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Bullies in the Playground 12 Mono-prints on Canvas in different colour ways and varying sizes. Published by Faine Contemporary Art 2021
BULLIES IN THE PLAYGROUND My wife and I had to submit to total isolation for a couple of months during the pandemic due to pending operations . A concomitant of our remaing in lockdown was the viewing of several repeats of television dramas such as Mid Somer Murders. However, there were moments when the quality of an actor's craft shone through what may reasonably called a fairly pedestrian drama, when the delivery of words and phrases became memorable. The late actor Anna Massey provided me with the title and point of departure for this print when she she cooly informed Tom Barnaby (the dectective hero in the series) that he had no juristriction over a security MI6 case; saying, "you must understand Tom, we are the bullies in the playground". I often use overheared phrases as the starting point for an image, such as when Paul Duke asked my wife, "Jane what do you think about all this art malarkey"?. I have used variations of art malarkey as the title of a couple of prints and thought similrly that, 'bullies in the playground' would be a great title for an image that comtained a number of actual and fictional military, old school and club ties, particularly as these are the public symbols of institutions, which are often the breeding ground for us bullies. |
Canvases from 2021
