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Check out these amazing prints from Studio 89's exhibition

Love Supreme features artwork of Prince, Diana Ross and more

If you're unfamiliar with it, Studio 89's the intimate UK party that started in a basement of a gourmet Cardiff takeaway in 2011, since moving onto Brunswick Social Club in Bristol and The Colombian restaurant in London.

Fabric resident Craig Richards played at the third birthday last year, with other guests including Horse Meat Disco's Severino, Honey Dijon and Chicago disco spinner Michael Serafini.

Almost nearing their fourth year, the Studio 89 crew are putting on an exhibition, Love Supreme, at Simple Things Festival in Bristol, running from October 22 to 25.

Work on show, created by Cardiff artist Coke Oak, will be pop art-referenced images of some of soul, r'n'b and disco's key figures, from Prince and Sade to Diana Ross and a young Michael Jackson.

The team says: "Each image will be reproduced on a large acetate sheet that will be set on and lit up by a light box. Through presenting the work this way, Studio 89 want to extend the relationship between art and music beyond the symbolisms represented within the artwork itself and into the space surrounding the artwork.

"The experience of an intimate dimly lit space with unnatural lighting along with a carefully selected soundtrack will make Hours Gallery feel closer to a nightclub environment than a conventional exhibition space."

Love Supreme opens on October 22 (October 23 for the public) and you can see some of the work above, while Studio 89 welcome Thomas Bullock and Justin Vandervolgen to The Colombian on October 16.