PJ Harvey’s creative director Michelle Henning has won Art Vinyl’s Best Vinyl Art award for 2023.
“The first place artwork is a seemingly simple cover design for PJ Harvey’s tenth studio album I Inside the Old Year Dying by Michelle Henning that, in fact, couldn’t be less so. The final image is actually a result of months of preparation, awaiting perfect weather conditions and a combination of multiple photographs and techniques.”
Michelle Henning says, “I had a sudden realisation that I didn’t need a whole forest, I just needed one stick and such a simple single object would give it the feel of the classic album covers I admire. Now I realise an unconscious influence was Polly herself, because she had chosen to use drawings she had made of single twigs (“twiddicks”), to break up the sections in her poetry book Orlam.”
Read more about Michelle’s creative process.
