Keith Albarn
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Keith Albarn (born 28 January 1939 in Nottingham) is an English artist and the father of the musician, Damon Albarn and the artist, Jessica Albarn.
Albarn began researching pattern in the 1970s after he formed Vertex, a group made up of Keith Albarn, Jenny Miall-Smith, Stanford Steele, and Dinah Walker, that worked on the research, design and construction for the first 'World of Islam Festival' at the ICA in 1974 that later on became Islamathematica when displayed in Rotterdam. Vertex also worked on the exhibition "Illusion in Art and Science" that was shown at the ICA in 1976 and in New York in 1977 and which led to the book Illusion in Nature and Art by R. L. Gregory and E. H. Gombrich. He was co-author of 'The Language of Pattern: An Enquiry Inspired by Islamic Decoration' in 1974 and Diagram, The Instrument of Thought in 1977.
The exhibition began its life at the ICA in London in 1971 as the exhibition for the first World of Islam Festival. The concept was then picked up by the Museum Vorlandenkunde in Rotterdam, Netherlands, showing in 1973.
Meanwhile, Thames and Hudson published “The Language of Pattern” co-authored by the same group responsible for the exhibitions, Keith Albarn, Jenny Miall Smith, Stanford Steele and Dinah Walker.
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