‘New Image’, alternatively called ‘New Image Painting’ or ‘New Image Art’ and ‘New Wave Painting’, is contemporary art’s unsung ‘painting backlash’ movement of the 1970s and 1980s which art history has registered, but is still trying to survey properly. This pivotal movement in fact awaits a major reassessment in order for critics and valuers to inform history better. It challenged conceptualism’s and minimalism’s 20th century draining of visual art’s spirit and function head-on, and paved the way for Brit Art to emerge and to enjoy humour and full human expression once more (Brit Art became a new generation ‘conceptual art’ – one which subverted the original values and ‘codes’ of the authentic movement – both of which are outside the story of this website).

1     ‘The Middlesbrough Mona Lisa’. (Subtitled, ‘Madonna Under The Bridge’. Further subtitled, ‘The Middlesbrough Madonna’. And further subtitled, ‘What’s A Nice Girl Like You Doing In A Place Like This?’) 1994. Lithography print, Conte crayon and acrylic with cigarette attachment on paper. 86 X 64cm.

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2     ‘Localism’, MIMA, Middlesbrough, 2015-2016 (for painting’s stat’s see below).

3 & 4     Details in two halves: ‘If That’s What They Call Art!…’ 1982. Oil & charcoal on canvas. 258 X 150cm.

5     ‘If That’s What They Call Art!…’ II. 1983. Oil, charcoal and picture postcard attachments on canvas. 210 X 155cm.

6 & 7     Additional paintings to help explore the above idea. c1984. Acrylic, Conte crayon and picture postcard attachments on paper. Approx A3 size.

8    ‘To Marton Sixth Form College.’ 1982. Oil, sand, charcoal, wax crayon and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes’ cockrell logo attachment on canvas. 178 X 133cm.

9     ‘At The Table With Alan and Eric.’ (Subtitled, ‘I Don’t Know Much About Art, But I Know What I Like.’). Degree Show, Maidstone College of Art, Kent, July,1983. Oil on canvas. 104 X 148cm.

10     Mid-Career Retrospective Exhibition, Python Gallery, Middlesbrough, May, 2015.

11     Completed form of the above painting, autumn 1983.

12     ‘The Teessider.’ II. Oil and charcoal on canvas. 147 X 142cm.

13     ‘The Teessider.’ II. Work in progress, Maidstone College of Art, early 1983.

14 – 16    ‘The Teessider.’ II. Cleveland Art Society’s, Smoggies Allowed In An Art Gallery exhibition, The Heritage Gallery, Middlesbrough, 2016.

17     ‘Alan Has.’ 1981. Oil on canvas. 147 X 142cm.

18     ‘Alan Has.’ Mid-Career Retrospective Exhibition, The Python Gallery, Middlesbrough, 2015.

19 – 22     ‘Billie Jean.’ 2018 (resurrected 1985 idea). Emulsion, acrylic, oil & charcoal with audio cassette attachments on canvas. 229 X 127cm.

23 – 32     ‘Today.’ 2018 (resurrected 1982 idea). Emulsion, acrylic & oil on canvas. 152 X 198cm.

33     ‘At the Table with King John’. 1982. Oil with Christmas wrapping paper on canvas. 122 X 166cm.

34     ‘The Only Thing That Matters’. 1982. Oil on canvas. 176 X 112cm..

35 & 36     ‘Eastender’. 1982-96. Oil, sand & charcoal on canvas. 150 X 180cm. (John Bartlett/Alan Morley collaboration).

37 – 38     ‘The Poolster’. 1981-2018. Oil & charcoal on canvas. 218 X 112cm. (Completed after nearly 40-years of being in storage).

39     ‘The Teessider’. 1981. Oil on canvas. 105 X 150cm.

40     ‘Lover’s Lane’. 1985. Oil on board. 61 X 91cm.

41     ‘Not Serious Enough to be Good Art’. 1993. Acrylic & oil on canvas. 118 X 86cm.

42 – 49     ‘The Only Thing That Matters’. 1982. Oil on canvas with stuck-on magazine and newspaper cuttings.

50     ‘Pseudo History’. 1981 (coming soon to this page).

51    ‘Warpaint’. Degree Show student I.D. board (attached to the wall leading into the student ‘Final Show’ exhibition at Maidstone College of Art, summer 1983).