Hacienda Daze throws itself into the heat and intensity of Manchester’s iconic nightclub. Colour blazes in fluorescent bursts, shapes collide, and forms pulse with the density of bodies pressed together, lost in music. Painted from recall and lived experience, the work celebrates nights charged with sound and movement—bands roaring through the speakers, crowds swaying in unison, maracas rattling, lights flashing, the sticky floor vibrating beneath dancing feet. It is memory made electric: a celebration of noise, sweat, rhythm, and the unforgettable energy of the city’s music scene.
The painting is made on a thick birch plywood board rescued from a pub refit in Stockport. A few holes remains in the surface—once used to pass ropes through for lashing the panel to indoor scaffolding—leaving a trace of its own utilitarian history within the new work.
