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Greed [Dante's Car Park series] Painting
United Kingdom
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 23.6 W x 31.5 H x 0.8 D in
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I was reading Car Park Life by Gareth E Rees, which describes the weird and unspeakable acts that can and have occurred in car parks around the UK and it made me think of the the nine circles of hell in Dante's Inferno could be set in a multi-storey car park, where Dante and Virgil drive around the various levels and encounter contemporary folk that might be consigned to that particular circle of hell. Rather than paint anything figurative I painted the name of each level to resemble the supporting pillars of the car park, in keeping with my favoured wall textures. I showed the series in an exhibition in Brixton Library and had a box for visitors to post suggestions for who they would consign to what circle. My suggestions were: Limbo - All of us, put here by David Cameron Lust - Maybe we'll find the carnal malefactor Boris Johnson here trying to recall all of the children he has fathered. Gluttony - Maybe we can see the attendees of the Downing Street lockdown parties Greed - All the CEOs of the energy companies, the Bezos' and Musk's Anger - Priti Patel full of wrath and hate for, well almost everyone. Heresy - Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most unchristian of so called Christians? Violence - The LA Police, Putin... Fraud - All members of the current and recent Tory Cabinet's Treachery - Liz Truss and her fossil fuel cronies quest to continue to destroy not just the UK but the world
Original Created:2022
Subjects:Abstract
Materials:CanvasPaperAcrylicGraphite Powder
Mediums:AcrylicGessoGraphite PowderPaper
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:23.6 W x 31.5 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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ARTIST STATEMENT "If These walls could talk" Maybe they can. Maybe the layers of peoples lives and the grime of modern living on our walls can tell us tales. That's where my fixation with walls lies. How to represent time in a painting. For what do walls do? Protect us, contain us. They keep you out and me in [or vice versa]. They separate us, divide us, imprison, exclude. They are scarred by shrapnel, daubed with slogans, art and pollution. They are repossessed and condemned and gentrified. It started with taking photographs of them but as they started to be replaced with more and more glass and interesting ones became harder to seek out I started creating my own. On, wood or canvas, with sand, plaster, wood, paint... and, sometimes, gold leaf to fill the cracks where the ills of the world reside I want to make art for the lovers of the derelict, forgotten places. For those that prefer to lurk in the liminal edgelands, where the city meets industry and countryside. For those who see art in the buffed out graffiti, vandalised spaces, rusting metalwork, the ghost signs and the palimpsest of peeling paintwork. You might call them deskilled haphazard juxtapositions or naive abstraction. Maybe urban minimalism or post-vandalism. I like to make something that is taxonomically awkward! Consequently you're as likely to find me in a hardware store buying materials than an art supplies shop.
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