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FatBoy Slim
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FatBoy Slim

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FatBoy Slim
Why Try Harder, 2006
Original album cover artwork for FatBoy Slim's Greatest Hits album Why Try Harder, acrylic on stretched canvas, signed by artist with initials JAG [Julie-Anne Gilburt] in bottom right hand corner -- 36x35½ in. (91x90cm.); accompanied by alternate background artwork, acrylic on stretched canvas -- 39½x39½in. (100x100cm.) and two title banners, one with album title Why Try Harder both -- 15¾x47½in. (40x121cm.) both on stretched canvas; and a letter from the artist and one from Norman Cook on headed paper FatBoy Slim DJ/Producer and general lush (5)
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This album artwork is synonymous with FatBoy Slim. As Norman Cook writes in the accompanying letter he wanted to ...re-cycle the fat kid image (my greatest visual hit!) The photographic image was first used on the cover of FatBoy Slim's album You've Come A Long Way, Baby, 1998, and Cook wanted to develop upon this widely recognised image for his Greatest Hits album Why Try Harder. The artist he commissioned, Julie-Anne Gilburt, elaborates in her accompanying letter In initial sketches and paintings we even thought of the fat kid with a skirt or even no pants! We also tried many different 'halo' ideas and backgrounds.... As Cook summarises Julie-Anne said she was proper good at painting angel wings and renaissance fresco's so off we went in that direction... The complete set of four canvases in this lot, when superimposed together form the recognisible cover for FatBoy's Greatest Hits album.
Cook concludes his letter We never found out who the fat kid in the picture was but to us he is an angel.