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Oil on canvas
Dimensions tbc
This painting was made as part of my MA and has been in storage. It combines imagery from David’s painting from the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, The Death of Marat, 1793. This painting features a real life event, the murder of Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution shortly after his death. I find work which acts as a historic document to be interesting. I spoke to someone who knew this image from a book cover with no correlation to the events around Marat, or the work of David. I have always enjoyed reinterpretation through Art and often lift and shift imagery to new contexts. In this case I wanted to explore the notion that its new context was devoid of political meaning. At this time I was combining imagery drawn in Las Vegas of broken signs and the Neon Boneyard. The aesthetic of the original graphic signs, no longer in use infers past times, a pre digital era where vice and consumerism were hand made to some extent. In making this work I question which elements or narrative are dominant.
Oil on canvas
Dimensions tbc
This painting was made as part of my MA and has been in storage. It combines imagery from David’s painting from the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, The Death of Marat, 1793. This painting features a real life event, the murder of Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution shortly after his death. I find work which acts as a historic document to be interesting. I spoke to someone who knew this image from a book cover with no correlation to the events around Marat, or the work of David. I have always enjoyed reinterpretation through Art and often lift and shift imagery to new contexts. In this case I wanted to explore the notion that its new context was devoid of political meaning. At this time I was combining imagery drawn in Las Vegas of broken signs and the Neon Boneyard. The aesthetic of the original graphic signs, no longer in use infers past times, a pre digital era where vice and consumerism were hand made to some extent. In making this work I question which elements or narrative are dominant.