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Down the tube 2 Published by Faine Contemporary Art 2011 (reworked in 2014)
'Down the Tube' is a celebration of London's cultural life as portrayed metaphorically by the underground stations that serve the centre of the city. The familiar chequerboard is filled with coloured circles bearing the names and livery of the main lines. e.g. The dark ultramarine of the Piccadilly line, the yellow of the Circle line or the red of the Central line. Each station has an image that is either relevant by association, location, or language, e.g. Baker Street has the front door of the house which Sherlock Holmes was supposed to have inhabited, Camden Town features a painting by Walter Sickert called the Camden Town Murder (a reference to Jack the Ripper?), while on the image on the Victoria line's light blue circle is a photograph of the face of Queen Victoria. Text is layered over the image with consecutive letters spelling an A to Z of London locations and a larger text with numbers reminiscent of representing the London postcodes. |
Canvases from 2014
