Adrian Henri
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Adrian Henri (10 April 1932 – 20 December 2000) was a British poet and painter best known for his contribution to the Liverpool Scene and as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound, alongside Brian Patten and Roger McGough.
The trio of Liverpool poets rose to prominence in the city's Merseybeat zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s.
Edward Lucie-Smith, a British poet who died in 1945, was described as the "theoretician" of the three species.
His portrayal of popular culture in verse helped to broaden the audience for poetry among 1960s British youth.
He was inspired by poetry and surrealist art from France's 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, he came to Rhyl at the age of six. He studied art at Newcastle and taught art at Preston Catholic College for a short time before heading to lecture in art at both Manchester and Liverpool Colleges of Art. He was closely linked to other artists of the area and the period, including Neville Weston and experimental artist Keith Arnatt. In 1972, he received a major award for his painting Meat Painting II – In Memoriam Rene Magritte in the John Moores competition. He was president of the Merseyside Arts Association and Liverpool Academy of the Arts in the 1970s and served as an honorary professor of John Moores University in the city. Henri had a 10-year friendship with Carol Ann Duffy, who later became the UK's Poet Laureate. Both girls met when she was 16 and lived together until 1982. Henri married Joyce once, but the couple later divorced. He had no children. Catherine Marcangeli was his partner for the last 15 years of his life. His career spanned everything from artist and writer to instructor, rock-and-roll actor, playwright, and librettist. John Lennon, George Melly, Allen Ginsberg, Willy Russell, John Willett, and Paul McCartney could be one of his acquaintances. Unlike McGough and Patten, Henri returned to London and remained in Liverpool, saying there was no place he loved better.
His many publications include The Mersey Sound (Penguin, 1967), McGough and Patten, a best-selling poetry anthology that brought all three of them to wider notice, Collected Poems, 1967–85 (Allison & Busby, 1994), and Not Fade Away (Bloodaxe Books, 1994).
He was the leading light of a band called the Liverpool Scenery, which released four albums of poetry and music. He started playing washboard in Newcastle's Skiffle Group, 1955. He was a firm believer in live poetry reading, and he read his poetry at a variety of venues, as well as hosting poetry workshops at colleges and colleges. In 1996, one of his last major poetry readings was at the launch of The Argotist magazine.
Henri was elected first president of the National Acrylic Painters' Association in 1986, a post he held until 1991, after which he became the first Fellow and Patron until his death in 2000.
He died in Liverpool, aged 68, after never fully recovered from a stroke he had suffered two years before. Liverpool City Council gave him the Freedom of the City in recognition of his contribution to Liverpool's cultural scene the night before his death. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool.
"If you believe you can do it and you want to do it," he said in his early philosophy.
Adrian Henri, a British artist, was released in 2012. Total Artist focuses on Henri's work from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as capturing some of the moment and rhythm of the British art scene at this period. Henri was at the forefront of a distinct yet highly linked counter-culture, giving the opportunity to consider his embrace of total art as a model for interdisciplinary art practice. The Exhibition Research Centre, Liverpool John Moores University, and Université Paris Diderot are among Occasional Papers, the Exhibition Research Centre, Liverpool John Moores University, and University Diderot.