew Sinclair's bronze statue of David Bowie — the first statue of Bowie anywhere in the world. The work stands against the back wall of the old Borough Assembly Hall, where Friars Aylesbury booked Bowie five times between 1971 and 1972, including the January 1972 show at which the Spiders from Mars effectively coalesced backstage and the Ziggy Stardust persona made its public debut. Speakers above the statue play a random Bowie track every hour from nine to nine. These images move between the wide composition and its details — the standing figure, the leaping Ziggy, the thirteen personas worked into the bas-relief, the starman engraved into the paving at its foot. A longer essay on the work appears separately in Galerio.
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Earthly Messenger
Earthly Messenger, Andrew Sinclair, 2018. Bronze, life-size. Market Square, Aylesbury, against the back wall of the old Borough Assembly Hall — where Friars Aylesbury booked Bowie five times in 1971–72.
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