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One Saturday night in Barcelona, last summer, I felt compelled to snap these women on the last train home. I'd had a drink and was feeling brave. I pretended to be playing with my phone - I even risked taking a second photo to get their feet in!

It’s rude to stare and it's even ruder to take photos of people without their permission but how else am I supposed to capture people off guard?

I wonder what they would have done if they caught me? I'm curious how they would feel if they ever recognised themselves in this artwork?

The whole time I was painting this, I kept thinking about who they are, what their relationship is to one another and imagining the type of lives they lead.

Also, I've been speculating about how people will feel about this painting once this pandemic is all over? Being reminded about such a unifying moment in history – one that's hopefully changing the people of the world for the better!

So here these women are, displayed for the whole internet to see. Playing out their roles as caring citizens, wearing their disposable medical face masks, that also offer them a little anonymity.

Do you think drawing attention to these women and giving everyone the opportunity to stare at them, crosses a line?

Visit my blog to watch a time-lapse of me painting this piece! https://www.emmaplunkett.art/art-blog/art-studio-videos/

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Women on the Metro Painting

Emma Plunkett

Spain

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 31.9 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in

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One Saturday night in Barcelona, last summer, I felt compelled to snap these women on the last train home. I'd had a drink and was feeling brave. I pretended to be playing with my phone - I even risked taking a second photo to get their feet in! It’s rude to stare and it's even ruder to take photos...

Year Created:

2021

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Painting, Oil on Canvas

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31.9 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in

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Yes

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Not Framed

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Certificate is Included

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Emma Plunkett is a life long practising artist, known for her unique and expressive style. Her art often combines clean and vibrant fauvist colours and intricate pointillist details to create captivating and original compositions. From 1995 – 2020, Emma worked intensively as a VJ (video projection artist) under the name Miss Plunkett. Emma is of 100% Irish decent, born and educated in London. She has a degree in Fine Art from the University of East London. Throughout the 1990's and early 2000's, Emma put on events, exhibited her art and performed her live video mixing on the London club scene. In 2002, after short creative stints in Barcelona, Ibiza and then Amsterdam, Emma continued her journey south to the province of Granada, in the south of Spain. She continued to video project at festivals and party's, collaborating on a mobile dance space in an 11m dome, where she also created decor, installations. She exhibited her art on the Costa Tropical, Granada, Costa del Sol and in the local community of Órgiva. Emma ran the local art group, where she was putting on large group exhibitions in historically important buildings. Emma moved to Barcelona in 2020, where she now lives and works – concentrating on stoneware sculpture, video and oil painting. Emma has a life-long unwavering devotion to art. The underlying sentiment in Emma's artwork is about the female experience from a woman's perspective. Her work is ever evolving as she experiments and explores ways to portray the female body in a manner which is both genuine and empowering. Other themes include friendship, surrealist forms, painting views that she loves, florals, abstracts and single items from her life such as her bed, a croissant or even just a cup of coffee.

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