BIOGRAPHY

Lester Square is an artist/musician who emerged from the melting pot of what Pete Frame called ‘The Art School Dance’ of the 1970s to forge a career in both fields. At Hornsey Art School, he cut his musical teeth as a founder member of Adam and the Ants and went on to co-found The Monochrome Set. In the field of the visual arts, he is art consultant to The Princes Teaching Institute and continues to work in both figurative and non-figurative styles.

 

Much of his output has been in collaboration with other artists such as the Arts Council sponsored INTERPLAY performance art group. 

 

Commissioned works include:

Freelance design and illustration (he received commendations for record sleeve designs in the Rock Yearbooks for 1981 and 1983). Publications include THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY MAGAZINE, ARTS REVIEW, FLEXIPOP, LOOKS, BLUE JEANS, LES INROCKUPTIBLES (France), ID and VOGUE (Japan).

Public sculpture for Hammersmith Council, 1975.

Set construction for productions of SOLITAIRE at Sadlers Wells and THE FOUR SEASONS at the Paris Opera, 1978.

Set designs for productions of DREAMDATE at the Theatre Royal, Stratford (1985) and CROWN OF THORNS at the Theatre Royal, Stratford and The Royal Victoria Docks (1987).

 

Exhibitions/art performance events include:

WHAT MAKES EVERY HOME SO APPEALING? at the Hornsey Gallery, 1975 (with Adam Ant).

THE TOURING THEATRE OF PNEUMATIC ART at the De Lantaren Art Centre, Rotterdam and at the Dutch Prime Ministerial inauguration celebration at the Rotterdam Stadium, 1978

CLOCKWORK GIRAFFE at the London Film Makers’ Co-op, 1980

PEOPLE IN A ROOM (as a guest of WIRE) at the Jeannetta Cochrane Theatre, 1981

GOODBYE MAGGIE at the Cut Gallery, Waterloo, 1990

POLITICAL CARTOONS at the Basement Gallery, Brixton, 1991

THE RAFT (as a guest of Philip Courtney) at Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge, 1992

POSITIVE ACTION at the Wellcome Institute, 1993

NOT HIROSHIMA at Chelsea School of Art, 1995

DESTROY (NEW WAVE DESIGN) at the Royal Festival Hall, 1998

GROUP SHOW at the Mall Galleries, the Mall

8 BALL at the PAC Gallery, Stanmore 2010

RESONANCES solo show at Mercer Chance Gallery, Hoxton 2015

SUMMER EXHIBITION at the Candid Gallery, Islington 2019

 

Television work includes:

THE FALL PF A QUEN OR A TASTE OF THE FRUIT TO COME Channel 4 1991

BREAKING THE MOULD: ART AND SPIRITUALITY BBC 1995

AMAZING SPACES Channel4 2014

RANKIN SHOOTS REMBRANDT BBC 2014