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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 48 W x 35.8 H x 0.6 D in
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The name Ricky Rat actually originated when my father and step-mother took me to Disney world as a 11 or 12 year old. I remember my dad loosely developing a Mickey Mouse anti-hero of sorts (probably to distract himself from the saccharine surroundings. Unfortunately, he also had an onset of (too much of a good thing) gout upon our arriving in Orlando. *I have since suffered gout as an adult, and i must say, as bad tempered as he became, it was bloody heroic in the circumstances. I'd certainly have been more murderous, possibly opening fire on the Disney Noon Parade My father started out as an anti-apartheid cartoonist during the late 70's and throughout the 80's which were an incredibly tumultuous, violent and bloody time in South Africa. Roundly known as the dangerous cartoonist in South Africa during that period, his biting satire sparing no one... but it was his draughtsmanship that was truly remarkable. Working on this painting, i was really doing something a little similar- using Mickey Mouse as a concept, a metaphor of sorts , well, i suppose as a framing device for the media trope, but it's broader than that of projecting a facade.. one of godly moralism, squeaky clean ethics and genetic elitism. Under which bubbles the reality of encouraged sociopathy, a society in which millionaires are what define success and what it took to get them there is defined as genius. -Lefty Fitzroy 2022
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:48 W x 35.8 H x 0.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
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•AFDA film school , Cape Town •Brief period spent as prostitute •Once ran into a guy from my junior school (years later when visiting Cape Town from London) who would pull out my hair, knocked me unconscious several times a week, and perpetuated so much hatred towards me i can still feel it 20 years later. Ran into him in a bar. I decided to be the bigger person . Then he called my friend a kaffer. Ive never stamped on someones head before or since but hopefully he's dead. Cuz if he is , it means i got away with it. •ST MARTINS ART SCHOOL. decided that a conveyer belt non kosher sausage factory claiming art school status was not a healthy choice for my soul Did have sex with a few young women who i found annoying. Always felt bad. About that. Still do. •SIR JOHN CASS SCHOOL OF ART shot speedballs in the bathroom, made friends with the Whitechapel prostitutes but had • Andrea Medjesi- Jones as a tutor as well as •Mike Stubbs. •Was given the space , opportunity and support to find my way. •Started making pretty not bad art. Fell in love with painting. •The heroin and crack didnt help. The jazz did but one without the other would have felt like half-arsed pretension. •Lived in Berlin for a while. •Found the best sexual partner i had ever encountered. Pity we hated eachother. •read some Will Self •pseudonymed myself. Sounds dirty i know but only if you ask for your mums help • REBRANDED •paid whatsername messy bed to turn me neon. Oh, yeah, Tracy Ermine Furs Neon worked . Sold lots of art but couldn't get caught in the rain. It rains sometimes in london. Reassessed •went broke • "performed" in 2 council flat pornos • changed appearance and REBRANDED • moved around so much have acquired an excruciating actors accent In which certain words are effected by certain languages. • euro/world trash tongue does seem to ingratiate you with other actors. I've had parts in 3 major blockbusters without having ever heard ,SOUND rolling, background ACTION aaàaaaand ACTION! Buy a painting . There are drawings too . Invest in the indefinable.
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