Blue Poles: Reimagined
£20,000 (inc. VAT)
275cm x 150cm (108″ x 59″)
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Blue Poles: Reimagined is a scaled recreation of one of Jackson Pollock’s greatest (and last) drip paintings. Famously bought, amid much controversy, by the Australian National Government in 1973, the original Blue Poles is one of the most iconic abstracts of the 20th Century.
Attempting the impossible
I don’t know of any other artist who has attempted this. In fact, I did it back in 2016 when I first got approached to recreate the original. Back then I painted two versions which are now in the hands of a Pollock collector and a famous rock star.
Ten years on in November 2025 I got asked by a new client to do the same again. So, I committed to the project and began planning two more versions of Blue Poles. Only this time, a decade later, I have grown as an artist, and my material technologies have leapt forward and this has allowed me to reimagine the original Pollock masterpiece in ways I never thought possible.
More accurate, more authentic and yet, still carrying my own unique and distinctive style. Time to queue up the best roll of canvas I can buy, the most faithfully reproduced enamel paints I can source and spend the next four months (and 72 individual paint sessions) reimagining an icon.
Colour and shape reproduction
I have written extensively on how colours are chosen, how Pollock’s layers are broken down and all that technical stuff on a page dedicated to the original project back in 2016. You can read more about the Jackson Pollock Blue Poles project here, so as not to fill up too much space on this page as we have plenty to talk about already.
One of the most important elements in Blue Poles: Reimagined are the poles themselves. In this version I have changed the ratio of the original so the client could fit his version into his home, so the first challenge is to get the poles both anatomically and positionally correct. Their relationship to each other (angles, distance etc) have to be kept accurate otherwise the whole thing fails. These are the anchor points that reference the whole compositional arrangement. Fuck those up and you may as well go home.
You can see the early shapes in the photos below. I’ve had to go back over them several times during the four months of painting, and this is something that Pollock would had to have done too.
Additional photos
Below is a small selection of some of the creative processes that went into recreating Blue Poles: Reimagined, as well as me standing in front of the real Jackson Pollock in London back in 2016.
I’ve used digital projection mapping on a few occasions to help me place certain components, cross-referenced six publications packed full of photos and printed plates, printed 65 A4 sheets detailing how I layered up the 2016 versions and used 13 litres of paint across two canvases.
Sticks, ladles, spoons, brushes, shot glasses, sponges and rags have all been used and is in keeping with the tools that Pollock would have used creating the original (minus the broken glass and cigarette butts!).
This is the most accurate, faithful and respectful recreation of Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles that has ever existed (well, and the one the client has of course). Prove me wrong and I’ll buy you a drink…
