Russell Young — Mick Jagger For Sale

Russell Young's Mick Jagger series applies his signature screenprint-and-diamond-dust technique to one of rock music's most enduring faces, continuing the artist's long-running examination of fame, image and the mechanics of celebrity that runs through his wider body of work. Young, who trained in graphic design, drawing, film and photography before working extensively in music video production, brings a photographer's eye for iconography together with a painter's command of colour and surface.

Working from silkscreen on linen, Young builds each Mick Jagger portrait as a unique impression rather than a standard numbered edition, meaning no two colourways are identical even when derived from the same underlying image. The series includes several titled variations — among them "Mick Jagger, Fur Parka" — produced across a range of palettes from stark black-and-white treatments to vivid reds, blues and metallics. Many, though not all, incorporate Young's signature crushed-diamond-dust surface, a technique he applies by hand to introduce a shifting, light-catching texture across the picture plane.

The works are typically produced at a large scale, most often 62 x 48 inches, aligning the series with the dimensions Young favours across his broader catalogue of celebrity portraits. Young has cited Andy Warhol as a formative influence and owns a printmaking press once used by Warhol, a lineage that is visible in the Mick Jagger series' engagement with repetition, colour variation and the transformation of a widely circulated photographic image into a singular painted object.