Zacron is an English artist best known for designing the iconicLed Zeppelin III album cover[1] in the 1970s.
This album cover, most recently polled amongst the world's top four, is a small component of a vast and varied body of work spanning five decades, with much of his work having a close association to rock and roll.
The artist has been described as "multi-sided and multi-talented" with "a robust ethos of independence and bravery, a lifelong quest for knowledge". He is an advocate and activist, promoting the transformative qualities of art which have a capacity to unify human experience. His work tells stories about human experience through symbols, and his compositions often embody the wonderful quality of looking both ancient and futuristic simultaneously.
He writes for the BBC, "Ultimately, art impels us towards a whole-world consciousness. By extending beyond the self, art has the capacity to be a spiritual diviner."
Zacron has whole-heartedly embraced new media regarding it as an exceptional tool. His creativity and curiosity has taken him into many territories and he has made prolific forays into sculpture, philosophy, cosmology, critical writing, campaigning for freedom of expression and entrepreneurialism.
This text also forms part of an introduction to 'Let's Rock - The Art of Zacron' a major exhibition of the artist's work mounted at City Inn Birmingham December–April 2008 It was written by Meredith Gunderson who curated the exhibition and published by City Inn as part of the exhibition broscure.