Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a novelist, playwright, painter, poet, short story writer, designer and war artist. His best known works include the Gormenghast trilogy and his illustrations to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Alice in Wonderland and The Hunting of the Snark.
Val Denham is visual artist from Yorkshire, England. Always refreshing and unconventional, Val is best know for his record covers for Marc Almond, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV.
Survival Research Laboratories was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since its inception Survival Research Laboratories has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare.
For over 16 years, Abdul Haqq has contributed to the science fictive creeds of Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Underground Resistance and others by creating visual worlds that are synonymous with Detroit techno. A conceptualist and futurist, Haqq's role as the Ancient is affirmation of the fact that we do hear and see sound.
Alfred Wallis was a Cornish fisherman and artist. He painted his seascapes from memory, in large part because the world of sail he knew was being replaced by steamships. Having little money, Wallis improvised with materials, mostly painting on cardboard ripped from packing boxes, using a limited palette of paint brought from ships chandlers.
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