INSIDE THE WORDS OF STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN – SOLD
Year: 2007
Exhibited
2007 – 2009 The Led Zeppelin World Tour Exhibition. Curator: Steven Alderton, Director: Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW. Touring Australia
To Lucille Martin music was a balance to her conservative education in a Catholic Ladies College. Her introduction to the music of Led Zeppelin was a heady mix of passion and rock; stirring the hormones. “I rocked and sometimes rolled along to ‘Whole Lotta love’ in the 80’s as a point of rebellion while studying for my HSC.
“In the years that followed, growing up on the coastal city of Perth. Western Australia, my girlfriends and I would meet the guys from the neighbouring colleges driving around in their noisy VW’s (Voxwagon Stationwagons) from suburb to suburb coasting for waves. We were apprentice surfie chicks. Crammed eight to a car, girls sitting on the boys laps, arms slung around each others shoulders, a ‘Stairway to Heaven’ cassette tape blaring out from every window, all of us singing our lungs out.” said Lucille.
“We all knew the words were a promise to our future. We had been liberated from the generation of the 60’s , no wars to fight, just the expansion of freedom and a whole lifetime ahead of us. Those two songs were the only ones I knew, but Led Zeppelin, were poets to us, musical fortune tellers, experimenting with life and sharing their wisdom.”
Lucille’s artwork simply honours the words to ‘Stairway to Heaven’, and explores Plant & Page’s communion with nature. She is most concerned with how to support nature whilst we grapple with Climate Change. ‘Stairway to Heaven’ was the definitive cycle of birth, life and death – all things to all people, a lot like the Band. Why? Because, ‘it makes me wonder.’
Related Media
Exhibition Catalogue, The Led Zeppelin World Tour Exhibition, 2007 – 09
