DAN PEARCE Original Lenticular Mixed Media "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"

Artist: Dan Pearce

Title: Girls just wanna have fun

Medium: Lenticular on acrylic

Edition: Original, One of a kind

Artwork Dimensions: 74cm x 99cm (29" x 39")

Frame Dimensions: 85cm x 110cm (33.5" x 43")

Condition: Image: Good. Frame: Good, occasional mark. Small bump on the bottom of the frame. See photos.

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About the artwork

“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” sits squarely within Dan Pearce’s vibrant, celebrity‑driven street‑pop universe — a world where high fashion, pop culture, and urban graffiti collide with a sense of playful irreverence. In this piece, Pearce turns his attention to two of the most recognisable faces in modern fashion: Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, icons whose careers helped define the visual language of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Rather than presenting them in traditional portrait form, Pearce reimagines them through the lens of his signature aesthetic: monochrome glamour set against an explosion of colour. The figures are rendered with crisp, photographic clarity, while the surrounding space erupts into a riot of neon tags, hearts, peace signs, and graffiti‑style motifs. This contrast — poised elegance against chaotic colour — is one of Pearce’s most effective visual strategies, and it gives the work its unmistakable energy.

The Playboy‑bunny styling adds a layer of tongue‑in‑cheek theatricality, nodding to the way fashion, fantasy, and performance often blur in contemporary culture. It’s not a literal reference so much as a playful costume, a way of framing Moss and Campbell as both icons and characters within Pearce’s pop‑art narrative.

Across the composition, Pearce weaves in text — most notably the title “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, which anchors the work in a spirit of carefree rebellion. A smaller line, “I haven’t danced like that since last Friday”, adds a wink of humour, as though the artwork itself is in on the joke. These textual elements are typical of Pearce’s practice: they lighten the mood, invite the viewer closer, and give the piece a conversational, almost mischievous tone.

The result is a work that feels bold, contemporary, and knowingly glamorous — a celebration of two cultural icons filtered through Pearce’s unmistakable blend of street art, pop art, and high‑fashion attitude.

About the Artist

Dan Pearce is a leading figure in contemporary British pop and urban art, known for his bold fusion of street‑art energy, pop‑culture iconography, and high‑gloss mixed‑media craftsmanship. Based in London, he has built a distinctive visual language that blends graffiti textures, digital layering, hand‑finished detail, and a playful, often irreverent approach to celebrity culture.

Pearce’s work sits at the intersection of fine art and street culture. He draws heavily on the visual vocabulary of the city — spray‑paint marks, neon tags, stencils, collage fragments — and sets these against sharply rendered portraits of cultural icons. His subjects range from fashion legends and musicians to historical figures and modern‑day icons, each reimagined with a sense of vibrancy and attitude that has become unmistakably his.

A hallmark of Pearce’s practice is his mixed‑media construction. Many of his pieces combine digital composition with hand‑applied elements, resin finishes, metallic foils, acrylic layers, and, in some cases, lenticular technology. This gives his work a tactile, almost sculptural presence, with surfaces that catch the light and shift as the viewer moves.

Pearce’s rise has been fuelled not only by his technical skill but by his instinct for cultural storytelling. His artworks often carry a sense of humour or subversion — a wink at the absurdity of fame, fashion, and modern life. Yet beneath the playfulness lies a genuine admiration for the icons he portrays, and a desire to capture the charisma that made them unforgettable.

His work has been exhibited widely across the UK and internationally, and he has developed a strong collector base drawn to his combination of urban grit, luxury finish, and pop‑art immediacy. Pearce has also produced notable charity collaborations, further cementing his reputation as an artist with both cultural relevance and social conscience.

Today, Dan Pearce stands as one of the most recognisable voices in British contemporary pop art — an artist who brings together the glamour of celebrity, the rawness of street art, and the polish of modern mixed‑media technique into a single, cohesive vision.